Del. Mark L. Cole

Commonwealth Transportation Board; revenue-sharingfunds. Increases the maximum matching allocation that the CommonwealthTransportation Board may make to a locality from $5 million to $10million and increases the portion of such funds that such localitymay use for the maintenance of highway systems from $2.5 millionto $5 million.

Telephone privacy protection. Requires a telephone solicitor to immediately disclose who is calling and what property, good, or service is being offered. The measure also prohibits caller ID spoofing, which is defined in the measure as causing any caller identification service to transmit caller identification information that represents or states that the call originates from a telephone with an area code assigned to an area in the Commonwealth or from a location in the Commonwealth if the person on whose behalf the telephone solicitation call is being made does not conduct business from a location in the Commonwealth.The measure prohibits a telephone solicitor from making a telephone solicitation call or the use of an automatic dialing-announcing device in connection with making a call to any subscriber who has registered with the Virginia Do Not Call Registry. The measure requires the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to set up by January 1, 2021, the Virginia Do Not Call Registry for subscribers who wish to block all solicitation calls and calls that use or are made in connection with automatic dialing-announcing devices. The measure becomes effective three months after the Virginia Do Not Call Registry is established by the Department.

General Assembly meetings; streaming and recording. Requires the Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of theSenate to ensure that every (i) subcommittee or committee meetingof a standing committee of the General Assembly, regardless of meetingdate, and (ii) floor session of the House of Delegates or the Senate,including any joint session of the houses, is streamed with closedcaptioning, recorded and archived. The bill defines "stream" and specifiesthat a qualifying meeting is one the date and time of which havebeen scheduled on a public website of any agency of the General Assemblyfor at least one hour prior to the meeting and that takes place inthe State Capitol, the Pocahontas Building, or the General AssemblyBuilding in Richmond. The bill has a delayed effective date of October1, 2020.

Commending Mission BBQ.

Public institutions of higher education; chiefexecutive officer compensation. Provides mandates for when any governing board of a public institution of higher education or committeeof such board considers increasing the compensation of the institution'schief executive officer as defined in § 23.1-100 or amending theboard's policies and procedures relating to the compensation of thechief executive officer. The bill provides that the board or committee shall provide written notice of the rationale for such amendmentor the rationale for, source of funding for, and amount of such increaseto the public in advance of any meeting at which the board or committeevotes on the amendment or increase. The bill also provides that membersof the public shall be provided the opportunity to provide publiccomment on the compensation, that the board or committee shall voteon the compensation in an open meeting, and that no executive compensationincrease shall be approved in a year in which there is a tuitionincrease.

Public institutions of higher education; tuitionand mandatory fee increase; student approval. Provides that noincrease in undergraduate tuition or mandatory fees approved by agoverning board of a public institution of higher education shalltake effect unless such increase receives an affirmative vote ofat least two-thirds of undergraduate students enrolled in such institution.

Virginia Security for Public Deposits Act; collateral for public deposits. Specifies that required collateral of a qualified public depository must be deposited with a qualified escrow agent within two business days of accepting public deposits. Current law requires deposits to be collateralized at the time of deposit.

Commending the Loudoun South Little Leaguebaseball team.

Milk; definition; misbranding; prohibition.Defines milk as the lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammaland provides that a food product is unlawfully misbranded if its label states that it is milk and it fails to meet such definition, exceptfor human breast milk. The bill directs the Board of Agricultureand Consumer Services to implement a plan to ban all products misbrandedas milk.

Virginia Security for Public Deposits Act; collateralfor public deposits; timeframe. Requires a qualified public depositoryto deposit eligible collateral with a qualified escrow agent equalto or in excess of the required collateral within two business daysof accepting a public deposit. Current law requires deposits to becollateralized at the time of deposit.