Elections; conduct of election; ranked choicevoting; primaries for elected offices. Permits parties to decideto hold a primary for any office by ranked choice voting and changesfrom discretionary to mandatory the provision that the State Boardof Elections promulgate regulations for their proper and efficientadministration.
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Commending Daphne Tamara Fulson.
Commending the Honorable M. Kirkland Cox.
Prohibited discrimination; status as activemilitary or a military spouse. Prohibits discrimination in publicaccommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person'sstatus as active military or a military spouse.
Tangible personal property taxes; classificationof certain motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. Providesthat the separate class of property for rate purposes that includesmotor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers with a gross vehicle weightof 10,000 pounds or more used by a motor carrier engaged in interstatecommerce on a for-hire basis shall also include such vehicles usedto transport passengers. Under current law, this class of propertyonly includes such vehicles if they are used to transport property.
Telemedicine. Clarifies that nothing shallpreclude coverage of telehealth services by an insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policiesproviding hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverageon an expense-incurred basis; a corporation providing individualor group accident and sickness subscription contracts; or a healthmaintenance organization providing a health care plan for healthcare services. The bill requires the Board of Medical AssistanceServices to amend the state plan for medical assistance to providefor payment of medical assistance for remote patient monitoring servicesprovided via telemedicine for certain high-risk patients, and providesfor the establishment of a practitioner-patient relationship viatelemedicine for the prescribing of Schedule II through VI controlledsubstances.
Department of Veterans Services; Military Spouse Liaison; position created. Establishes the position of Military Spouse Liaison (the Liaison) in the Department of Veterans Services to conduct outreach and advocate on behalf of military spouses in the Commonwealth. The bill directs the Liaison to report by December 1 of each year through the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services to the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs, the Governor, and the General Assembly on the work of the Liaison and any legislative recommendations. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.