Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
Del. Briana Sewell
Sponsored bills
Commending Peter A. Blake.
Commending Scott McGeary.
Study; Department of Energy; local governments;purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department ofEnergy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchaseclean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their constituents. In conducting its study, the Department shall considerexisting ways for local governments to purchase clean energy andpromote access to clean energy for their constituents, evaluate barriersand develop recommendations relating to reducing such barriers forlocal governments to purchase clean energy and encouraging the purchaseof and access to clean energy by local governments and their constituents,and consult with relevant stakeholders as needed.
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
Celebrating the life of George M. Hampton, Ph.D.
Commending the Council of State GovernmentsSouthern Office.
Statute of limitations; medical debt; judgmententered for medical debt. Provides that the statute of limitationsfor an action on any contract, written or unwritten, to collect medicaldebt, including actions brought by the Commonwealth, is three years.The bill further provides that no execution shall be issued and noaction brought on a judgment, including a judgment in favor of theCommonwealth, rendered on medical debt after seven years from thedate of such judgment; where the medical debt incurred was for life-sustainingtreatment, no execution shall be issued and no action brought onsuch judgment more than three years from the date of such judgment.Under current law, the period within which such execution or actionshall be brought is 20 years in circuit court and 10 years in generaldistrict court.
Parking of vehicles; electric vehicle chargingspots; civil penalties. Prohibits a person from parking a vehiclenot capable of receiving an electric charge in a space reserved forcharging electric vehicles. A violation is subject to a civil penaltyof not less than $100 nor more than $250, and the vehicle may betowed or impounded.
Criminal sexual assault; definition of intimate parts; penalty. Includes in the definition of "intimate parts," for the purposes of criminal sexual assault, the chest, including the breast, of any person.