Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority;Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment established; workforceand higher education alignment. Directs the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to establish an Office of Educationand Labor Market Alignment (the Office) to coordinate data analysison workforce and higher education alignment and translate data topartners. The Office shall provide a unified, consistent source ofinformation or analysis for policy development and implementationrelated to talent development and shall partner with the State Councilof Higher Education for Virginia, institutions of higher education,the Virginia Employment Commission, GO Virginia, and other relevantentities to offer resources and expertise related to education andlabor market alignment.
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Broadband services; education. Authorizesschool boards to appropriate funds for the purposes of promoting,facilitating, and encouraging the expansion and operation of broadbandservices for educational purposes. The bill authorizes school boardsto partner with private broadband service providers to promote, implement,and subsidize broadband for educational purposes to the householdsof students who would qualify for (i) a child nutrition program or(ii) any other program recognized or adopted by the local schoolboard as a measuring standard to identify at-risk students.
Tourism improvement districts. Authorizesany locality to create a local tourism improvement district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund tourismpromotion activities and capital improvements. Under the bill, thelocality is authorized to contract with a nonprofit entity to administerthe activities and improvements.
Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fundand Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled,Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial assistance from the Fund to certain low-income and middle-income Virginia students who are enrolled in an educational program at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher educationthat leads to an occupation in a certain high-demand field. The billcontains provisions for student eligibility, financial assistanceaward amounts, and data reporting.
Retail sales and transient occupancy taxes on room rentals. Provides that retail sales and hotel taxes on transient room rentals shall be computed on the basis of the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. For those cases in which a hotel or similar establishment contracts with an intermediary to facilitate the sale of the room and the intermediary charges the customer for the room and such facilitation efforts, the bill requires the intermediary to separately state the taxes on the bill or invoice provided to the customer and to collect the taxes based upon the total charges or the total price paid for the use or possession of the room. The bill provides that an estimated amount equivalent to the sales tax revenue attributable to the charge for the service provided by the intermediary shall be dedicated to the Virginia Tourism Authority to administer grants for tourism promotion.
Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt by June 30, 2022, regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Program), consisting of a number of total nitrogen and total phosphorous waste load allocation reductions assigned to particular water treatment facilities with schedules for compliance. The bill provides that the ENRC Program shall operate in lieu of certain Chesapeake Bay waste load regulations. The bill directs the Board to modify affected discharge permits to incorporate the provisions of the ENRC Program and requires certain compliance plans due from treatment works by February 1, 2023, to address the requirements of the ENRC Program. The bill provides that the funding of certain design and installation costs for implementing nutrient upgrades pursuant to the ENRC Program shall be eligible for grants from the Water Quality Improvement Fund. The ENRC Program is required to proceed regardless of whether such grants will exceed the available funds in the Fund for a given fiscal year. The bill lists the projects and the total nitrogen or total phosphorus waste load allocation reductions that specified facilities are to complete. The bill provides that when grants to finance nutrient removal technology reach a sum sufficient to fund the completion of the ENRC Program at all publicly owned treatment works, certain General Assembly committees shall review funding needs and mechanisms. Finally, the bill directs the State Water Control Board to convene a stakeholder group during the adoption of regulations required to carry out the provisions of the bill and provides that such adoption by the Board shall be exempt from certain procedures of the Administrative Process Act. The bill provides that the priority projects and waste load allocation reductions that it sets forth shall be deemed to implement goals of the Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan.
Port of Virginia tax credits; sunset. Extendsthe sunset for the international trade facility tax credit, thebarge and rail usage tax credit, and the port volume increase taxcredit from taxable years before January 1, 2022, to taxable yearsbefore January 1, 2025.
Promises to appear after the issuance of a summons. Eliminates the requirement that a promise to appear be completedafter the issuance of a summons for a misdemeanor traffic offense.The bill provides that an accused shall be released from custodyafter a summons has been issued.
Property; required disclosures for buyer toexercise due diligence; flood risk report. Requires the Departmentof Conservation and Recreation (the Department) to (i) develop, maintain,and update on its public website a statewide database and an officialmap of any parcel of real property in the Commonwealth and (ii) makeavailable on its website a copy of a flood risk report for each parcelof real property in the Commonwealth, the details of which are outlinedin the bill. The bill adds obtaining a flood risk report from theDepartment to the list of things a purchaser is advised to exercise due diligence on when purchasing a property. The bill also providesthat an owner of residential real property located in the Commonwealthwho has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit is a repetitive riskloss structure, as defined in the bill, shall disclose such factto the purchaser on a form provided by the Real Estate Board on itswebsite. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022.The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a generalappropriation act.
Unrestorably incompetent defendant; competencyreport. Provides that in cases where a defendant was previouslydetermined to be unrestorably incompetent in the past two years,a competency report may recommend that the court find the defendantunrestorably incompetent to stand trial, and the court may proceedwith the disposition of the case based on such recommendation. Undercurrent law, the defendant is required to undergo treatment to restorehis competency before the court can find a defendant unrestorablyincompetent to stand trial.