Perinatal health care providers; implicit biastraining. Requires the Board of Health to amend its regulationsto require that each hospital develop and implement policies requiringall perinatal health care providers to complete an in-person andinteractive training on implicit bias.
Division of Legislative Automated Systems; duties; cybersecurity department. Directs the Division of LegislativeAutomated Systems to create and manage a cybersecurity departmentto monitor the technological systems of the General Assembly of Virginiaand the agencies that directly serve the General Assembly for cybersecuritythreats and to respond to and mitigate the effects of such threats.The bill provides that any employee assigned to the department shallkeep all records, findings, and information related to his job confidentialand is subject to a $10,000 fine for any breach of confidentiality.
Peninsula Airport Commission. Adds to thePeninsula Airport Commission (the Commission) two members from theCity of Poquoson, two members from the City of Williamsburg, one member from James City County, and one member from York County, appointedby the governing bodies thereof. The bill provides that any suchlocality is automatically excluded from the Commission if it fails to pay its proportionate share of the cost of participation by June30, 2023. The bill repeals various provisions authorizing certainlocalities to join the Commission upon the terms and consent of theCommission. The bill provides a schedule for original appointmentsand requires the City of Newport News to determine which two of itsfour members will continue as members and provides that the termsof the other two members representing the City of Newport News expireon July 1, 2022.
Larceny of a catalytic converter; penalty. Provides that any person who conspires, confederates, or combines with another to commit larceny or counsels, assists, aids, or abets another in the performance of a larceny of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle where the value of such catalytic converter is less than $1,000 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill was incorporated into SB 729.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.
Suspension of the imposition of taxes on gasolineand diesel fuels; emergency. Suspends the imposition and collectionof the state and regional taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel untilJuly 1, 2023. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Commending the Honorable Mark Cole.
Health insurance; coverage for proton therapy.Requires any health insurer, corporation, or health maintenance organizationissuing an insurance policy, subscription contract, or health careplan to provide coverage for physician-prescribed proton therapyfor the treatment of cancer if proton radiation therapy is recommendedas the preferred radiation therapy treatment by the enrollee's healthcare provider.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable RobertTata.
Commending Daphne Tamara Fulson.
