Window tint; emergency vehicles. Authorizeswindow tinting on all emergency medical services vehicles and vehiclesused to fight fire, including publicly owned state forest wardenvehicles. Current law authorizes tinting on the rear and rear sidewindows of emergency medical services vehicles used to transportpatients.
Timing of local elections. Allows a cityor town by majority vote of the local governing body to hold itsmunicipal elections on the first Tuesday in May for terms to commenceJuly 1, in which case the terms of council members shall be extendedby six months in order to implement the transition. Currently, citiesand towns must hold their municipal elections at the time of theNovember general election.
Real property taxes; notice by mail of proposedincrease. Requires localities, after conducting a reassessment of real estate, to provide notice to property owners by mail of certaininformation prior to adopting a tax rate that would increase theamount of real property tax collected above 101 percent of the prioryear's tax collections. The bill requires the notice to include (i)the dollar and percentage amount of increase that the proposed tax rate would levy on the owner's particular property compared to theprevious year's tax levy, (ii) the tax levy on the owner's particularproperty for the previous tax year and the proposed levy for thecurrent tax year, and (iii) all of the information regarding theproposed tax rate that under current law is required to be postedin a newspaper and a prominent public location.
Department of Human Resource Management; recruitmentpolicy; direct work experience. Requires the Department of HumanResource Management to develop a statewide recruitment policy designedto provide guidance to state agencies on how to remove postsecondarydegree requirements from hiring considerations and recruit qualifiedemployees utilizing appropriate baseline requirements, the specificsof which are outlined in the bill.
Board of Education; model policies on parentalreview of instructional material; local adoption. Requires theBoard of Education to adopt and distribute to each school board modelpolicies requiring any instructional material used in any publicelementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth to be open forinspection during normal business hours by the parents of studentsenrolled in the relevant public school, regardless of the copyright status of any such material. The bill requires each school boardto adopt policies that are consistent with such model policies adoptedby the Board.
Wrongful death; death of parent or guardianof child resulting from driving under the influence; child support.Provides that in any action for death by wrongful act where the defendant,as a result of driving a motor vehicle or operating a watercraft under the influence, unintentionally caused the death of another personwho was the parent or legal guardian of a child, the person who hascustody of such child may petition the court to order that the defendantpay child support.
Unemployment compensation; maximum durationof benefits. Provides that the maximum duration for which a claimantmay receive unemployment compensation benefits shall be calculatedbased on the average, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in theCommonwealth for the three months preceding the month in which suchclaimant files his first claim in a benefit year.
Absentee voting; absentee voting in person;available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availabilityof absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Undercurrent law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 days prior to the election.
Absentee voting in person; available beginningon the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation.Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately precedingan election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee voting in person be available Monday through Saturday, from 7:00a.m. to 7:00 p.m. each day.
Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibitionon boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employsmore than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase orderin excess of $10,000 a provision that states that during the performanceof the contract, neither the contracting business nor any of itsaffiliates shall engage in a boycott of Israel.
