Paid family and medical leave program. Requiresthe Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer apaid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January1, 2024. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employeesfor family and medical leave. Funding for the program is providedthrough premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning in2023. The amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's averageweekly wage, not to exceed 80 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted annually to reflect changesin the statewide average weekly wage. The measure caps the durationof paid leave at 12 weeks in any application year. The bill provides self-employed individuals the option of participating in the program.
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Income tax; subtraction for low-income military veterans with a permanent service-connected disability. Provides an income tax subtraction for the military retirement income received by a veteran who has been rated with a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability. The bill provides that the subtraction is available only to those taxpayers whose federal adjusted gross income is no greater than 150 percent of the federal poverty level for a four-person household.
Drug Treatment Court Act; authorization andavailability. Provides that any jurisdiction or jurisdictionsintending or proposing to establish a drug treatment court shallnot be denied permission under the Code of Virginia to establishsuch court solely on the basis of funding such court. The bill alsoprovides that a drug treatment court shall be available to everydefendant irrespective of the jurisdiction.
Constitutional amendment (first resolution);General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate tothree full terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegatesto six full terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service forboth consecutive and nonconsecutive terms. Service for a partialterm does not preclude serving the allowed number of full terms. The limits apply to terms of service beginning on and after the startof the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002; affected local jurisdictions and public entities; consideration of economic impact.Requires a private entity requesting approval to develop and operatea qualifying transportation facility under the Public-Private TransportationAct of 1995 or a qualifying project under the Public-Private EducationFacilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002 to include an economicimpact analysis identifying any potentially adverse economic or revenueimpacts a potential comprehensive agreement may have on all affectedlocal jurisdictions. The bill further provides that affected localjurisdictions be given reasonable opportunity to consult with theparties concerning the nature and scope of the impacts and regardingmeasures that may be taken to avoid or mitigate the impacts or make the agreement revenue-neutral. The bill directs each responsiblepublic entity to certify compliance with the review of the economicimpact analysis provisions.
Law enforcement; use of force; data collectionand reporting requirement. Requires state and local law-enforcementofficers to collect data on use of force incidents involving law enforcement and forward the data to the Superintendent of StatePolice, which the Department of State Police shall include in theannual Crime in Virginia report. Such incidents include the following:(i) any fatality to a civilian; (ii) any serious bodily injury toa civilian; or (iii) in the absence of either death or serious injury,a discharged firearm by a state or local law-enforcement officerat or in the direction of a person. The bill specifies information required to be included in such incident report.
Petition for vacatur and expungement of convictionsand police and court records of victims of human trafficking.Allows any person who was a victim of human trafficking at the timeof an offense that led to a criminal charge or conviction of certaincrimes to petition the court to vacate such conviction and expungethe police and court records related to such conviction or to expungethe police and court records related to such charge. The bill provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a person's participationin an offense was a result of having been a victim of human traffickingif there is official documentation, defined in the bill, of the petitioner'sstatus as a victim of human trafficking at the time of the offense.
Superintendent of Public Instruction; UrbanTeacher Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Urban Teacher Fund and Program, to be administered by the Superintendentof Public Instruction, for the purpose of providing grants to personsemployed in urban school divisions with teacher shortages who remain employed by the urban school division for a period of at least fiveyears.
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners.Allows any person serving a sentence imposed upon a convictionfor a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, who (i) is 55years of age or older and has served at least 15 years of the sentenceimposed or (ii) is 50 years of age or older and has served at least20 years of the sentence imposed, to petition the Parole Board forconditional release.