Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy

Commending Robert Eugene Foster, Jr.

Celebrating the life of Alan Arnold Diamonstein.

Transit funding. Raises the existing regional transportation fee, a grantor's tax, from $0.15 per $100 to $0.20 per $100 for localities in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority that are also members of the Northern Virginia Transportation District. The bill requires half of the revenues to be deposited in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Fund and half to be deposited in the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Capital Fund. The rate of tax in the other localities will remain at $0.15 per $100, with one-third of the revenues to be retained by the locality to be used for transportation purposes and the other two-thirds to be deposited in the Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund. The bill also raises the existing transient occupancy tax in the localities located in the Northern Virginia Transportation District from $2 to $3, with all of the revenues from the tax being used to support WMATA. This bill incorporates HB 977.

Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the states exclusive and plenary authority to decide the manner of awarding their electoral votes. Under the compact, Virginia agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact goes into effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have joined the compact. A state may withdraw from the compact; however, a withdrawal occurring within six months of the end of a President's term shall not become effective until a President or Vice President has qualified to serve the next term. This bill incorporates HB 199.

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the swearingin of the first African American legislators to serve in the GeneralAssembly. Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the swearingin of the first African American legislators to serve in the GeneralAssembly and recognizes the individual legislators who served inthe House of Delegates and the Senate.

Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer with 25 employees or more from (i) requiring as a condition of employment that a prospective employee provide or disclose the prospective employee's wage or salary history, (ii) attempting to obtain the wage or salary history of a prospective employee from the prospective employee's current or former employers, (iii) requesting a prospective employee to complete an application for employment that includes a question inquiring about the prospective employee's wage or salary history, or (iv) asking a prospective employee in an employment interview any question intended to obtain information about the prospective employee's wage or salary history. Violations are subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $100 per violation. This bill incorporates HB 326 and HB 802.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.

Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related services for children 18 years of age or younger when a licensed audiologist prescribes such hearing aids and related services. The coverage includes one hearing aid per hearing-impaired ear, up to a cost of $1,500, every 24 months. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after January 1, 2021.

Renewable energy property tax credit. Establishes, beginning in taxable year 2020, a tax credit for renewable energy property placed in service. The bill defines "renewable energy property" as certain biomass equipment that uses renewable biomass resources, combined heat and power systems using waste heat to produce electricity or thermal or mechanical energy, certain geothermal equipment, hydroelectric generators located at existing dams or in free-flowing waterways, solar energy equipment, and wind equipment that is necessary for capturing and converting wind energy into electricity or mechanical power.The credit would equal 35 percent of the installed cost of the renewable energy property. However, the aggregate amount of credit allowed to each person for placing into service renewable energy property during the taxable year would not exceed $15,000. Only the ultimate consumer or user of the renewable energy property would be allowed to claim the credit.The credit would be required to be claimed in five equal annual installments beginning with the taxable year in which the property was placed in service. However, the amount claimed in a single year would not be allowed to exceed 50 percent of the person's total tax liability. The credit would expire and no further credit could be claimed if the renewable energy property was disposed of, taken out of service, or moved out of the Commonwealth during any of the installment years.The Department of Taxation would issue the tax credits. The Department would be authorized to issue $5 million in tax credits each fiscal year. Any unused credit could be carried forward for five taxable years. The credit would sunset in 2025.

Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act and VirginiaResidential Landlord and Tenant Act; required disclosures; impoundingstructures, dams, flood hazard areas, and stormwater management facilities.Requires the owner of residential real property who has actual knowledge thatthe property is located in one or more special flood hazard areas to provide adisclosure that states such information to a potential purchaser. The owner ofany residential real property upon which a stormwater management facility islocated is required to provide to a prospective purchaser a written disclosurethat includes specifications, requirements, and a schedule of audits of suchfacility. Such disclosures are to be made on forms provided by the Real EstateBoard on its website. The bill also requires the landlord of a dwelling unitthat has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit is on property that is locatedin a special flood hazard area to provide to a prospective tenant a writtendisclosure that states such information prior to the execution by the tenant ofa written lease agreement or, in the case of an oral lease agreement, prior tooccupancy by the tenant. Any tenant who is not provided the required disclosuremay terminate the lease agreement at any time within 60 days of discovery thatthe property is located in a special flood hazard area. The bill adds to therequired disclosures for the buyer to beware that the owner makes norepresentation with respect to the condition or regulatory status of anyimpounding structure or dam on the property or under the ownership of thecommon interest community that the owner of the property is required to join,and purchasers are advised to exercise due diligence in determining suchinformation.