School boards; school resource officers; employment;threat assessment. Requires each school board to enter into acollaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency toemploy at least one school resource officer in each public elementaryand secondary school in the local school division. The bill providesthat no school board shall be granted any full or partial waiverfrom such staffing requirements and that no school board that failsto fully comply with such staffing requirements is eligible for anygrant or waiver from the Commonwealth, Board of Education, or Departmentof Education. The bill also requires each division superintendentto include on the threat assessment team established for each publicelementary and secondary school in the local school division at leastone school resource officer employed in the school.
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Celebrating the life of the Honorable FrankDuVal Hargrove, Sr.
Public elementary and secondary schools; curriculaand instruction including inherently divisive concepts prohibited.Requires each public elementary or secondary school principalto ensure that no curriculum utilized or instruction delivered inthe school includes inherently divisive concepts, as that term isdefined in the bill, regardless of whether such curriculum or instructionis provided by a school board employee or any other individual orentity.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable HarryRussell Potts, Jr.
Charitable gaming; enforcement and penalties.Strengthens the penalties that may be imposed for violationsof charitable gaming law, allows for an action for pretrial levyor seizure or an attachment for a defendant who violates any provisionof charitable gaming law, and requires the Department of State Policeto assist the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Servicesin the conduct of investigations of charitable gaming violations.
Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; Rebuild Virginia grants and Paycheck Protection Program loans; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2020, to December 31, 2021. The bill also deconforms from provisions of the (i) federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) related to the net operating loss limitation and carryback, a loss limitation applicable to taxpayers other than corporations, the limitation on business interest, and certain loan forgiveness and other business financial assistance and (ii) federal American Rescue Plan Act related to restaurant revitalization grants and emergency injury disaster loans received for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2021. The bill also increases from $100,000 to $1 million the maximum individual and corporate income tax deduction or subtraction, as applicable, for Rebuild Virginia grants and certain amounts related to Paycheck Protection Program loans for taxable year 2020. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Real property taxes; rate of increase. Requires the governing body of a locality to hold a referendum before makingmost increases in their real property tax rate. Under current law,the governing body of a locality is required to limit their realproperty tax rate to a rate that would collect no more than 101 percentof the amount of real property taxes collected for the previous year.Increases above this rate may only be imposed if the locality holdsa public meeting. The bill replaces the public meeting requirementwith a requirement that any such increase be approved in a referendum.
Commending Trooper Jonathan R. Davis.
Commending Clyde E. Cristman.
Commending Tiffany McKillip Franks.