Del. Kathleen Murphy

Commending the Virginia Manufacturers Association.

Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and African nations, with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, agriculture, art, education, and government. The Board is composed of 18 nonlegislative citizen members, of whom at least 15 must be persons who identify as part of the African diaspora, to be appointed by the Governor. The Secretaries of Agriculture and Forestry, Commerce and Trade, and Education or their designees serve as ex officio members.

Income tax subtraction; National Guard.Increases from $3,000 to $5,000 the income tax subtraction for wagesor salaries of a member of the National Guard of the Commonwealth. The bill also expands the military ranks that qualify for the subtractionfrom O3 and below to O6 and below.

Study; JLARC; effects of gun violence on communities;report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commissionto study the social, physical, emotional, and economic effects ofgun violence on communities across the Commonwealth.

Elections; removal of officers; recall elections;petition. Provides for the removal of certain elected officersand officers appointed to elected offices by recall referendum. Thebill requires a petition for recall be signed by 30 percent of thetotal number of votes cast at the last election for the office forwhich a recall is sought.

Study; Department of Transportation; transitequity and engagement opportunities for people with disabilities;report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study transitequity and modernization in the Commonwealth, with an emphasis ontransit services and engagement opportunities for people with disabilities.

Virginia State Crime Commission; stakeholderwork group to create a common definition of human trafficking. Directsthe Virginia State Crime Commission to convene a stakeholder workgroup to create a common definition of human trafficking that maybe used in the Code of Virginia and recognized by local and stateagencies.

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use ofcampaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisoryopinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributionsto a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributionswith regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution ofa campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contributionis considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution,in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation,or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking,holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personaluse" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning foror holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds topay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as adirect result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personaluse ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Electionson such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections toadopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the FederalElection Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and toprovide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgatedby the State Board of Elections.

Unaccompanied homeless youth; consent to medicalcare. Provides that except for the purposes of sterilizationor abortion, a minor who is 14 years of age or older and who is an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult for the purposeof consenting to surgical or medical examination or treatment, includingdental examination and treatment, for himself or his minor child.The bill describes evidence sufficient to determine that a minoris an unaccompanied homeless youth and provides that no health careprovider shall be liable for any civil or criminal action for providingsurgical or medical treatment to an unaccompanied homeless youthor his minor child without first obtaining the consent of his parentor guardian provided in accordance with the law, with the exceptionof liability for negligence in the diagnosis or treatment of suchunaccompanied homeless youth.

Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm with a major component, as defined in the bill, that when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports for security screening does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. The bill updates language regarding the types of detection devices that are used at airports for detecting plastic firearms.The bill also creates several Class 1 misdemeanors, which are punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, making it unlawful (i) for any person to knowingly possess, transport, or receive an unfinished frame or receiver unless the party possessing or receiving the unfinished frame or receiver is a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer or the unfinished frame or receiver is required by federal law to be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number by a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer and (ii) for any person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or receiver unless the party selling, offering to sell, transferring, or purchasing the unfinished frame or receiver is a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer or the unfinished frame or receiver is required by federal law to be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number by a federal firearms importer, manufacturer, or dealer. The provisions related to the prohibition for possessing, transporting, or receiving an unfinished frame or receiver have a delayed effected date of January 1, 2023.