Del. John Avoli

Commending the 29th Infantry Division.

Department of Education; school boards; guidelinesfor the provision of counseling services in public schools. Requiresthe Department of Education to develop and each local school boardto adhere to guidelines for the provision of counseling servicesin public schools, which shall include (i) provisions for parentalconsent; written parental notification; parental involvement, asappropriate; and confidentiality; (ii) procedures by which a parentmay limit or prohibit his child's participation; (iii) appropriateexceptions to the procedures by which a parent may limit or prohibithis child's participation such as imminent need, health, or safetyor maintaining order in the school; and (iv) any other provision deemednecessary by the Department.

Russia; boycott of goods and services. Encouragingall residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia to boycott all goodsand services originating in Russia.

Family life education programs; student participation; summaries. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary schoolstudent from participating in any family life education program withoutthe prior written consent of his parent. The bill requires the summarythat is required to be posted and distributed to parents for eachsuch program to include contact information for the individual oroffice responsible for maintaining printed and audio-visual programmaterials.

Celebrating the life of Thomas Patrick Burke,Jr.

Coastal Virginia Resiliency Authority; established.Establishes the Coastal Virginia Resiliency Authority (the Authority)as a body politic and corporate, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth.The bill provides that the Authority shall be governed by a 17 memberBoard of Directors as follows: (i) the Secretary of Natural and HistoricResources or his designee; (ii) the Secretary of Transportation orhis designee; (iii) the Chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture,Conservation and Natural Resources or his designee; (iv) the Chairof the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resourcesor his designee; (v) a member of the Senate appointed by the SenateCommittee on Rules; (vi) three members of the House of Delegatesappointed by the Speaker of the House; (vii) an Officer, defined inthe bill, from the each of the Hampton Roads, Crater, Richmond Region, Middle Peninsula, Northern Neck, and Accomack-Northampton PlanningDistrict Commissions selected by the Governor; and (viii) threenonlegislative members who reside in the Hampton Roads, Crater, Richmond Region, Middle Peninsula, Northern Neck, or Accomack-NorthamptonPlanning District Commissions appointed by the Joint Rules Committee.Certain portions of the bill have a delayed effective date of January1, 2023.

Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive communities colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law.

Certified pollution control equipment; certificationby subdivisions. Provides that for pollution control equipmentto be used as part of a political subdivision's water, wastewater,stormwater, or solid waste management facilities or systems, suchequipment may be certified by the political subdivision itself insteadof by the state certifying authority. This bill is identical to SB684.

Arab American Heritage Month. DesignatesApril, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Arab American HeritageMonth in Virginia.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Awareness Day.Designates October 4, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as InflammatoryBreast Cancer Awareness Day in Virginia.