Sales tax; exemption for personal protectiveequipment; emergency. Establishes a retail sales and use taxexemption for personal protective equipment, defined in the bill.The exemption would be available to any business that has in placea COVID-19 safety protocol that complies with the Emergency TemporaryStandard promulgated by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industryand that meets other criteria. The exemption would sunset one dayafter the first day following the expiration of the last executiveorder issued by the Governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic andthe termination of the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard andany permanent COVID-19 regulations adopted by the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Celebrating the life of William Henry Edwards,Sr.
Department of Elections; public availabilityof instructions and guidance directed to local elections officials.Requires the instructions and guidance directed or provided by theState Board of Elections or the Department of Elections to electoral boards and registrars regarding the administration or conduct ofelections, including the registration of voters, to be made publiclyavailable on the official website of the Department of Electionswithin 24 hours of being issued to the electoral boards and registrars.
Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. DesignatesMay, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Cystic Fibrosis AwarenessMonth in Virginia.
Hearing notice by localities. Expands fromonly localities in Planning District 23 to all localities a provisionthat provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or havinggeneral circulation in the locality and the newspaper fails to publishthe notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met certain noticerequirements so long as the notice was published in the next availableedition. Under current law, this provision that was created by the2020 Regular Session and only applies to localities in Planning District23 will expire on July 1, 2022. The provision in the bill as itapplies to all localities will also expire on July 1, 2022.
Local electoral boards and general registrar;disclosure of certain gifts and funding. Requires the disclosureof any gift, including money or services, given by a private individual,corporation, partnership, trust, or other third party to a localelectoral board or an office of the general registrar. Such disclosureis required to be made to the clerk of the governing body withinfive days of receipt and shall include the amount or value of thegift, the date of receipt, and the name and address of the donor.The disclosed information shall be posted on the official website of the county or city. The bill provides that the disclosure requirementsdo not apply to money or services paid out of the budget of the localityor provided through the general appropriation act established bythe General Assembly.
State parks; Disabled Veteran's Passport.Expands the Disabled Veteran's Passport program to all U.S. veteranswith a service-connected disability. Currently, a veteran must be100 percent disabled to be eligible for the program, which providesfree entry into state parks and a 50 percent discount on campingand swimming fees, picnic shelter rentals, and other equipment rentalsprovided by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Absentee voting; definition of postmark; legibility requirement. Requires an absentee ballot returned to the generalregistrar after the closing of the polls on election day to be legiblypostmarked on or before the date of the election in order to be counted.Current law does not specify that the postmark must be legible. Thebill defines postmark, for purposes of absentee ballots returnedafter the closing of the polls on election day, to mean (i) an officialUnited States Postal Service imprint indicating the date of mailingor any other official indicia of the United States Postal Serviceused to identify the date of mailing or (ii) the mailing confirmationdata of a commercial delivery service.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable AugustusBenton Chafin, Jr.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable AugustusBenton Chafin, Jr.