Individual income tax subtraction; long-term capital gains from sale of principal residence. Provides an individual income tax subtraction in taxable years 2025 through 2029 for income that is (i) taxed as a long-term capital gain for federal income tax purposes, (ii) attributable to the sale of property that served as the taxpayer's principal residence for at least two of the five years preceding such sale, and (iii) in excess of federal limitations only allowing an exclusion from gross income for up to $250,000, or $500,000, for joint filers, of gain from such a sale.
Professions and occupations; precious metals dealers; permit requirements. Eliminates the requirement that an applicant for a precious metals dealer permit submit fingerprints to the chief law-enforcement officer of the appropriate jurisdiction as part of the application process. The bill instead requires the chief law-enforcement officer to issue a permit to an applicant after confirming via a fingerprint-based or computerized criminal background check that such applicant has not been convicted of a felony or crime of moral turpitude within seven years prior to the date of application.
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Expands the list of offenses that prohibit a person from petitioning the Parole Board for conditional release as a geriatric prisoner.
Charter; Town of Waverly; emergency. Amends the charter for the Town of Waverly in Sussex County by transitioning the town from a strong mayor form of government to a council-manager form of government. Additional changes to the charter in the bill include (i) shifting town council elections from May to November, (ii) appointing a town manager, (iii) shifting certain duties from an elected mayor to a town manager, and (iv) repealing numerous outdated provisions. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Removal of clutter; cutting of grass; agricultural use exemption; Planning District 19. Exempts localities located in Planning District 19 from provisions that exclude agricultural land from requirements relating to the removal of clutter and cutting of grass when such land is one acre or less and located in an area that is used for a residential purpose.
Anti-harassment orders. Creates a procedure for issuing an anti-harassment order, defined in the bill. The bill also provides that (i) an anti-harassment order does not constitute a restraining order to disqualify a person from obtaining a concealed handgun permit and (ii) a violation of an anti-harassment order is punishable as contempt of court.
Electric utilities; small portable solar generation devices; local regulation; Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Permits any electric utility customer to own and operate a small portable solar generation device, defined in the bill as a nationally certified, plug-in solar photovoltaic device with a maximum power output of no more than 1,200 watts that is not designed to be interconnected with the electric grid and is intended primarily to offset part of the customer's electricity consumption, provided that such customer has submitted notice to its incumbent investor-owned utility, municipal utility, or electric cooperative. The bill prohibits an investor-owned utility, municipal utility, or electric cooperative from imposing interconnection requirements, charging any fee related to the device, or requiring that the customer obtain the utility's approval before installing or using the device. Under the bill, no electric utility or electric cooperative shall be liable for damage or injury caused by a small portable solar generation device. The bill also restricts (i) localities from prohibiting the use of a small portable solar generation device on a residential structure, provided that certain requirements are met, and (ii) landlords owning more than four rental dwelling units from prohibiting a tenant from installing a small portable solar generation device on the exterior of the tenant's premises, provided that reasonable restrictions may be established concerning size, manner, and placement.
State Corporation Commission; cost allocation proceedings for certain electric utilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct proceedings to review cost allocation among different customer classifications for certain electric utilities. For Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power, the Commission is directed to determine if the cost allocation of transmission costs require customers that are not data centers to unreasonably subsidize the transmission costs attributable to serving customers that are data centers by January 1, 2027. For Dominion Energy, the Commission is directed to determine if the current allocation of generation and distribution costs require customers that are not data centers to unreasonably subsidize the generation and distribution costs attributable to serving customers that are data centers by January 1, 2028.
Labor and employment; nondiscrimination; prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; predictive scheduling for large employers; causes of action; civil penalties. Prohibits an employer, labor organization, employment agency, or joint apprenticeship committee controlling an apprenticeship or other training program to discriminate based on an individual's name or address, if the individual's name or address are used as a proxy for race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, military status, disability, or ethnic or national origin. Additionally, the bill prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in determining the wages or salary the prospective employee is to be paid upon hire; (iii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in considering the prospective employee for employment; (iv) refusing to interview, hire, employ, or promote a prospective employee or otherwise retaliating against a prospective employee for not providing wage or salary history; and (v) failing or refusing to disclose in each public and internal posting for each job, promotion, transfer, or other employment opportunity the wage, salary, or wage or salary range. The bill establishes a cause of action for an aggrieved prospective employee or employee and provides that an employer that violates such prohibitions is liable to the aggrieved prospective employee or employee for statutory damages between $1,000 and $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater, reasonable attorney fees and costs, and any other legal and equitable relief as may be appropriate.The bill also requires an employer that is a retail establishment, hospitality establishment, or a food services establishment, including a chain or integrated enterprise, employing 500 or more employees worldwide to provide a written good faith estimate of each new employee's work schedule at the time of hire, to provide 14 days' advanced notice of an employee's work schedule, and to compensate employees for certain employer-requested changes that occur to an employee's work schedule without such advanced notice. The bill prohibits such an employer from scheduling or requiring an employee to work during certain required rest periods and from retaliating against an employee for inquiring about or seeking enforcement of the bill's provisions. The bill permits an employee who is unlawfully discharged, disciplined, threatened, discriminated against, or penalized in violation of its provisions to bring a civil action for certain enumerated remedies. Additionally, the bill subjects an employer who violates any of its provisions to certain civil penalties.
Domestic and Sexual Assault Conviction Database. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish a Domestic and Sexual Assault Conviction Database that will include information about persons who were convicted of certain offenses against a family or household member, as defined in relevant law, or an intimate partner, defined in the bill. The bill specifies that the Database will be available to the public on the Department of State Police's website. The bill provides that any person whose information is on the Database may petition for removal of such information from the Database if certain requirements are met and that the State Police shall include such petition information on the Database website. Under the bill, the Superintendent of State Police is required to complete the Database by July 1, 2027.
Public school funding; composite index of local ability-to-pay; calculation; exclusion of certain exempt property. Provides that on and after July 1, 2026, the calculation for the composite index of local ability-to-pay for each school division, after determining and weighting the true value of real property, adjusted gross income, and taxable retail sales in such school division, shall exclude the value of any real property within the school division that is exempt from real property tax due to its ownership by either (i) a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability or (ii) a surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who died in the line of duty, before adjusting each school division's share to maintain an overall statewide local share of 45 percent and an overall state share of 55 percent.
Certificate of public need; exception for independent outpatient or ambulatory surgery facilities. Creates an exception from the requirement to obtain a certificate of public need for facilities for outpatient or ambulatory surgery with up to three operating rooms that are not affiliated with a hospital. The bill requires hospitals to obtain a certificate of public need before acquiring an excepted facility.
