Del. Wendell Walker

Celebrating the life of Janet Marie Brooking.

Commending Peter A. Blake.

Commending Scott McGeary.

Department of Education; development and distribution of fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet; requirements. Requires the Department of Education to develop, in collaboration with the Department of Health, a fentanyl education and awareness informational one-sheet designed to promote awareness of the dangers associated with and the prevalence of fentanyl and provide essential information on fentanyl overdose prevention and preparedness among high school-age students. The bill requires the Department of Education to make available to each school board and post in a publicly accessible location on its website such informational one-sheet and to annually review and update such informational one-sheet in collaboration with the Department of Health to ensure its currency and accuracy. The bill requires each public high school or secondary school that includes grades nine through 12 to annually distribute such informational one-sheet to each student in grades nine through 12 within the first two weeks of the school year. This bill was incorporated into HB 1473.

Commending Outside the Cone.

Commending the Liberty University football team.

Commending the Liberty Christian Academy footballteam.

Elections; voting equipment and systems; StateBoard approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to producea printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that showsthe date and time the voter's ballot was cast, the voter's numbercorresponding to the order in which ballots were cast, and a listof all the voter's selections on the ballot as recorded by the votingsystem.

Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issuedand jailer-issued identification. Provides that the Departmentof Corrections may establish a procedure for securing a government-issuedidentification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card throughthe Department of Motor Vehicles and that the Department of MotorVehicles shall expedite the processing of an application submittedby a prisoner for such government-issued identification card andthe issuance of such identification. The bill also requires the Departmentof Corrections, in coordination with the State Board of Local andRegional Jails, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the State Registrarof Vital Records, to (i) review the processes involved in assistinga prisoner in applying for and obtaining a government-issued identificationcard, birth certificate, or Social Security card; (ii) identify anyobstacles that may interfere with a prisoner obtaining such identificationor documents prior to such prisoner's release or discharge; and (iii)issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024.

Study; JLARC; skilled nursing, long-term care,and community care facilities; report. Directs the Joint LegislativeAudit and Review Commission to study the capacity and condition ofskilled nursing, long-term care, and community care facilities withinthe Commonwealth.