Dulles Greenway. Amends the powers and responsibilitiesof the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to regulate toll road operators underthe Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988. The bill adds requirements thattoll rates not materially discourage the public's use of the toll road, thatthe cost of operating the toll road be reasonably apportioned across all tollroad users based on the relative distance each class of user travels on thetoll road, such that the toll rates are established in a reasonable andnondiscriminatory manner in relation to the benefit obtained, and that tollrates shall provide the operator with no more than a reasonable return. Inaddition, the bill (i) requires the SCC, by October 1, 2020, to initiate aninvestigation into the tolls charged by all operators subject to the Act and toissue a ruling by April 1, 2021, on its investigation as to whether the currenttolls charged by the operator comply with such new requirements; (ii) prohibitsthe SCC from using the fact that any incremental return resulting fromincreased traffic related to a relative change in potential toll users that isgreater than zero on a cumulative basis as the sole basis for finding that theoperator's return exceeds a reasonable level as specified in such newrequirements, during any future complaint proceeding; (iii) requires the SCC,in its initial investigation, to develop a baseline from which it can measurethe relative change in potential toll users and directs how the incrementalreturn shall be computed; (iv) prohibits an operator from seeking a tollincrease that attempts to raise its return above the reasonable level; (v)requires the full disclosure, in public financial reports to the SCC, of thedetails of any related party transactions; and (vi) establishes a presumptionthat any related party transactions shall be presumed to be imprudent andexcluded from costs used for any purpose, including but not limited to costs oflobbyists, excessive compensation, and entertainment expenses, unless theoperator provides information showing that at least three separate competitivebids demonstrate that the operator could not have achieved better contractterms from a third party.
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Commending the Loudoun South Little Leaguebaseball team.
Admission to bail; presumption of release on recognizance. Provides that a judicial officer shall release any person taken into custody by an arresting officer for any misdemeanor violation committed in such arresting officer's presence, except for violations of driving or operating a motor vehicle, watercraft, or motorboat while intoxicated, offenses that give rise to a rebuttable presumption against bail, or as otherwise provided in Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles).
Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Office of the Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board to study, review, and regulate the cost of prescription drugs in the Commonwealth, in consultation with a stakeholder work group appointed by the Board. The bill also establishes the Office of the Prescription Drug Affordability Board to provide staffing and administrative support to the Board.
Prescription drug price transparency. Requiresevery health carrier, pharmacy benefits manager, wholesale drug distributer, and drug manufacturer to report information about prescription drugprices and related information to the Department of Health and requiresthe Department to make such information available on its website.
Memorializing Congress; Glass-Steagall Act;infrastructure bank. Urges the Congress of the United Statesto reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act and develop an infrastructurebank.
DCJS; costs and benefits of implementing a deflection to treatment program; report. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing a deflection to treatment program for individuals with substance use disorder or mental illness generally, and the Five Deflection Pathways in accordance with the Police, Treatment and Community Collaborative specifically, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2020.
Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatoryhousing practices; sexual orientation and gender identity. Addsdiscrimination on the basis of an individual's sexual orientationor gender identity as an unlawful housing practice. The bill defines"sexual orientation" and "gender identity." This bill was incorporatedinto HB 1663.
Safe destruction of records containing personalidentifying information. Requires a commercial entity that isin possession of, or has within its custody or control, records that(i) contain consumers' unencrypted, unredacted personal identifyinginformation and (ii) are no longer needed by the commercial entityto take reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destructionof, the records by shredding, erasing, or otherwise destroying or modifying the personal identifying information in the records tomake it unreadable or indecipherable. The measure does not applyto certain financial institutions, health insurance or health carefacilities, consumer reporting agencies, or governmental entities.The measure authorizes a consumer who incurs actual damages due toa reckless or intentional violation of these requirements by a commercialentity to bring a civil action.
Constitution of the United States; Equal RightsAmendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitutionof the United States that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The jointresolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendmentremains viable and may be ratified notwithstanding the expirationof the 10-year ratification period set out in the resolving clause,as amended, in the proposal adopted by Congress.