Public schools; lock-down drills; annual requirement. Reduces from three to two the minimum number of mandatory annuallock-down drills in each public elementary and secondary school inthe Commonwealth.
Virginia Jobs Investment Program and Fund; minimumwage requirements. Adjusts the minimum entry-level wage rate per hour a company is required to pay in order to be eligible forassistance under the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from at least1.35 times the federal minimum wage to 1.2 times the federal minimumwage or the Virginia minimum wage, whichever is higher.
Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosures for a buyer to beware; mold. Adds to the provision of the required disclosure statement directing a buyer to beware and exercise necessary due diligence with respect to determining the condition of real property or any improvements thereon a provision advising the buyer to obtain a mold assessment conducted by a business that follows the guidelines provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Nurse practitioners; practice without a practice agreement. Reduces from five to two the number of years of full-time clinical experience a nurse practitioner must have to be eligible to practice without a written or electronic practice agreement. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2022.
Economic education and financial literacy requiredin middle and high school grades; employment arrangements. Addsto objectives developed and approved by the Board of Education foreconomics education and financial literacy at the middle and highschool levels the implications of various employment arrangementswith regard to benefits, protections, and long-term financial sustainability. Employment arrangements is defined in the bill as full-time employment, part-time employment, independent contract work, gig work, piecework, contingent work, day labor work, freelance work, and 1099work.
Emergency Services and Disaster Law; local andinterjurisdictional emergency operations plans. Requires localand interjurisdictional agencies to include provisions in their emergency operations plans to ensure that such plans are applied equitablyand that the needs of minority and vulnerable communities are metduring emergencies.
Property Owners' Association Act; Condominium Act; use of electronic means for meetings and voting. Allows meetings of property owners' associations, boards of directors, unit owners' associations, executive boards, and committees to be held entirely or partially by electronic means, provided that the board of directors or executive board, as applicable, has adopted guidelines for the use of electronic means for such meetings. The bill requires that such guidelines ensure that persons accessing such meetings are authorized to do so and that persons entitled to participate in such meetings have an opportunity to do so. The bill grants authority for determining whether any such meeting may be held entirely or partially by electronic means to the board of directors or executive board, as applicable. Under current law, if a meeting of a board of directors or executive board is conducted by telephone conference or video conference, at least two members of the board of directors or executive board, as applicable, are required to be physically present at the meeting place included in the meeting notice. The bill amends the definition of "electronic means" to provide that meeting conducted by electronic means includes a meeting conducted via teleconference, videoconference, Internet exchange, or other electronic methods. The bill allows members of property owners' associations or unit owners' associations to vote at meetings of such associations by absentee ballot, and allows such members to vote in person, by proxy, or by absentee ballot by electronic means, provided that the board of directors or executive board, as applicable, has adopted guidelines for such voting. Finally, the bill provides that if a vote, consent, or approval required to be obtained by secret ballot is accomplished through electronic means, the electronic means shall protect the identity of the voter, and that if the electronic means cannot protect the identity of the voter, another means of voting shall be used.
Sale or transfer of firearms; criminal historyrecord information check delay. Increases from three businessdays to five business days the time provided for the Department of State Police to complete a background check before a firearm maybe transferred. If a dealer who has otherwise fulfilled all requirementsis told by the State Police that a response will not be availableby the end of the dealer's fifth business day, the dealer may completethe sale or transfer without being deemed in violation.
Arrest and prosecution when experiencing orreporting overdoses. Prohibits the arrest or prosecution of anindividual for the unlawful purchase, possession, or consumptionof alcohol, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, intoxication in public, or possession of controlled paraphernaliaif (i) such individual, in good faith, renders emergency care orassistance, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or theadministration of naloxone or other opioid antagonist for overdosereversal, to an individual experiencing an overdose while anotherindividual seeks or obtains emergency medical attention; (ii) suchindividual remains at the scene of the overdose or at any locationto which he or the individual requiring emergency medical attentionhas been transported; (iii) such individual identifies himself tothe law-enforcement officer who responds; and (iv) the evidence fora prosecution of one of the enumerated offenses would have been obtainedonly as a result of the individual's rendering emergency care orassistance. Current law prohibitsarrest or prosecution for such offenses only to an individual whoseeks or obtains emergency medical attention for himself or anotherindividual or who is experiencing an overdose when another individualseeks or obtains emergency medical attention for him.
Teachers and other licensed school board employees;cultural competency. The bill requires teacher, principal, and division superintendent evaluations to include an evaluation ofcultural competency. The bill requires every person seeking initiallicensure or renewal of a license from the Board of Education (i)to complete instruction or training in cultural competency and (ii)with an endorsement in history and social sciences to complete instructionin African American history, as prescribed by the Board. The billalso requires each school board to adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and any other school board employee holdinga license issued by the Board to complete cultural competency training,in accordance with guidance issued by the Board, at least every twoyears.
