Celebrating the life of the Reverend JeanneMarie Pupke.
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Celebrating the life of Master-at-Arms ChiefPetty Officer Victor Wayne Stewart, USN, Ret.
Commending Kevin Hall.
Commending Melicia Brown.
Commending Angels of Assisi.
Commending the Reverend Anthony Curtis Paige.
Study; JLARC; effects of gun violence on communities;report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commissionto study the social, physical, emotional, and economic effects ofgun violence on communities across the Commonwealth.
School boards and local governing bodies; unexpendedlocal funds; school maintenance, renovation, and construction.Encourages each school board to enter into a collaborative agreementwith the local governing body to set aside in a separate fund anysums appropriated to the school board by the local governing bodythat are unexpended by the school board in any year in order to usesuch sums to finance school maintenance, renovation, or constructionin the local school division. The bill declares any school board that fails to enter into such a collaborative agreement ineligibleto participate in any state grant, loan, or bond program that supportsschool maintenance, renovation, or construction. This bill is a recommendationof the Commission on School Construction and Modernization.
Civil action for the deprivation of rights;duties and liabilities of certain employers. Creates a civilcause of action for the deprivation of any rights, privileges, orimmunities pursuant to the constitutions and laws of the United Statesand the Commonwealth due to the acts or omissions of either a publicemployer or its employee and provides that a plaintiff may maintainan action to establish liability and recover compensatory damages,punitive damages, and equitable relief against the public employerand its employee. The bill provides that sovereign immunity is nota defense to such an action. The bill further provides that publicemployers owe a duty of reasonable care to third parties in the hiring,supervision, training, retention, and use of their employees andthat a person who claims to have suffered injury or sustained damagescaused, in whole or in part, by a breach of this duty may maintainan action to establish liability and recover compensatory damages,punitive damages, and equitable relief against such public employer.
Refundable income tax credit for low-incometaxpayers. Allows low-income individuals and married persons to claim either (i) a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to $300for each individual, his spouse, and any dependents or (ii) a refundableincome tax credit equal to 20 percent of the federal earned incometax credit claimed that year by the individual or married personsfor the same taxable year. Under current law, low-income individualsand married persons may elect either of these amounts; however, bothoptions for claiming the credit are nonrefundable. The provisionsof the bill apply to taxable years 2022 through 2028.