Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the HonorableYvonne Bond Miller's service in the Virginia General Assembly.
School board employees; civil cause of actionagainst principals, division superintendents, and school boards forworkplace injuries. Permits any school board employee who suffersbodily injury in the course of his employment on school board propertyafter notifying the appropriate school principal, division superintendent,or school board that a working condition or situation was reasonablylikely to lead to such bodily injury to bring a civil cause of actionin a court of competent jurisdiction for appropriate relief, includingdamages, against any such school principal, division superintendent, or school board that acted negligently, recklessly, or willfullyin failing to remedy the condition or situation that led to such bodily injury.
Commending Sandra Gioia Treadway.
Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children;state parks; penalty. Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offenseoccurred on or after July 1, 2024, shall as part of his sentencebe forever prohibited from going, for the purpose of having any contactwhatsoever with children who are not in his custody, within 100 feetof the premises of any area of a state park where he knows or hasreason to know that children are present. A violation is a Class6 felony.
Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records;law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-timeor part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a policedepartment or sheriff's office that is a part of or administeredby the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof and whois responsible for the enforcement of the penal, traffic, or motorvehicle laws of the Commonwealth having a need for juvenile offensehistory or identifying information of a juvenile and his family members,including juvenile names, parent or guardian names, addresses, datesof birth, photographs, and phone numbers, and (ii) with the exceptionof medical, psychiatric, and psychological records and reports, any victim, as defined in existing law, when release of the confidentialinformation is only to notify such victim of a juvenile's releasefrom the custody of a local or regional juvenile detention center,community group home, residential care facility, mental health facility,secure alternative placement, or commitment to the Department ofJuvenile Justice for any offense such juvenile committed against suchvictim. This bill contains technical amendments.
Standards of Learning; programs of instruction;civics education; instruction on local government. Requires theBoard of Education to include in the Standards of Learning for Virginiaand United States Government for grade 12 and requires each schoolboard to provide as a part of any Virginia and U.S. Government courseor civic education course offered to students in grade 12 instructionon local government, including instruction on the types of localitiesin the Commonwealth and the structure and functions of local governmentsin the Commonwealth. The bill also requires the Board to considerin its criteria for awarding a diploma seal for excellence in civicseducation and understanding of the state and federal constitutionsand the democratic model of government the successful completionof government or civics courses that include instruction on the structuresand functions of local government.
Elections; voting equipment and systems; StateBoard approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requiresvoting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to producea printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that showsthe date and time the voter's ballot was cast, the voter's numbercorresponding to the order in which ballots were cast, and a listof all the voter's selections on the ballot as recorded by the votingsystem.
Advertisement of legal notices; website.Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's websiteinstead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaperhaving general circulation in the locality.
Health insurance; disclosure of summary healthinformation. Requires, to the extent permitted by various protectedhealth information privacy laws, a group health plan that has 50or more participants to disclose information that summarizes theclaims history, claims expenses, or type of claims experienced byindividuals for whom a plan sponsor has provided health benefitsunder a group health plan to the plan sponsor if the plan sponsor requests the summary health information for the purposes of (i) obtaining premium bids from health plans for providing health insurance coverageunder the group health plan or (ii) modifying, amending, or terminatingthe group health plan.
Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutessecond degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not lessthan five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious actthat resulted in the killing of another involved the manufacture,sale, gift, or distribution of a Schedule I or II controlled substanceto another and (i) such other person's death results from his useof the controlled substance and (ii) the controlled substance is the proximate cause of his death. The bill provides that venue fora prosecution of this crime shall lie in the locality where the underlyingfelony occurred, where the use of the controlled substance occurred,or where death occurred. The bill also provides that if a persongave or distributed a Schedule I or II controlled substance onlyas an accommodation to another individual who is not an inmate ina community correctional facility, local correctional facility, orstate correctional facility, or in the custody of an employee thereof,and not with intent to profit thereby from any consideration receivedor expected nor to induce the recipient of the controlled substanceto use or become addicted to or dependent upon such controlled substance,he is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
