Rep. Chad Green

Board of Health; hospital regulations; patientdrug testing. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulationsto require hospitals to test patients who are presenting with overdosesymptoms for fentanyl and to test for fentanyl, marijuana, amphetamines, opioids, and phencyclidine as a part of any routine drug screeningadministered to a patient.

Threats of death or bodily injury to personson school property; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanorfor any person to orally make a threat to kill or do serious bodily injury to any person, regarding that person, while that person is(i) on the grounds or premises of any elementary, middle, or secondaryschool property; (ii) at any elementary, middle, or secondary school-sponsoredevent; or (iii) on a school bus, when the threat places the personwho is the object of the threat in reasonable apprehension of deathor serious bodily injury to himself.

Sexual extortion; penalty. Makes it a Class5 felony for any person to maliciously threaten eviction, loss ofhousing, property damage, or any financial loss with the intent tocause the complaining witness to engage in sexual intercourse, cunnilingus,fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexual abuse and thereby engagein sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse,inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, or an act of sexualabuse. The bill also creates an unclassified felony punishable bynot less than one nor more than 20 years and a fine of not more than$100,000 for any adult who violates the provisions of the bill witha person younger than 18 years of age.

Candidates for office; electronic petitions.Allows for the collection of signatures by electronic means, requiresthe State Board of Elections to prescribe candidate petitions formsin both paper and electronic formats, and provides formal requirementsfor signatures on electronic petitions. The bill also makes technicalamendments to provide uniformity in requirements for such petitions.

State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicleemissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State AirPollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissionsvehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 andlater. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing anymodel year standards related to control of emissions from new motorvehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicleand zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal CleanAir Act and prohibits the Commonwealth from requiring any new motorvehicle or new motor vehicle engine to be certified as compliantwith model year standards related to the control of emissions adoptedby California for which a waiver has been granted pursuant to thefederal Clean Air Act.

Fishing license requirements; exemptions; freefishing days. Increases from three to six the maximum numberof days that the Board of Wildlife Resources may designate as freefishing days for a person to fish in any inland waters of the Commonwealth without a fishing license.

Department of Workforce Development and Advancement;Director. Changes the title of the Director of the Departmentof Workforce Development and Advancement to the Commissioner of Workforce Development and Advancement. The bill directs the Department of WorkforceDevelopment and Advancement to examine the feasibility or need ofany new workforce development program prior to its creation and providea report to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill changesthe minimum level of fiscal support from WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker funds to training and job placement services from 40 to 50percent. The bill also makes the Department responsible for providing a list of high-demand occupations to eligible educational institutions.

Comprehensive community colleges and schoolboards; dual enrollment agreements; parameters. Requires dualenrollment agreements between comprehensive community colleges andschool boards to permit any student to complete an associate degree,the Passport Program, or a one-year Uniform Certificate of GeneralStudies from a comprehensive community college concurrent with ahigh school diploma or high school equivalency program. Current lawrequires such agreements to specify options for students to completean associate degree, the Passport Program, or a one-year Uniform Certificate of General Studies from a comprehensive community college concurrent with a high school diploma.

Virginia Education Success Account Program established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill,to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success 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 schooldivision in which the qualified student resides, including the perpupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education funding for which the qualifiedstudent is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualifiedstudent to use the moneys in such account for certain qualified expensesof the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary schoolthat is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisionsrelating to program and account administration by the Departmentof the Treasury and a third party that serves as program administratorpursuant to a contract with the Department of the Treasury.

Dangers and victims of communism; recognition;Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires theGovernor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh dayof November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day tobe suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary schoolin the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 millionindividuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around theworld and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitoland elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation.The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the historyand social science Standards of Learning in grades six through 12and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned programof instruction in grades six through 12 the study of the dangersof communism.