Introduced Mar 9, 2018
1 co-sponsor
Total votes
9,228
all sessions
Attendance
99%
105 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
95%
of cast votes
Lower than 85% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 82% of chamber peers
Sponsored
368
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
0
assignments
368 bills and resolutions
Sponsored bills
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368
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Introduced Mar 9, 2018
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Introduced Mar 9, 2018
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Introduced Mar 9, 2018
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Education preparation programs; reading specialists, dyslexia.
Requires each education preparation program offered by a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education that leads to a degree, concentration, or certificate for reading specialists to include a program of coursework or other training in the identification of and the appropriate interventions, accommodations, and teaching techniques for students with dyslexia or a related disorder. The bill requires such programs to (i) include coursework in the constructs and pedagogy underlying remediation of reading, spelling, and writing and (ii) require reading specialists to demonstrate mastery of an evidence-based, structured literacy instructional approach that includes explicit, systematic, sequential, and cumulative instruction. This bill is identical to
Signed into law Mar 9, 2018
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Mar 9, 2018
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Mar 9, 2018
1 co-sponsor
Labor market information; transfer of administration from Virginia Employment Commission.
Requires the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (the Board) to advise and oversee the development of a strategic workforce dashboard and tools that will provide information on issues such as state and regional labor market conditions, the relationship between the supply and demand for workers, workforce program outcomes, and projected employment growth or decline. The measure also transfers from the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) to the Board, with support from VEC, the responsibility to determine and publish a list of jobs, trades, and professions for which high demand for qualified workers exists or is projected.
Signed into law Mar 9, 2018
0 co-sponsors
Health insurance; contracts with pharmacies and pharmacists, etc.
Provides that no provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent shall contain a provision (i) authorizing the carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy or pharmacist to collect, or (iii) requiring an enrollee to make, a copayment for a covered prescription drug in an amount that exceeds the least of the applicable copayment for the prescription drug that would be payable in the absence of this section or the cash price the enrollee would pay for the prescription drug if the enrollee purchased the prescription drug without using the enrollee's health plan. The measure requires provider contracts between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain specific provisions that allow a pharmacy to (a) disclose to an enrollee information relating to the provisions of this section and the availability of a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug; (b) sell a more affordable therapeutically equivalent prescription drug to an enrollee if one is available; and (c) offer and provide direct and limited delivery services to an enrollee as an ancillary service of the pharmacy. The measure applies to provider contracts entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2019. This bill is identical to
Signed into law Mar 9, 2018
1 co-sponsor
Introduced Mar 9, 2018
0 co-sponsors
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