Rep. Michael Feggans

Commending Bishop Kim W. Brown.

Celebrating the life of Everett Earl Walle,Jr.

Commending Claudia Flores.

Commending Blake Corum.

Commending Dr. Ben Fitzgerald III.

Commending the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; participationby veteran-owned small businesses. Requires all public bodiesto include in their goals for participation by small businesses aminimum of five percent participation by veteran-owned businessesand service disabled veteran-owned businesses. Current law only requiresa goal of three percent participation by service disabled veteran-ownedbusinesses and does not impose such goal upon local public bodies.The bill also requires the Department of General Services to updatethe eVA portal to include a category for veteran-owned and servicedisabled veteran-owned small businesses that is conspicuous to thegeneral public to easily display and search set-aside opportunitiesfor such businesses.

Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps established.Establishes the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps for thepurposes of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondaryschool teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awardingscholarships to students seeking to obtain teaching degrees and certificationsat participating institutions and requiring such students upon completionof their degree or certificate to fill teaching positions for oneyear for each year of scholarship receipt at a high-need school,as defined pursuant to federal law. The bill also creates the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps Scholarship Fund and Program forthe purpose of funding such scholarships at the participating institutionsof Longwood University, Norfolk State University, Radford University,and Virginia Commonwealth University. Finally, the bill establishes the 12-member Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps Commissionto administer the Program and directs the Commission to begin meetingon or after September 1, 2024, and to establish the parameters forthe Program and award the first scholarships prior to the beginningof the 2025-2026 academic year.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment; pilot program. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to establish a pilot program to make electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment available for military members, veterans, first responders, law-enforcement officers, and certain agents of federal agencies and family members of the aforementioned individuals. The bill requires the Department to establish regulations for administration of the pilot program.

Broadband access in farmland and rural areas; information and reporting. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to create and maintain, in consultation with the Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor, the Broadband Advisory Council, and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, an interactive tool or application to provide current information on connectivity and broadband access in rural areas of the Commonwealth and on farmland in the Commonwealth and permits such tool or application to be incorporated into the Department's website. The bill also directs the Department to, with the assistance of any necessary agencies of the Commonwealth, collect and incorporate information and data regarding connectivity and broadband access in rural areas and on farmland into such interactive tool or application and annually report to the Broadband Advisory Council any such information and data.