Del. Roxann Robinson

Celebrating the life of Joseph Maurice Tarantino.

Celebrating the life of Michael Wayne Woods.

Commending the frontline health care workersat Chippenham Hospital.

Commending the frontline health care workersat Johnston-Willis Hospital.

Name of redevelopment and housing authorities.Gives redevelopment and housing authorities greater flexibility innaming an authority.

Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be processedbefore election day and sorted and counted by precinct. Requirescertain actions to be taken to process absentee ballots that arereturned by mail before election day. The general registrar is requiredto examine the ballot envelopes to verify completion of the requiredvoter affirmation; mark the pollbook, or the absentee voter applicantlist if the pollbook is not available, that the voter has voted;and open the sealed ballot envelopes and insert the ballots in opticalscan counting equipment or other secure ballot container without initiating any ballot count totals. Current law requires only thatthe general registrar undertake at least one such activity beforeelection day. So that ballots can be separated from ballot envelopesand scanned, the bill requires that the office of the general registrarbe used as a central absentee voter precinct. The bill requires thatabsentee ballots processed at any central absentee voter precinctbe sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absenteeballot is assigned and that the resulting vote totals from such ballotsbe reported separately for each voter precinct.

State parks; lifetime senior parking pass.Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreationto establish a lifetime senior parking pass card that authorizesany person 60 years of age or older after paying a one-time fee topark at any of Virginia's state parks without being required to paya parking fee at any such park.

Worker classification; independent contractors. Provides that in a proceeding involving allegations of worker misclassification an individual or business is not considered an employee with respectto a hiring party if the person qualifies as an independent contractorrelative to the hiring party under the common law right-of-control test as established by the Internal Revenue Service Revenue Ruling87-41, by an applicable determination of the Internal Revenue Service,or if (i) the individual or business signs a written contract withthe hiring party stating that the individual or business is self-employedor is being engaged as an independent contractor and containing certain acknowledgments, (ii) the individual or business has the right to control the manner and means by which the final result of the workis to be accomplished, and (iii) four or more additional criteriaprovided for in the bill are satisfied. The bill also provides thata hiring party alleging that a worker misclassification claim isfrivolous or improper may file a motion to dismiss such claim. Thebill provides that a contract or written agreement expressly statingthat a claimant is not considered an employee is considered as primafacie evidence of a violation of frivolous pleading provisions.

Commending Richard D. Pillow.

Commending Colonel William Joseph Flanagan,Jr., USA, Ret.