Del. Irene Shin

Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paidsick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services.Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sickleave to home health workers who provide consumer-directed services.The bill provides that "employer" includes the Commonwealth, anyof its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, and anypublic body.

State correctional facilities; telephone callsand communication services. Requires the Department of Correctionsto provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communicationssystems free of charge to any person, whether such person is initiatingor receiving the communication. The bill also requires that a minimumratio of one telephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unit at each correctional facility and that the maximumnumber of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list mustbe no fewer than 20.

Child Care Subsidy Program vendors; basis forperiodic reimbursement. Requires the Department of Educationto periodically reimburse child care providers that are vendors through the Child Care Subsidy Program on the basis of authorizedchild enrollment but provides that if any such enrolled child isabsent from the provider for 10 or more days during one month, theDepartment shall periodically reimburse such provider on the basisof such child's attendance.

Permit applications for natural gas pipelines; State Water Control Law. Requires applicants for federal licenses or permits for natural gas transmission pipelines with an inside diameter of at least 24 inches to submit a separate application, erosion and sediment control plan, and stormwater management plan to the Department of Environmental Quality concurrently with a Joint Permit Application. Current law requires such application standards for pipelines with an inside diameter of greater than 36 inches. The provisions of the bill apply to any natural gas transmission pipeline project of at least 24 inches in inside diameter that is subject to a certificate of public convenience and necessity under the federal Natural Gas Act and that has not commenced construction by July 1, 2024, notwithstanding any previous certification previously issued or waived by the Department of Environmental Quality or the State Water Control Board.

Board of Medicine; continuing education; implicitbias and cultural competency in health care. Requires the Boardof Medicine to adopt and implement policies that require each practitionerlicensed by the Board who has direct contact with persons who areor may become pregnant to complete two hours of continuing educationrelated to implicit bias, defined in the bill, and cultural competencyin health care at least once every other license renewal cycle.

Common interest communities; pesticides; prohibitionon use. Clarifies that common interest community associationsmay ban the use of pesticides in or upon any common area or commonelement, as defined in relevant law. The bill also allows such associationsto establish reasonable restrictions on the use of pesticides withinthe common interest community if such use might reasonably affectany lot, common area, unit, or common element.

Celebrating the life of Charles Cragg Hines.

Commending the Honorable Mark C. Simmons.

Commending John T. Frey.

Commending the Culpeper County Volunteer FireDepartment.