Sen. Tommy Norment

School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan. This bill incorporates SB 2, SB 287, and SB 613 and is identical to HB 4.

Consumer Data Protection Act; data deletion request. Provides that a controller that has obtained personal data about a consumer from a third party shall be deemed in compliance with a consumer's request to delete such data if the controller either (i) retains a record of the deletion request and the minimum data necessary for the purpose of ensuring that the consumer's personal data remains deleted and does not use such retained data for any other purpose or (ii) opts the consumer out of the processing of that data for any purpose except those purposes exempted pursuant to the Consumer Data Protection Act. This bill is identical to HB 381.

Board of Education; driver education programs; parent/student driver education. Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and shall be encouraged but shall not be required outside of Planning District 8. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 and optional outside of Planning District 8. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving. 

Sales tax; Historic Triangle regional tax; dedicationof funds. Requires the City of Williamsburg, James City County,and York County to appropriate annual amounts to entities promotingtourism and recreation in the Historic Triangle. Under current law,such localities receive state funds from the imposition of an extraone percent sales tax in the Historic Triangle. Thebill establishes the Williamsburg Tourism Council (the Council) asan advisory board in the legislative branch of state government, removesthe Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Tourism Alliance fromthe membership of the Council, and replaces him with the Chair ofthe Greater Williamsburg Chamber of Commerce.

Public health emergencies; immunity for health care providers; emergency. Expands immunity provided to health care providers responding to a disaster to include actions or omissions taken by the provider as directed by any order of public health in response to such disaster when a local emergency, state of emergency, or public health emergency has been declared. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Real property tax; reassessment cycles. Authorizes counties to conduct a general reassessment of real estate every three years if determined by majority vote of a county's board of supervisors. Current law requires counties to conduct a general reassessment every four years, with exceptions authorized for specified counties. This bill is identical to HB 951.