Del. Betsy Carr

Commending the Chesapeake Bay Commission.

Commending Greater Richmond Fit4Kids.

Commending The Faison Center.

Commending the Children's Home Society of Virginia.

Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. RobertRussa Moton.

Safe reporting of overdoses; immunity from prosecution. Providesthat no individual (i) who sought or obtained emergency medical attention forhimself or for another individual because of a drug or alcohol-related overdoseor (ii) is experiencing a drug or alcohol-related overdose and anotherindividual, in good faith, seeks or obtains emergency medical attention forsuch individual shall be prosecuted for unlawful purchase, possession, orconsumption of alcohol, simple possession of a controlled substance, possessionof marijuana, intoxication in public, or possession of controlledparaphernalia. Under current law, an affirmative defense against such offensesis available for an individual who sought or obtained emergency medicalattention for himself or for another individual because of a drug-related oralcohol-related overdose. The bill also adds the statewide poison controlsystem to the list of emergency care providers to whom individuals mustcontemporaneously report such overdoses in order to qualify for immunity fromprosecution. The bill also states that no individual who is immune fromprosecution pursuant to the provisions of the bill shall be found to be inviolation of any term or condition of probation, parole, postreleasesupervision, pretrial supervision, a suspended sentence, or bail, bond, orrecognizance on the basis of evidence obtained as a result of an individual'sseeking or obtaining emergency medical attention and that the real or personalproperty of an individual who is immune from prosecution that was used inconnection with or derived from the specified offenses shall not be subject toforfeiture to the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that immunity fromprosecution does not apply to an individual who seeks or obtains emergencymedical attention for himself or another individual, or who is experiencing anoverdose when another individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attentionfor such individual, during the execution of a search warrant or during theconduct of a lawful search or a lawful arrest.

Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leadersand mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makesseveral changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishmentof units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning andprincipal mentorship statewide in Standard 1 and requiring the Board ofEducation to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leaderand teacher mentor programs in Standard 5. The bill also makes several changesrelating to school personnel in Standard 2, including (i) establishingschoolwide ratios of students to teachers in certain schools with highconcentrations of poverty and granting flexibility to provide compensationadjustments to teachers in such schools; (ii) requiring each school board toassign licensed personnel in a manner that provides an equitable distributionof experienced, effective teachers and other personnel among all schools in thelocal school division; (iii) requiring each school board to employ teacherleaders and teacher mentors at specified student-to-position ratios; (iv)requiring state funding in addition to basic aid to support at-risk studentsand granting flexibility in the use of such funds by school boards; (v)lowering the ratio of English language learner students to teachers; (vi)requiring each school board to employ reading specialists and establishing astudent-to-position ratio for such specialists; (vii) requiring school boardsto employ one full-time principal in each elementary school; (viii) loweringthe ratio of students to assistant principals and school counselors inelementary, middle, and high schools; and (ix) requiring each school board toprovide at least four specialized student support positions, including schoolsocial workers, school psychologists, school nurses, and other licensed healthand behavioral positions, per 1,000 students.

Department of Human Resource Management; totalcompensation statement. Requires the Department of Human ResourceManagement to develop a total compensation statement for each employeein the service of the Commonwealth to be distributed annually tothe employee by hard copy. The bill requires the statement to providethe total value of all compensation provided by the Commonwealthto the employee, including medical benefits, health premium awards,life insurance, flexible spending accounts, bonuses, disability benefits,employee assistance programs, deferred compensation, and retirement benefits.

Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from$500 to $1,500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goodsor chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grandlarceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount forthe classification of certain property crimes.

Commending the Loudoun Hunt.