Provision of abortion; right to informed consent. Requires physicians and authorized nurse practitioners to followcertain procedures and processes to effect a pregnant woman's informedwritten consent prior to the performance of an abortion.
Commending Radford University Carilion.
Commending Mark Crabtree, DDS.
Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Repeals the four-level classification system for the awarding andcalculation of earned sentence credits currently set to go into effecton July 1, 2022. Under current law, a maximum of 4.5 sentence credits may be earned for each 30 days served.
Family life education programs; student participation; summaries. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary schoolstudent from participating in any family life education program withoutthe prior written consent of his parent. The bill requires the summarythat is required to be posted and distributed to parents for eachsuch program to include contact information for the individual oroffice responsible for maintaining printed and audio-visual programmaterials.
Celebrating the life of Thomas Francis FarrellII.
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established.Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply to the school division in which the qualified student residesfor a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Accountthat consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the residentschool division in which the qualified student resides, includingthe per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per pupil share of special education funding for which thequalified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of thequalified student to use the moneys in such account for certain education-relatedexpenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees,and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondaryschool that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to auditing, rescinding, and reviewing expensesmade from such accounts.
Commending Louis Rodman Whitaker, Jr.
Public elementary and secondary education; schoolboards and employees; cultural competency training; evaluations.Requires the evaluation of each public school teacher and principaland division superintendent to include an evaluation of culturalcompetency if the relevant local school board has adopted and implementedpolicies to require cultural competency training. Under current law,such an evaluation of cultural competency is required and not conditionedupon any such action of the local school board. The bill permitsany school board to adopt and implement policies that require eachteacher and any other school board employee holding a license issuedby the Board of Education to complete cultural competency training,in accordance with guidance issued by the Board of Education, atleast every two years, but only after providing 30 days' advancedwritten notice of and holding a public hearing regarding the adoptionand implementation of such policies. Current law requires such culturalcompetency training and makes no provision for such notice and publichearing.
Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive communities colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law.
