High school graduation requirements; satisfaction of certain course credits with workforce credentials; development and maintenance of list of accepted credentials. Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, to develop and maintain a current, comprehensive, and uniform list of industry-recognized workforce credentials that students may take as a substitute for certain units of credit required for graduation, including such credentials that are accepted as substitutes for (i) laboratory science credits or (ii) electives credits. The bill provides that such list uniformly applies across each local school division and that each school board is required to accept as a substitute for a required credit any credential listed as an accepted substitute for such required credit. The bill also requires any College and Career Access Pathways Partnership entered into between a school board and a comprehensive community college to specify, consistent with the list, industry-recognized credentials that are accepted as substitutes for certain credits required for high school graduation. Finally, the bill requires the Board, in establishing graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute (a) three standard units of credit and one verified credit in laboratory science or (b) credits for electives for completion of any industry-approved workforce credential that is included on the list as an accepted substitute for such credits. This bill was incorporated into HB 1345.
Del. Tony Wilt
Sponsored bills
Department of Medical Assistance Services; Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid Waivers; state plan amendments; program rule modifications. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to seek to modify the program rules for certain 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid Waivers to eliminate the requirement that in order for a legally responsible individual to receive reimbursement for personal care services, no one else be available to provide such services to the Medicaid member. This bill was incorporated into HB 1318.
Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.
Commending Peter A. Blake.
Commending Scott McGeary.
Charitable gaming; definition of "organization." Modifies the definition of "organization" for the purposes of charitablegaming in the Commonwealth to include an organization that is exempt from income tax pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Codeand that is a revitalization organization that is operated, and hasalways been operated, exclusively for the purposes of revitalizingthe Downtown Harrisonburg Historic District as the economic and socialhub of the City of Harrisonburg.
Department of Energy; State Corporation Commission;federal funding resources for electric utilities; report. Directsthe Department of Energy, in collaboration with the State CorporationCommission, to estimate and analyze total and discrete federal fundingresources available to electric utilities in the Commonwealth fortransmission, generation, distribution, or grid transformation projects.The bill directs the Department to develop a benchmarking and trackingsystem to encourage the maximum leveraging of federal funding resourcesby electric utilities no later than October 1, 2025. The bill requiresthe Department and the Commission to complete their meetings by November30, 2024, and to submit an executive summary and report of theirfindings to the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation.
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.