Del. Dave LaRock

Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.

Constitutional amendment (second resolution);apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the VirginiaRedistricting Commission, a 16-member Commission tasked with establishing districtsfor the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the Houseof Delegates of the General Assembly. The Commission consists of eightlegislative members and eight citizen members. The legislative members consistof four members of the Senate of Virginia and four members of the House ofDelegates, with equal representation given to the political parties having thehighest and next highest number of members in their respective houses. Thecitizen members are selected by a selection committee consisting of fiveretired judges of the circuit courts of Virginia, from lists submitted to theselection committee by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the leader in theHouse of Delegates of the political party having the next highest number ofmembers in the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore of the Senate ofVirginia, and the leader in the Senate of the political party having the nexthighest number of members in the Senate. The Commission is required to submitto the General Assembly plans of districts for the Senate and the House ofDelegates of the General Assembly no later than 45 days following the receiptof census data and plans of districts for the United States House ofRepresentatives no later than 60 days following the receipt of census data, orJuly 1 of that year, whichever occurs later. The measure requires certain votethresholds for plans, depending on the type of district, in order to besubmitted to the General Assembly. No amendments may be made to a plan by theGeneral Assembly, and any plan approved by the General Assembly becomes lawwithout the signature of the Governor. The measure requires additional plans tobe submitted, or additional time to be given to submit a plan, in certaincircumstances, and further provides that districts will be drawn by the SupremeCourt of Virginia if such efforts fail.

Commending the Loudoun Literacy Council.

Commending JK Moving Services.

Commending the Loudoun County Office of Emergency Management.

Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosuresto school principals. Changes from discretionary to mandatory that the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriffof a county disclose to a school principal all instances where ajuvenile at the principal's school is a suspect in or has been chargedwith a violent juvenile felony, an arson offense, or a concealedweapon offense and adds an offense that requires a juvenile intakeofficer to make a report with the school division superintendentto the list of such instances that must be disclosed to a schoolprincipal for the protection of the juvenile, his fellow students,and school personnel.

Transportation funding; statewide prioritizationprocess. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board, whenadministering SMART SCALE, to ensure that projects are evaluatedfor district grant program funds and high-priority funds separately,and that the projects selected in one program do not impact the otherprogram. The bill requires the Board to weight congestion mitigation at at least 55 percent in the Northern Virginia and Hampton Roadshighway construction districts. The bill requires that projects eligiblefor district grant program funds receive a district-specific scoreand an overall score.

School Divisions of Innovation; local assessments. Allows a local school board, when applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation, to apply to the Board of Education to replace the Virginia Studies and Civics and Economics Standards of Learning assessments with local assessments that include performance-based assessments. The bill requires any such application to (i) demonstrate that the proposed local assessment requires that students demonstrate the knowledge and skills required by the relevant Standards of Learning and that students demonstrate one or more of the skills and qualities of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, or citizenship and (ii) provide evidence of the local school board's capacity to administer and score performance-based assessments.

Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. RobertRussa Moton.

Safe reporting of overdoses; immunity from prosecution. Providesthat no individual (i) who sought or obtained emergency medical attention forhimself or for another individual because of a drug or alcohol-related overdoseor (ii) is experiencing a drug or alcohol-related overdose and anotherindividual, in good faith, seeks or obtains emergency medical attention forsuch individual shall be prosecuted for unlawful purchase, possession, orconsumption of alcohol, simple possession of a controlled substance, possessionof marijuana, intoxication in public, or possession of controlledparaphernalia. Under current law, an affirmative defense against such offensesis available for an individual who sought or obtained emergency medicalattention for himself or for another individual because of a drug-related oralcohol-related overdose. The bill also adds the statewide poison controlsystem to the list of emergency care providers to whom individuals mustcontemporaneously report such overdoses in order to qualify for immunity fromprosecution. The bill also states that no individual who is immune fromprosecution pursuant to the provisions of the bill shall be found to be inviolation of any term or condition of probation, parole, postreleasesupervision, pretrial supervision, a suspended sentence, or bail, bond, orrecognizance on the basis of evidence obtained as a result of an individual'sseeking or obtaining emergency medical attention and that the real or personalproperty of an individual who is immune from prosecution that was used inconnection with or derived from the specified offenses shall not be subject toforfeiture to the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that immunity fromprosecution does not apply to an individual who seeks or obtains emergencymedical attention for himself or another individual, or who is experiencing anoverdose when another individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attentionfor such individual, during the execution of a search warrant or during theconduct of a lawful search or a lawful arrest.