Del. Karrie Delaney

Hope Card Program; permanent protective orders. Requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Courtof Virginia to develop and implement a Hope Card Program (the Program) for the issuance of a Hope Card to any person who has been issueda permanent protective order by any general district court, juvenileand domestic relations court, or circuit court. The bill states thata Hope Card issued pursuant to the Program shall be a durable, plastic, wallet-sized card containing essential information about the protectiveorder, such as the identifying information and characteristics ofthe person subject to the protective order, the issuance and expirationdate of the protective order, the terms of the protective order,and the names of any other persons protected by the protective order.

Study; Interstate 66 Corridor Improvement Plan.Requests the Commonwealth Transportation Board to study safety, congestion,and tolling concerns on Interstate 66 and to develop and adopt anInterstate 66 Corridor Improvement Plan.

Grand larceny; threshold. Increases from$500 to $1,500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goodsor chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grandlarceny. The bill increases the threshold by the same amount forthe classification of certain property crimes.

Study; JLARC; effects of gun violence on communities;report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commissionto study the social, physical, emotional, and economic effects ofgun violence on communities across the Commonwealth.

Interest on fines and costs in criminal casesand traffic infractions. Eliminates the accrual of interest onany fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involvinga traffic infraction. The bill provides that any such fine or coststhat have accrued interest prior to July 1, 2020, shall cease toaccrue interest on July 1, 2020, and such accrued interest may bewaived by any court. A person who owes fines and costs on which interesthas accrued may move any court in which he owes fines and costs to waive the interest that accrued on such fines and costs and shallhave such interest waived for any period of incarceration.

State plan for medical assistance services;orthotic devices. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Servicesto include in the state plan for medical assistance services pursuantto Title XIX of the United States Social Security Act a provisionfor the payment of medical assistance for medically necessary orthoticdevices, including braces, splints, and supports, for adults enrolledin the Commonwealth's program of medical assistance services.

Mandatory student activity fees; referendum.Provides that the governing boards of public institutions of highereducation shall not increase mandatory student activity fees by greater than two percent relative to the previous academic year unless theincrease is approved by a majority of students in a campus referendum.

Study; JLARC; teacher salaries and benefits in the Commonwealth; regional competitiveness of such salaries and benefits; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study teacher salaries and benefits in the Commonwealth, including the regional competitiveness of such salaries and benefits, by analyzing the relationship between (i) salaries and benefits provided to teachers in the Commonwealth, states adjoining the Commonwealth, and the District of Columbia and (ii) the recruitment and retention of teachers in each such state and the District of Columbia.

Commending the Loudoun Hunt.

Subdivision ordinance; energy efficiency andrenewable energy provisions. Authorizes a local governing bodyto include in its subdivision ordinance provisions for establishingminimum standards of energy efficiency and establishing and maintainingaccess to sources of renewable energy.