Del. Kathy Tran

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; one-stop small business permitting program; guidance regarding responsibilities for maintaining a business. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to develop and provide guidance to businesses with newly approved permits regarding responsibilities and requirements for maintaining the business. The bill also requires regulatory agencies, by November 30 of each year, to provide the Department with information outlining any changes to the agency's policies and regulations. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2021.

Public institutions of higher education; in-state tuition; refugees and individuals with certain Special Immigrant Visas. Provides that an individual is eligible for in-state tuition charges regardless of domicile if he is admitted to the United States as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157 within the previous two calendar years or received a Special Immigrant Visa that has been granted a status under P.L. 110-181 § 1244, P.L. 109-163 § 1059, or P.L. 111-8 § 602 within the previous two calendar years, and upon entering the United States, the individual resided in the Commonwealth and continues to reside in the Commonwealth as a refugee or pursuant to such Special Immigrant Visa.

Telehealth services. Defines "telehealthservices" as the delivery of health care services, including telemedicineservices and other medical, emergency medical, and behavioral health servicesthat are not equivalent to health care services provided through face-to-faceconsultation or contact between a health care provider and a patient, throughthe use of telecommunications and information technology that supports thedelivery of remote or long-distance health care services. The bill requires theBoard of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medicalassistance services a provision for coverage of telehealth services. The billalso requires (i) requires the Board of Health to develop and maintain anEmergency Telehealth Plan as a component of the Statewide Emergency MedicalServices Plan, (ii) every insurer proposing to issue individual or groupaccident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical andsurgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; (iii) eachcorporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscriptioncontracts; and (iv) each health maintenance organization providing a healthcare plan for health care services to provide coverage for the cost of suchhealth care services provided through telehealth services.  The bill also requires the Secretary of Health and HumanResources to establish a workgroup to develop recommendations for innovative payment models that support the use of telehealth services andtelemedicine services in accordance with the Statewide Emergency TelehealthPlan including payment of the cost of transporting of a patient to adestination providing services appropriate to the patient’s level of acuity andin-place treatment of a patient at the scene of an emergency response or vialtelehealth services or telemedicine services where appropriate, and appropriateliability protections for health care providers providing services throughtelehealth services and telemedicine services. The workgroup shall report itsrecommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees onAppropriations and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committeeson Education and Health and Finance by November 1, 2020.

Economic development programs; reporting requirements.Eliminates the requirement that the Governor provide a biannualreport that includes information regarding grants and loans awardedfrom the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund during the immediatelypreceding six-month period for economic development projects to theChairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Finance andthe Senate Committee on Finance. The bill also clarifies the duedates for plans and reports to be prepared and submitted by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to various individualsand repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Commerce and Tradeprovide an annual report on the effectiveness of economic developmentprograms in the Commonwealth. The bill contains technical amendments.

Coal ash ponds; private wells and public water supply wells; resident notification. Requires a utility, defined in the bill as the owner or operator of a coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to complete a survey of all private wells and public water supply wells within 1.5 miles of each of its ponds by October 1, 2020, and to notify residents via mail and a local newspaper posting that the survey will be conducted.

Local school boards; support services positions; licensed behavior analysts and licensed assistant behavior analysts. Includes licensed behavior analysts and licensed assistant behavior analysts as support services positions in a local school division for the purposes of Title 22.1 (Education).

Schedule VI controlled substances; hypodermic syringes and needles; limited-use license. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to issue a limited-use license for the purpose of dispensing Schedule VI controlled substances, excluding the combination of misoprostol and methotrexate, and hypodermic syringes and needles for the administration of prescribed controlled substances to a doctor of medicine, osteopathic medicine, or podiatry, a nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant, provided that such limited-use licensee is practicing at a nonprofit facility. The bill requires such nonprofit facilities to obtain a limited-use permit from the Board and comply with regulations for such a permit. This bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to SB 1074.

School boards; duties; student transportation in certain cases. Requires each school board that provides for the transportation of students and that has established a rule, regulation, or policy to exclude certain students who reside within a certain distance from the school at which they are enrolled from accessing such transportation to establish a process for waiving, on a case-by-case and space-available basis, such exclusion and providing transportation to any such student whose parent is unable to provide adequate transportation for his child to attend school because the parent is providing necessary medical care to another family member who resides in the same household, as evidenced by a written explanation submitted by a licensed health care provider who provides care to such family member.

Collection of debts by hospitals affiliated with public institutions of higher education. Prohibits the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority and the University of Virginia Medical Center from participating in debt collection efforts pursuant to the Virginia Debt Collection Act or the Setoff Debt Collection Act unless all reasonable efforts have been made to determine if the individual with delinquent debt is eligible for financial assistance. The bill requires both hospitals to develop debt collection policies that adhere, at a minimum, to Internal Revenue Service policies regarding financial assistance by tax-exempt hospitals as they were in effect on January 1, 2020.

Green Job Creation Tax Credit; sunset date.Extends the sunset date of the green job creation tax credit from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2026. The bill contains technicalamendments.