Celebrating the life of Frederick Cameron.
Sponsored bills
Commending Major Wayne R. Lee, Jr., USA, Ret.
Commending the Virginia Piedmont Heritage AreaAssociation.
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and correctional officers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill provides that the COVID-19 virus is established by a positive diagnostic test for COVID-19, an incubation period consistent with COVID-19, and signs and symptoms of COVID-19 that require medical treatment. The bill provides that such presumption applies to any death or disability occurring on or after March 12, 2020, caused by infection from the COVID-19 virus, provided that for any such death or disability that occurred on or after March 12, 2020, and prior to December 31, 2021, the claimant received a diagnosis of COVID-19 from a licensed physician, after either a presumptive positive test or a laboratory confirmed test for COVID-19, and presented with signs and symptoms of COVID-19 that required medical treatment. This bill was incorporated into SB 1375.
Commending Wolf Trap Foundation for the PerformingArts.
Alcoholic beverage control; license applications; notice requirements. Directs the Board of Directors (the Board) of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to make available on its website a list of all license applications that have been filed with the Board. The bill requires that such list include information regarding the type of license applied for, the proposed location of the licensed premises, a statement that objections to the license must be submitted within 30 days, and any other information deemed necessary by the Board. The bill also requires the license applicant to publish notice of the application at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation that is widely circulated in the county, city, or town wherein such applicant proposes to engage in such business.
Commending Barry M. Barnard.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable AugustusBenton Chafin, Jr.
Arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting overdoses. Provides that an individual who is subject to arrest or prosecution for the unlawful purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol; possession of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana; intoxication in public; or possession of controlled paraphernalia may be offered a first offender deferred disposition program or drug treatment court docket program if such person is reporting an overdose and seeking emergency medical attention. Under current law, such person would be immune from arrest and prosecution.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable AugustusBenton Chafin, Jr.