Del. Israel O'Quinn

Commending Ollan Conn Cassell.

Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. RobertRussa Moton.

Lottery funds; Rural Transportation Fund. Establishes the Rural Transportation Fund, to be funded by transferring 10 percentof annual lottery revenues in fiscal years 2020 through 2024 fromthe Lottery Proceeds Fund. All lottery revenues transferred to the Rural Transportation Fund shall be used solely for the purposes offunding transportation projects in (i) Planning District 1, 2, 3,4, 5, or 6 or (ii) any locality with a population of no greater than100,000.

Special license plates; NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE.Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license platesfor supporters of the Native American Rights Fund bearing the legendNATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE.

Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; swornmembers of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Adds sworn membersof the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles tothe membership of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System.

Required local effort for basic aid; debt service on projects in certain school divisions. Permits any local school board that governs a school division (i) in which the locality is designated as fiscally at-risk or fiscally distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission in the most recent fiscal year or is determined to have above-average fiscal stress or high fiscal stress by the Virginia Commission on Local Government in its most recent "Report on the Comparative Revenue Capacity, Revenue Effort, and Fiscal Stress of Virginia Counties and Cities" and (ii) for which the composite index of local ability to pay is less than or equal to 0.2000 to expend up to 25 percent of the required local effort for basic aid for debt service on school building capital renovation or construction projects. The bill provides that in the event that the school division no longer meets such criteria, the local school board shall develop and implement a plan to readjust expenditures of the required local effort for basic aid over the course of no more than four fiscal years. The bill also provides that in the event that a school division that no longer met such criteria subsequently meets the criteria again after developing a plan, the local school board may seek the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to amend such plan. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2032.

Circuit court clerks; vendor fee for collectionand delivery of filings. Permits a vendor to which a circuitcourt clerk has outsourced the processing of credit and debit card transactions for the payment of court fees to also collect and deliverto the clerk any filings for which it has processed a credit or debitcard transaction for the payment of fees. The bill further permitsthe vendor to assess an additional fee for such collection and delivery.

Motion picture production tax credit; aggregatecap. Increases beginning in fiscal year 2020 the aggregate limiton the amount of motion picture production tax credits that may beissued from $6.5 million to $13 million annually. The bill providesthat the increase to the cap shall be reserved for productions filmedin economically distressed areas of Virginia.

Major League Baseball; continuity with minorleague teams. Encourages Major League Baseball to maintain affiliationwith all current Minor League Baseball teams in the 2020 ProfessionalBaseball Agreement.

Department of Education; School ConstructionFund and Program. Establishes the School Construction Fund asa special nonreverting fund in the state treasury and requires theDepartment of Education to establish the School Construction Programfor the purpose of providing grants from the Fund, subject to certainconditions, to school boards that leverage federal, state, and localprograms and resources to finance the design and construction of new school buildings and facilities or the modernization and maintenanceof existing school buildings and facilities.