Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund; established.Establishes the Virginia Health Workforce Innovation Fund tobe administered by the Board of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority. The Board shall use the Fund to provide grants to facilitate regional collaboration on health care innovation and workforce developmentand, in particular, the formation of regional, employer-led partnershipsthat prioritize workforce growth and training. The bill provides for the formation across the Commonwealth of regional councils, definedin the bill, consisting of representatives from the government, health care, and education sectors. Under the bill, regional councils maysubmit applications for collaborative projects in their regions thatenhance private-sector growth, competitiveness, and workforce development.A portion of the grant funds will be awarded on a population basisand a portion on a competitive basis.
Del. Rod Willett
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Board of Counseling; registration of behavioralhealth technicians and behavioral health technician trainees.Establishes requirements for the Board of Counseling to register individualsas behavioral health technicians or behavioral health techniciantrainees. The bill authorizes the Board to promulgate regulationsfor such registration, including necessary qualifications, education,and experience. The bill removes references to qualified mental health professionals with a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; establishmentof neurobehavioral science unit; waiver services for individualswith traumatic brain injury and neurocognitive diagnoses; work group.Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek authoritythrough the state plan for medical assistance services to implementa neurobehavioral science unit and to submit an amendment to thestate plan for medical assistance services to the Centers for Medicareand Medicaid Services to receive federal approval to administer neurorestorative and rehabilitative services for qualifying individualswith traumatic brain injury and neurocognitive diagnoses. The billauthorizes the Department to promulgate emergency regulations toimplement the neurobehavioral science unit and the traumatic braininjury and neurocognitive diagnoses services waiver upon approvaland directs the Department to convene a work group of relevant stakeholdersto provide updates on the progress and the implementation of theneurobehavioral science unit and the traumatic brain injury and neurocognitivediagnoses services waiver.
Recycling Infrastructure Improvement Fund; established;report. Establishes the Virginia Recycling Infrastructure ImprovementFund for the purpose of supporting local government recycling programs.The bill requires the Department of Environmental Quality to administerthe Fund as a grant program to encourage the establishment of physicalinfrastructure and equipment necessary to start or improve local government recycling operations. The bill prohibits local governmentsfrom discontinuing their recycling programs until after July 1, 2028.
Board of Nursing; nursing faculty educationalrequirements. Directs the Board of Nursing to add or remove certain educational requirements for members of the nursing facultyin specified nursing education programs. The bill directs the Boardto adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of thebill.
Department of Medical Assistance Services; reimbursement rates for Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers withDisabilities; work group; report. Directs the Department of MedicalAssistance Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholdersto assess and make recommendations related to reimbursement ratesfor the federal Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlerswith Disabilities. The bill requires the work group to report itsrecommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health,Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education andHealth by November 1, 2024.
Students with individualized education programsor Section 504 Plans; emergency protocol and guide. Requiresa protocol for individualized accommodations and supports during emergency situations at school and a step-by-step guide on how toexecute such protocol to be included in each individualized educationprogram implemented for a public school student with a disabilityin accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities EducationAct and in each Section 504 Plan implemented for a public schoolstudent in accordance with § 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Actof 1973 and provided to all of such student's teachers for implementation.
Consumer reporting agencies; medical debt.Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from making any consumer reportcontaining any adverse item of information that the consumer reportingagency knows or should know concerns medical debt except in the caseof any consumer report to be used in connection with a credit transactioninvolving a principal amount that exceeds the national conformingloan limit value for a one-unit property as determined annually bythe Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority;health workforce development program. Directs the Virginia HealthWorkforce Development Authority to establish a program to strengthenthe health and health sciences workforce.
Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's MajorEntertainment Opportunity Fund. Renames the Governor's MotionPicture Opportunity Fund under the Virginia Tourism Authority asthe Governor's Major Entertainment Opportunity Fund and changes itspurpose from supporting the film and video industries in Virginiato supporting major entertainment events not regularly scheduled inVirginia by providing the means for attracting entertainment operationsand projects with spectators or participants in the Commonwealthusing Virginia employees, goods, and services.