Professions and occupations; expediting the issuance of credentials to spouses of military service members. Provides for the expedited issuance of credentials to the spouses of military service members who are (i) ordered to federal active duty under Title 10 of the United States Code or (ii) veterans who have left active duty service within one year of the submission of an application to a board if the spouse accompanies the service member to the Commonwealth or an adjoining state or the District of Columbia. Under current law, the expedited review is provided more generally for active duty members of the military who are the subject of a military transfer to the Commonwealth. The bill also authorizes a regulatory board within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation or the Department of Health Professions or any other board in Title 54.1 (Professions and Occupations) to waive any requirement relating to experience if the board determines that the documentation provided by the applicant supports such waiver. This bill is identical to HB 967.
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Celebrating the life of Bittle Wilson PorterfieldIII.
Commending the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke.
Celebrating the life of Dr. James I. Robertson,Jr.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable ElliotSchewel.
Celebrating the life of Lessie Lula Jones Polk.
Celebrating the life of Officer Katherine MaryThyne.
Department of Education; learning managementsystem. Directs the Department of Education to obtain a statewidelearning management system for use in public schools by the startof the 2022-2023 school year.
Study; JCOTS to study consumer data privacy in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to establish an advisory committee to study consumer data privacy in the Commonwealth. The advisory committee is directed to review and document prevalent means of data collection by both the public and private sector, identify uses of data that should be encouraged and incentivized, recommend how to best protect personal and consumer data from misuse, and develop potential legislative recommendations.
JLARC; association health plans for the individual market;review. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC),as part of its review and evaluation of the agencies and programs under theSecretary of Health and Human Services, to examine and review the implicationsof the establishment, implementation, and administration of a program, to beknown as the Commonwealth Care Health Benefits Program (the Program), underwhich a division of the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), ornonprofit corporation established by the Commission, will be the sponsor ofassociation health plans through which it will sell individual health insurancecoverage in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that JLARC shall request andconsider information and input from the Commission's Bureau of Insurance andthe Secretary of Health and Human Resources. The bill provides that elements ofthe Program to be reviewed and examined by JLARC shall include the following:(i) implementation of the Program would be contingent on the approval of theU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services of a state innovation waiver under§ 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); (ii) the Commission will retain staffsufficient to establish and implement the Program; (iii) the Program willarrange for a number of third-party administrators, sufficient to ensurecompetition but in no event fewer than two; (iv) the Program will design andimplement health plans that are comparable those currently sold through thefederal exchange; (v) the covered benefits provided under a plan offeredthrough the Program would provide coverage that a large group plan orassociation health plan subject to the federal Employee Retirement IncomeSecurity Act of 1974 (ERISA) is required to provide so long as one or morehealth plans provide additional benefits as may be required to provide coveragethat is at least as comprehensive and affordable as plans currently offered onthe exchange pursuant to the ACA or otherwise to comply with the Guardrailrequirements of the ACA; (vi) the Program will address the establishment of areinsurance program; (vii) health plan premiums for individuals with ahousehold income between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal povertylevel would be subsidized; (viii) the Program will offer a cost-sharingreduction feature that removes disincentives to Program participation bylow-income individuals who are enrolled in the Medicaid program; (ix)individuals will still be able to purchase individual health insurance coverageoutside of the Program; (x) premiums for the plans offered through the Programwill be set by the third-party administrators, subject to approval by theCommission with assistance of qualified actuaries; (xi) the Program would bedesigned and operated in order to ensure that any shortfall in revenues isaddressed by the reinsurance program and by self-funding a reserve that isdetermined by the Corporation's actuary to be adequate, and (xii) the Programwill include premium incentives for compliance with wellness or chronic diseasemanagement benefit programs. The bill requires JLARC to report its findings andconclusions to the Joint Committee for Health and Human Resources Oversight.