Del. Ibraheem S. Samirah

Commending Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Commending the Canines-N-Kids Foundation.

School Divisions of Innovation; local assessments. Allows a local school board, when applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation, to apply to the Board of Education to replace the Virginia Studies and Civics and Economics Standards of Learning assessments with local assessments that include performance-based assessments. The bill requires any such application to (i) demonstrate that the proposed local assessment requires that students demonstrate the knowledge and skills required by the relevant Standards of Learning and that students demonstrate one or more of the skills and qualities of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, or citizenship and (ii) provide evidence of the local school board's capacity to administer and score performance-based assessments.

Commending the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.

Commending Girl Scout Troop 56002.

Commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. RobertRussa Moton.

Safe reporting of overdoses; immunity from prosecution. Providesthat no individual (i) who sought or obtained emergency medical attention forhimself or for another individual because of a drug or alcohol-related overdoseor (ii) is experiencing a drug or alcohol-related overdose and anotherindividual, in good faith, seeks or obtains emergency medical attention forsuch individual shall be prosecuted for unlawful purchase, possession, orconsumption of alcohol, simple possession of a controlled substance, possessionof marijuana, intoxication in public, or possession of controlledparaphernalia. Under current law, an affirmative defense against such offensesis available for an individual who sought or obtained emergency medicalattention for himself or for another individual because of a drug-related oralcohol-related overdose. The bill also adds the statewide poison controlsystem to the list of emergency care providers to whom individuals mustcontemporaneously report such overdoses in order to qualify for immunity fromprosecution. The bill also states that no individual who is immune fromprosecution pursuant to the provisions of the bill shall be found to be inviolation of any term or condition of probation, parole, postreleasesupervision, pretrial supervision, a suspended sentence, or bail, bond, orrecognizance on the basis of evidence obtained as a result of an individual'sseeking or obtaining emergency medical attention and that the real or personalproperty of an individual who is immune from prosecution that was used inconnection with or derived from the specified offenses shall not be subject toforfeiture to the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that immunity fromprosecution does not apply to an individual who seeks or obtains emergencymedical attention for himself or another individual, or who is experiencing anoverdose when another individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attentionfor such individual, during the execution of a search warrant or during theconduct of a lawful search or a lawful arrest.

Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program established. Establishes the Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of annually providing to each Historically Black College or University in the Commonwealth (Hampton University, Norfolk State University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University) such sums as are necessary for each such institution to annually provide scholarships on a competitive basis to no more than two students who (i) identify as African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Native American or Native Alaskan, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; (ii) are accepted to or enrolled in such institution's education preparation program; and (iii) are eligible for a federal Pell Grant to attend such institution. The bill provides that each such scholarship would consist of the following sums: (a) the cost of tuition, mandatory fees, room and board, and textbooks at such institution; (b) the recipient's teacher licensure fees; (c) $5,000 toward teacher professional development activities for the recipient, including coursework, seminars, and conferences; and (d) $10,000 toward mentorship of the recipient by an experienced teacher who is deemed by the relevant school board to be highly effective and able to provide high quality mentorship. The bill requires each student who is awarded a scholarship pursuant to the Program to agree in writing to (1) teach in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth in which at least 75 percent of the enrolled students qualify for free or reduced price lunch or are members of families whose income is below the federal poverty guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upon graduation for a period that is at least as long as the period during which the recipient used scholarship funds to attend a Historically Black College or University and (2) be mentored by an experienced teacher, as described in clause (d), during such period of employment.

Fossil fuel projects moratorium; clean energy mandates; civil penalties; Green New Deal Act. Establishes a moratorium, effective January 1, 2021, on approval by any state agency or political subdivision of any approval required for (i) electric generating facilities that generate fossil fuel energy through the combustion of a fossil fuel resource; (ii) import or export terminals for fossil fuel resources; (iii) certain maintenance activities relating to an import or export terminal for a fossil fuel resource; (iv) gathering lines or pipelines for the transport of any fossil fuel resource that requires the use of eminent domain on private property; (v) certain maintenance activities relating to such gathering lines or pipelines; (vi) refineries of a fossil fuel resource; and (vii) exploration for any type of fossil fuel, unless preempted by applicable federal law. The measure also requires that at least 80 percent of the electricity sold by a retail electric supplier in calendar years 2028 through 2035 be generated from clean energy resources. In calendar year 2036 and every calendar year thereafter, 100 percent of the electricity sold by a retail electric supplier is required to be generated from clean energy resources. The clean energy mandates apply to a public utility or other person that sells not less than 1,000 megawatt hours of electric energy to retail customers or generates not less than 1,000 megawatt hours of electric energy for use by the person. The Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy is authorized to bring actions for injunctions to enforce these requirements. The measure requires the Department to adopt a Climate Action Plan that addresses all aspects of climate change, including mitigation, adaptation, resiliency, and assistance in the transition from current energy sources to clean renewable energy. The measure provides that residents of the Commonwealth and organizations shall have the legal standing to sue to ensure that its provisions and any Climate Action Plan are enforced. The measure requires (a) a 36 percent reduction in electric energy consumption in buildings by 2035, (b) the establishment of job training programs and energy worker protections, (c) transitional assistance for workers in the fossil fuel industry and affected communities, and (d) environmental justice protections. The measure provides that any retail electric supplier that fails to meet any goal or benchmark is liable for a civil penalty equal to twice the cost of the financial investment necessary to meet such goal or mandate that was not achieved, or three times the cost of the financial investment necessary to meet such goal or benchmark that was not achieved if not met in an environmental justice community, defined in the bill.

Institutions of higher education; intercollegiateathletics; student-athletes; compensation and representation. Prohibits anyprivate institution of higher education, baccalaureate public institution ofhigher education, athletic association, athletic conference, or otherorganization with authority over intercollegiate athletics from (i) providing aprospective student-athlete with compensation that results from the use of thestudent's name, image, or likeness; (ii) prohibiting or preventing astudent-athlete from earning from another individual or entity compensationthat results from the use of the student's name, image, or likeness, except incertain limited circumstances; (iii) prohibiting or preventing astudent-athlete from obtaining professional representation by an athlete agentor legal representation by an attorney licensed to practice law in theCommonwealth; or (iv) declaring ineligible for or revoking a scholarshipprovided to a student-athlete who earns compensation that results from the useof the student's name, image, or likeness. The bill prohibits any athleticassociation, athletic conference, or other organization with authority overintercollegiate athletics from prohibiting or preventing a private institutionof higher education or baccalaureate public institution of higher educationfrom becoming a member of or participating in intercollegiate athleticssponsored by such association, conference, or organization as a consequence ofthe compensation of a student-athlete at such institution that results from theuse of the student-athlete's name, image, or likeness. The foregoing provisionsof the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. The bill alsorequires the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System to convene awork group consisting of such members as the Chancellor deems appropriate toconsider and make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly nolater July 1, 2022, relating to the compensation and representation ofstudent-athletes enrolled at comprehensive community colleges in theCommonwealth.