Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. DesignatesSeptember, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Ovarian CancerAwareness Month in Virginia.
Celebrating the life of William Griffith Thomas.
Commending John F. Reinhart.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable Eva MaeFleming Scott.
Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices.Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coveragesubscription contracts, health maintenance organizations, and the Commonwealth's Medicaid program to provide coverage for prostheticdevices, including myoelectric, biomechanical, or microprocessor-controlledprosthetic devices that have a Medicare code. The measure repealsthe existing requirement that coverage for prosthetic devices beoffered and made available. The measure has a delayed effective dateof January 1, 2021.
Charitable gaming; special permit for the playof electronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cardson certain premises. Creates a special permit that shall be grantedto a qualified organization that has already received a general permitfor the conduct of charitable gaming from the Department of Agricultureand Consumer Services to allow such organization to place Department-approvedelectronic versions of instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards onthe licensed premises of an entity licensed to sell alcoholic beveragesfor on-premises consumption with the consent of such licensee. Thebill also exempts qualified organizations that are granted such specialpermit from certain requirements relating to (i) limits on the numberof organizations for which a person may manage, operate, or conductcharitable games; (ii) prohibitions on providing compensation or any other remuneration to persons for organizing, managing, or conducting charitable games; or (iii) the use of proceeds derived from the conductof charitable games, as those requirements relate to the management,operation, or conduct of charitable games pursuant to such specialpermit.
Electric utilities; retail competition. Shortens fromfive years to three years the period that a customer who switches from aninvestor-owned electric utility to a licensed competing supplier is barred fromreturning as a customer of the utility. The measure provides that if a singleperson purchases electric energy from a licensed supplier and such electricenergy is composed of a percentage of renewable energy equal to or greater thanthe percentage of renewable energy that the licensed supplier is required toprovide pursuant to any renewable energy portfolio standard, such person willconstitute a single retail customer, notwithstanding that service is providedto noncontiguous sites. Under current law, for the purposes of purchasingenergy from a licensed competing supplier, noncontiguous sites are consideredindividual retail customers and cannot be aggregated to meet the energy demandthreshold regardless of common ownership or control. The measure provides thatfor cooperative customers the lockout period remains five years andnoncontiguous sites are still considered individual retail customers. Themeasure also allows individual retail customers of an electric utility topurchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from anylicensed supplier. The measure eliminates the condition that permits suchpurchases only if the electric utility serving the applicable exclusive serviceterritory does not offer a tariff for 100 percent renewable energy. Finally,the measure directs the State Corporation Commission to update its consumerprotection regulations relating to the availability of service through licensedsuppliers.
Commending Mission BBQ.
Public schools; Standards of Learning assessments.Reduces the total number and type of required Standards of Learningassessments to the minimum requirements established by the federalElementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.
