Del. Kaye Kory

Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.

Commissioner of Highways; roadways operating under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to operate under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Directs the Commissioner of Highways to evaluate whether it is in the public interest for any roadway operated pursuant to the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to operate instead under the authority and requirements provided by the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA). The bill authorizes the Commissioner, if he determines it is in the public interest for any such roadway to operate under the PPTA and if the Secretary of Transportation and the Transportation Public-Private Partnership Steering Committee concur, to negotiate and execute a new comprehensive agreement with the operator of such roadway to operate under the authority and requirements provided by the PPTA. The bill has an expiration date of January 1, 2024.

School boards; production of public records;fee schedules. Requires each school board to develop and postor otherwise make publicly available a fee schedule governing chargesfor the release of public records to be used by each school withinits school division when responding to requests for public recordspursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill requiressuch fee schedule to be based on the most recent estimate of theaggregate costs incurred by each school within a school board's divisionin accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requestedpublic records. Finally, the bill provides that a school board shallreview and update the fee schedule at least annually.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;county and city enforcement. Provides that any county or citymay bring an action to enforce the provisions of the Virginia ResidentialLandlord and Tenant Act related to health and safety, provided that(i) the property where the violations occurred is within the jurisdictionalboundaries of the county or city; (ii) the county or city has notifiedthe landlord who owns the property directly or through the managing agent of the nature of the violations and the landlord has not remediedthe violations within a reasonable time after receiving such noticeto the satisfaction of the county or city; and (iii) such enforcementaction may include seeking an injunction, damages, or both.

Failure to wear a seatbelt; primary offense.Changes from a secondary offense to a primary offense the failureto wear a seatbelt as required by law. A primary offense is one forwhich a law-enforcement officer may stop a motor vehicle.

Campaign finance; prohibited contributionsto candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, andpolitical committees from soliciting or accepting contributions fromany public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any publicutility or any political committee established by such public utilityfrom making any such contribution.

Earned sentence credits. Provides that sentence credits may be earned by any person committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections (the Department), regardless of whether the person is confined in a state or local correctional facility. The bill allows inmates to earn more than 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served on a sentence for a conviction of robbery or carjacking, provided that the inmate did not use a weapon or threaten or harm another person during the commission of the offense. The bill allows inmates to earn enhanced sentence credits for consecutive sentences served after the completion of any offense that would otherwise limit the inmate to earning 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served. The bill allows an inmate to earn Level I sentence credits if, provided certain other requirements are met, the inmate had no more than one minor correctional infraction and no serious correctional infractions within the previous 12 months. The bill directs the Department to establish a program that allows victims to advocate on behalf of an inmate for reclassification of the inmate's sentence credits. The bill provides that the earned sentence credit provisions of § 53.1-202.3 of the Code of Virginia, which would become effective on July 1, 2022, shall apply retroactively to the entire sentence of any person who is committed to the custody of the Department and is participating in the earned sentence credit program on July 1, 2022. The bill requires the Department, among other things, to provide notice to inmates regarding sentence credit adjustments and an adjusted release date by July 1, 2022, and establish a process through which inmates may appeal the Department's determinations regarding sentence credit adjustments.

Celebrating the life of Officer Michael D. Chandler.

Department of General Services; constructionevaluation of impact of types of electricity. Requires all departments,agencies, and institutions of the Commonwealth, prior to constructionof new structures, to evaluate the construction for the potentialto rely on geothermal and solar energy. Such evaluation shall includean assessment of the immediate cost and the potential for cost savingsover time by providing these types of electricity.

State health plan; insulin discount program; health insurance; cost sharing for insulin. Requires the state health plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management to offer an insulin discount program that allows individuals other than state employees to purchase insulin at a discounted, post-rebate price. The bill requires the insulin discount program to (i) allow a participant to purchase insulin at a discounted, post-rebate price; (ii) provide a participant with a card or electronic document that identifies the participant as eligible for the discount; (iii) provide a participant with information about pharmacies that will honor the discount; and (iv) provide a participant with instructions to pursue a reimbursement of the purchase price from the participant's carrier. The bill requires the discount program to charge a price for insulin that allows the program to retain only enough of any rebate for the insulin to make the state risk pool whole for providing discounted insulin to participants.Additionally, the bill requires health plans offered by a carrier to set the cost-sharing payment that a covered person is required to pay for at least one prescription insulin drug in each therapy category at an amount that does not exceed $30 per 30-day supply of the prescription insulin drug unless the health plan (a) covers at least one prescription insulin drug for the treatment of diabetes in each therapy category under the lowest tier of drugs and does not require cost sharing other than the cost sharing payment before the plan will cover insulin at the lowest tier or (b) guarantees that a covered person is not required to pay more out of pocket for a prescription insulin drug than the covered person would pay to obtain the prescription insulin drug through the insulin discount program and caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for at least one prescription insulin drug in each therapy category at an amount not to exceed $100 per 30-day supply of the prescription insulin drug. Under current law, a health plan is required to set the cost-sharing payment that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription insulin drug at an amount that does not exceed $50 per 30-day supply of the prescription insulin drug, regardless of the amount or type of insulin needed to fill the covered person's prescription.The bill also allows a health plan that provides coverage of a prescription insulin drug with the cost-sharing limits established in the bill to condition the cost-sharing limits on (1) the covered person's participation in a wellness-related activities for diabetes, (2) purchasing the prescription insulin drug at an in-network pharmacy, or (3) choosing a prescription insulin drug from the lowest ties of the health plan' s formulary.