Sen. Bryce Reeves

Celebrating the life of Russell Lee Scott.

Milk; definition; misbranding; prohibition.Defines milk as the lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammaland provides that a food product is unlawfully misbranded if its label states that it is milk and it fails to meet such definition, exceptfor human breast milk. The bill directs the Board of Agricultureand Consumer Services to implement a plan to ban all products misbrandedas milk.

Pari-mutuel wagering; breakage; distribution for problem gambling treatment and support; creation of Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund. Alters the required distribution of the legitimate breakage from each pari-mutuel pool for live, historical, and simulcast horse racing by requiring that 80 percent be deposited in the Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund, created by the bill, and 20 percent be deposited in the Racing Benevolence Fund for gambling addiction and substance abuse counseling or recreational, educational, nutritional, or other related programs. Under current law, 70 percent of the breakage is required to be distributed to the horse racing licensee to be used for capital improvements and 30 percent of the breakage is required to be distributed to the Racing Benevolence Fund for gambling addiction and substance abuse counseling or recreational, educational, or other related programs. The Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund, administered by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, would be used to provide counseling to compulsive gamblers, implement problem gambling treatment and prevention programs, and provide grants to organizations that assist problem gamblers.

Constitutional amendment (second resolution);personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteranwho is disabled. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteranwho has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disabilityshall be exempt from state and local taxes. The amendment provides that only automobiles and pickup trucks qualify for the exemption. Additionally, the exemption is only applicable on the date the motorvehicle is acquired or the effective date of the amendment, whicheveris later, and is not applicable for any period of time prior to theeffective date of the amendment.

Veterans and active duty members of the ArmedForces; teachers; credit for service. Requires each local schoolboard to give any veteran or active duty member of any of the ArmedForces of the United States or the Commonwealth who it employs asa teacher in the local school division credit for any time servedin any such forces in determining such teacher's step on the localschool division's teacher salary scale.

Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject a personal property tax exemption for a motor vehicle that is owned and used primarily by or for a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States or the Virginia National Guard who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Mary T.Christian.

Study; JLARC; feasibility of adjusting the compositeindex of local ability to pay; report. Requires the Joint LegislativeAudit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of adjustingthe composite index of local ability to pay by (i) reviewing currentstatutory, constitutional, and budgetary provisions governing thecalculation of Standards of Quality costs and funding; (ii) examiningthe components of the composite index of local ability to pay; (iii)evaluating other states' public school funding formulas; (iv) hearinglocal concerns and seeking input from various state and national experts, as applicable; and (v) determining the feasibility of reducingthe local share under the Local Composite Index (LCI) in schooldivisions in which the locality is determined to have above-averagefiscal stress or high fiscal stress by the Virginia Commission onLocal Government in its most recent "Report on the Comparative RevenueCapacity, Revenue Effort, and Fiscal Stress of Virginia Countiesand Cities."

Celebrating the life of the Reverend SydneyStrother Smith III.

Commending Albemarle County.