Celebrating the life of Jon Robert Tabb.
Sponsored bills
Education Excellence for All Program established.Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, toapply for a one-year, renewable Education Excellence for All SavingsAccount, defined in the bill, that consists of an amount that isequivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standardsof Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposesand apportioned to the school division in which the qualified studentresides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax fundingin basic aid and any per pupil share of state special education fundingfor which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits theparent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such accountfor certain qualified expenses of the qualified student, includingtuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementaryschool or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. Thebill also contains provisions relating to program and account administrationby the Department of the Treasury and a third party that serves asprogram administrator pursuant to a contract with the Department.
Celebrating the life of Richard Edward Railey,Jr.
Statewide prioritization process; primary evacuation routes. Adds maintenance of primary evacuation routes to thelist of factors that must be considered by the Commonwealth TransportationBoard as part of the statewide prioritization process for projectselection. The bill directs the Board, in incorporating this new factor into the prioritization process, to not assign a weight to such factorand, instead, to set a bonus point value that may be added for projectsthat include maintenance of primary evacuation routes and shall applysuch bonus point values to such projects when applicable.
Commending Rick and Cheryl Rowlands.
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
Animal control officers; additional training.Increases the number of hours of required additional training inanimal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years forall animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employedby a locality.
Commending Amanda L. Newins.
Commending Scott Chambers.
Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabisoil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminatingagainst an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oilpursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitionerfor the treatment or to eliminate the symptoms of the employee'sdiagnosed condition or disease, with certain exceptions, by specifyingthat such use must conform to the laws of the Commonwealth and thatsuch protections extend to the employees of the Commonwealth andother public bodies.