Del. Nick Freitas

Commending the Fredericksburg Dog Mart.

Commending Bobbie Jean Meriwether.

Commending William S. Feasenmyer, Jr.

Commending Major Wayne R. Lee, Jr., USA, Ret.

Voter identification; identification containinga photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisionsof law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required formsof identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voterhe claims to be. Instead, such voter would be entitled to cast aprovisional ballot.

Special license plates; NOT FORGOTTEN. Authorizesthe issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supportersof Americans listed as prisoners of war or missing in action bearingthe legend NOT FORGOTTEN. The bill requires that the design of suchplate incorporate the POW/MIA Flag as designated by the federal NationalPOW/MIA Flag Act. The bill exempts these special license plates fromthe requirement to obtain 450 prepaid applications for such plate.The bill provides that some of the license plate fees will be depositedin the POW/MIA Fund, established within the Department of Accounts,and paid annually to the National League of Families of American Prisonersand Missing in Southeast Asia and used to support its operation andprograms in Virginia.

In-person instruction; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that any school board does not provide theoption of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student, the parent of any such student who withdraws his child from attendance to receive, upon request, an educationvoucher in an amount equal to a prorated share of the applicableStandards of Quality per-pupil state funds appropriated for publicschool purposes and apportioned to the school division, includingthe per-pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and anystate per-pupil share of special education funding for which thechild is eligible, to cover the expenses of providing in-person instructionin an alternative setting. The bill permits the Department of Educationto establish rules, regulations, or procedures for the issuance ofsuch education vouchers. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Condemning the Chinese Communist Party; COVID-19pandemic. Expresses the sense of the House of Delegates in condemningthe Chinese Communist Party for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public institutions of higher education; perstudent enrollment-based funding; noncredit workforce training programs.Requires the per student enrollment-based funding provided to publicinstitutions of higher education to include funding for each Virginiastudent enrolled in a noncredit workforce training program. Undercurrent law, per student enrollment-based funding follows each Virginiaundergraduate student.

Regulation of electric utilities; developmentof renewable energy facilities; powers of Air Pollution Control Board;powers of State Corporation Commission. Repeals provisions (i)requiring the Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations toreduce carbon dioxide emissions from any electricity generating unitin the Commonwealth and authorizing the Board to establish an auctionprogram for energy allowances; (ii) prohibiting the State CorporationCommission from approving any new utility-owned generation facilitiesthat emit carbon dioxide as a by-product of energy generation, incertain circumstances; (iii) declaring that statutory allowancesfor energy derived from sunlight, onshore wind, offshore wind, and storage facilities are in the public interest; and (iv) relatingto the development of solar and wind generation and energy storagecapacity, development of offshore wind capacity, and generation ofelectricity from renewable and zero carbon sources. The bill providesthat planning and development activities for new nuclear generationfacilities are in the public interest.