Del. Terry Kilgore

Establishing an inaugural committee.

General Assembly; 2022 Session schedule.Establishes a schedule for the conduct of business coming beforethe 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly of Virginia.

Establishing the Rules of the House of Delegates for the 2022 - 2023 Sessions of the General Assembly of Virginia.

Commending the Honorable M. Kirkland Cox.

General Assembly; 2023 Session prefiling schedule.Establishes a schedule for the prefiling period for the 2023 RegularSession of the General Assembly of Virginia.

Notifying the Governor of organization.

Public health emergency; emergency medical services agencies; real-time access to information. Directs the Department of Health to develop and implement a system for sharing information regarding confirmed cases of communicable diseases of public health threat with emergency medical services agencies in real time during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat and with the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board and regional emergency medical services councils upon request, in order to protect the health and safety of emergency medical services personnel and the public.

Public adjusters; continuing education.Provides for continuing education requirements for public adjustersand that the insurance continuing education board (the Board), appointedby the State Corporation Commission, is responsible for establishingand monitoring standards for such requirements. Currently, the Commissionis given such responsibility and the Board is responsible for thecontinuing education requirements for other insurance agents and agencies. The bill maintains the current requirement that a publicadjuster complete a minimum of 24 hours of approved credits, includingthree hours of ethics, on a biennial basis.

Standards of Learning assessments; reading and mathematics; grades three through eight; individual student growth. Requires the Board of Education to establish, in lieu of a one-time end-of-year assessment and for the purpose of providing measures of individual student growth over the course of the school year, a through-year growth assessment system, aligned with the Standards of Learning, for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to include at least one beginning-of-year and one end-of-year assessment in order to provide individual student growth scores over the course of the school year, provided that the total time scheduled for taking all such assessments shall not exceed 150 percent of the time scheduled for taking a single end-of-year proficiency assessment. The bill requires the Department of Education to ensure adequate training for teachers and principals on how to interpret and use student growth data from such assessments to improve reading and mathematics instruction in grades three through eight throughout the school year. The bill requires such through-year growth assessment system to be fully implemented in each local school division no later than the 2024-2025 school year.

Provision of broadband capacity by Phase I or Phase II electric utilities. Makes permanent the pilot program under which a Phase I or Phase II electric utility is permitted to petition the State Corporation Commission to provide broadband capacity to unserved areas of the Commonwealth. The bill expands the program to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-owned broadband authorities. The bill provides that investor-owned electric utilities may recover costs of and revenue generated from providing broadband capacity that serves as an electric grid transformation project in areas unserved by broadband, as defined in the bill. The bill also consolidates the State Corporation Commission petition approval process into one hearing.