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Adds three legislative members, two from the House of Delegates and one from the Senate, to the Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. The bill provides that nonlegislative members shall have experience in at least one of the following fields: (i) transit planning, transportation planning, or land use planning; (ii) transit or transportation management or management of other public sector operations; (iii) public budgeting or finance; (iv) corporate communications; (v) government oversight; or (vi) local or state government.
Creates the Henrietta Lacks Commission to establish through a public-private partnership the Henrietta Lacks Life Sciences Center in Halifax County as a cancer research and treatment center designed to (i) transform and accelerate cancer research and treatment through the use of biodata tools, (ii) provide tailored cancer treatment medicine to an underserved portion of rural Southside Virginia, and (iii) incubate new biotech businesses across the Southside Virginia region. The bill requires the Commission to annually submit a report on its interim activity and work to the Governor and General Assembly. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2021.