Racism; public health crisis. Recognizesthat racism is a public health crisis in Virginia.
Equal Citizens Month. Designates November,in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Equal Citizens Month in Virginia.
Study; Department of Behavioral Health andDevelopmental Services; database of criminal justice, behavioral health, and other human services records; report. Requests the Departmentof Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a workgroup to study the feasibility of developing a secure, de-identified,renewable, and relational database of criminal justice, behavioral health, and other human services records to facilitate developmentof more effective interventions.
Minimum wage; farm laborers or farm employees. Eliminates the exemptions from Virginia's minimum wage requirements for (i) persons employed as farm laborers or farm employees and (ii) certain temporary foreign workers.
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribeof Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek CherokeeTribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
School personnel; school nurses. Excludesschool nurse positions from requirements for student support positions and instead requires each local school board to employ at least onefull-time equivalent school nurse position in each elementary school,middle school, and high school in the local school division. Thebill defines a school nurse as a registered nurse engaged in thespecialized practice of nursing who protects and promotes studenthealth, facilitates optimal development, and advances academicsuccess.
Secretary of Health and Human Resources; contractfor study of options for financing universal health care. Directsthe Secretary of Health and Human Resources to enter into a contractwith a qualified entity to study options for financing universalhealth care in the Commonwealth. The Secretary shall report the findings,conclusions, and recommendations of the qualified entity to the Governorand the General Assembly by December 1, 2021.
Access to firearms; cohabitants; civil penalty. Makes it unlawful for an individual residing or cohabitating with any person who such individual knows or has reason to believe is prohibited from possessing or transporting a firearm to allow such person access to any firearm. The bill requires such individual to store such firearm in a manner that is inaccessible to such co-resident. If an individual violates any provision of the bill and the co-resident uses such firearm during the commission of a crime, such individual will be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500, except for any crime committed against such individual. The bill further provides that an individual who lawfully possesses a firearm is not in violation of the provisions of the bill if he carries the firearm on or about his person or exercises control of the firearm.
Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; certain advertising related to school quality. Adds as a prohibited practice under the Consumer Protection Act the use in any advertising any information regarding the quality of any public or private elementary or secondary school other than information derived from the school quality indicators contained in the School Quality Profiles established by the Department of Education or information derived from the school's website or the website of the school's district, unless such advertising contains a statement, displayed on its face in a conspicuous manner, that such school quality information is not derived from the school quality indicators contained in the School Quality Profiles established by the Department of Education or endorsed by the Department of Education. The bill provides that such provisions shall not become effective unless reenacted by the 2022 Session of the General Assembly.The bill requires the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel (the Division), to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly for any legislation that the Division deems necessary to prevent the misleading or deceiving of consumers by the use of information in advertising regarding the quality of any public or private elementary or secondary school other than information derived from the school quality indicators contained in the School Quality Profiles established by the Department of Education or information derived from the school's website or the website of the school's district. The bill requires the Division to make its recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2021.
Common-law crime of suicide. Abolishes thecommon-law crime of suicide. Suicide is currently a common-law crimein Virginia, although there is no statutorily prescribed punishment.
