Rep. Otto Wachsmann

Absentee voting; deadline for returning absenteeballot. Requires that an absentee ballot be received before the closing of the polls on election day in order to be counted. Currently,an absentee ballot that is received after the closing of the pollsbut before noon on the third day after the election is counted ifit is postmarked on or before the date of the election.

Voter registration; registration permittedup to and including the day of the election. Repeals a provisionthat would permit any person who is qualified to register to voteto register to vote in person up to and including the day of theelection, notwithstanding any deadline for the close of registration records. The repeal will limit the persons who are entitled to registerto vote after the close of registration records to (i) any member of a uniformed service of the United States who is on active duty,(ii) any person residing temporarily outside of the United States,and (iii) the spouse or dependent residing with someone listed in(i) or (ii).

Commending Virginia Polytechnic Institute andState University.

Commending the Virginia Manufacturers Association.

Board of Education; policy on sexually explicitinstructional material. Requires the Board of Education to establish,and each local school board to comply with, a policy to require each public elementary or secondary school to (i) notify the parent ofany student whose teacher reasonably expects to provide instructionalmaterial that includes sexually explicit content, (ii) permit theparent of any student to review instructional material that includessexually explicit content upon request, and (iii) provide, as analternative to instructional material and related academic activitiesthat include sexually explicit content, nonexplicit instructionalmaterial and related academic activities to any student whose parentso requests.

Health insurance; retail community pharmacies.Requires a carrier to administer its health benefit plans in a mannerconsistent with certain requirements and to include such requirementsin its provider contracts addressing the provision of pharmacy benefitsmanagement. The bill provides that (i) a covered individual is permittedto fill any mail order-covered prescription, at the covered individual'soption, at any mail order pharmacy or network participating retailcommunity pharmacy under certain conditions; (ii) the carrier orpharmacy benefits manager is prohibited from imposing a differentialcopayment, additional fee, rebate, bonus, or other condition on anycovered individual who elects to fill his prescription at an in-network retail community pharmacy that is not similarly imposed on coveredindividuals electing to fill a prescription from a mail order pharmacy;and (iii) the pharmacy benefits manager is required to expresslydisclose to the carrier in the contract if the pharmacy benefitsmanager retains all or a greater portion of a drug manufacturer'srebate amount or any additional direct or indirect remuneration fromany third party for drugs dispensed through the pharmacy benefitsmanager-owned mail order pharmacy than the pharmacy benefits managerdoes for drugs dispensed through a retail community pharmacy. Thebill also removes the exemption for a self-insured or self-fundedemployee welfare benefit plan under provisions regulating pharmacybenefits managers.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.

Commending the Honorable Mark Cole.

Celebrating the life of Officer Michael D. Chandler.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable ArthurR. Giesen, Jr.