Electric utilities; shared solar programs. Expandsthe current shared solar program to include participation by PhaseI Utilities. The bill introduces incentives for shared solar programsthat are located on rooftops, brownfields, or landfills, are dual-useagricultural facilities, or meet any other category of incentivethat the Department of Energy may establish. The bill authorizesthe State Corporation Commission to establish a program cap on theamount of capacity for Phase I Utilities' shared solar programs. Provisions of the bill shall be implemented by the State Corporation Commissionby December 31, 2022. The bill permits both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customers to participate in a shared solar program and creates astakeholder group to address interconnection issues and propose changesvia petition to the Commission by January 1, 2023. The bill alsoallows utilities to recover the costs of incentives established bythe bill.
Board of Education; policy on certain instructionalmaterial and related academic activities; annual parental notification;replacement or alternative material and activities; local compliance.Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local schoolboard to comply with, a policy to require each public elementaryor secondary school to (i) annually notify the parent of any student enrolled in a class or course in which the instructional materialor related academic activities includes or may include sexually explicitcontent, as defined in the bill, or content that depicts sexual misconduct,as defined in the bill; (ii) permit the parent of any student toreview instructional material that includes sexually explicit contentor content that depicts sexual misconduct, upon request; and (iii)provide, as a replacement or an alternative to instructional materialand related academic activities that include sexually explicit contentor content that depicts sexual misconduct, instructional materialand related academic activities that do not include sexually explicit content or content that depicts sexual misconduct to any studentwhose parent so requests.
Virginia Residential Property Disclosures Act;Real Estate Board; residential property disclosure statement form.Requires the residential property disclosure statement form developedby the Real Estate Board and maintained on its website to includea statement signed by the parties acknowledging that the purchaser has been advised of the disclosures listed in residential propertydisclosure statement. Under current law, the form that contains thestatement to be signed by the parties is not required to be includedwith the residential property disclosure statement form.
Traffic control device violation monitoringsystems. Authorizes the localities in Planning District23 to establish a traffic control device violation monitoring systemimposing monetary liability on the operator of a motor vehicle forfailure to comply with traffic control devices at any intersectiondeemed by the local governing body to be negatively impacted by trafficdue to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project. The billsunsets on July 1, 2026, or upon certification by the Secretary ofTransportation that the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Projectis complete, whichever is earlier. The bill contains technical amendments.
Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services;training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians;information required. Directs the Department for Aging and RehabilitativeServices to develop and provide training for court-appointed guardians.The bill requires an appointed guardian and any staff employed bysuch guardian to perform guardianship duties to complete the initialtraining developed by the Department within four months of the dateof the initial court order of appointment and to include certainadditional information in the annual report that the guardian is requiredunder current law to submit to the local department of social services.
Consumer Data Protection Act; nonprofit organizations. Provides, for the purposes of the Consumer Data Protection Act, thatthe definition for "nonprofit organization" includes certain nonprofitorganizations exempt from taxation under § 501 (c)(4) of the InternalRevenue Code.
Charitable gaming; exemptions from certain requirementsfor specified organizations. Exempts qualified organizationsthat reasonably expect, on the basis of prior charitable gaming annual results or any other quantifiable method, to realize grossreceipts of $15,000 or less from all charitable gaming other than raffles, conducted on a total of no more than seven days per calendaryear, from the requirements to (i) notify the Department of Agricultureand Consumer Services (the Department) of their intention to conductsuch charitable gaming or (ii) comply with the regulations of theCharitable Gaming Board. Under current law, only qualified organizationsthat reasonably expect to realize gross receipts of $40,000 or lessfrom raffles in any 12-month period are exempt from these requirements.The bill provides that any qualified organization may sell instantbingo, pull tabs, or seal cards that are dispensed by mechanicalequipment only, provided that the sale is limited to two events ofno more than 14 days each per calendar year. Under current law, onlyathletic associations or booster clubs or band booster clubs maysell instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards at a single event ina calendar year. Finally, the bill prohibits the Department fromrequiring a qualified organization that realizes annual gross receiptsof $15,000 or less to file a report of its receipts and disbursements.
Property insurance; invoices. Requires anyinvoice sent pursuant to an insurance contract on property or onany interest therein or arising therefrom to list the address ofthe insured property or property interest.
Electric cooperatives; board of directors; accessto meetings; required disclosures. Requires that each Virginiaelectric cooperative hold direct elections for its board of directors,either in person or by mail, or by electronic communication meansif authorized by its articles of incorporation, and prohibits proxyvoting. The bill requires that meetings of the board of directorsbe open to members of the cooperative, viewable both in person andthrough online streaming, and that recordings of the meetings beposted on an official website for viewing by members of the cooperative,with certain exceptions for confidential matters. Thebill also requires the board of directors of an electric cooperativeto make certain disclosures to its members annually. These disclosuresmust include the cooperative's position on legislative and regulatoryissues, the amount of money spent on lobbying by the cooperative,and the names of lobbying organizations that the cooperative supportsand be posted online or distributed through a member publication.
Assisted living facilities; involuntary dischargeof a resident. Provides that an assisted living facility shallnot involuntary discharge a patient except (i) in cases in whichthe resident's condition presents an immediate and serious risk tothe health, safety, or welfare of the resident or others and emergencydischarge is necessary to protect the health, safety, or welfareof the resident or others; (ii) for nonpayment of contracted charges;or (iii) for failure of the resident to substantially comply withthe terms and conditions of the lease agreement between the residentand the assisted living facility. The bill requires an assisted livingfacility to take steps to prevent the involuntary discharge, requiresan assisted living facility to provide at least 30 days' notice ofthe involuntary discharge, and requires the assisted living facilityto provide a discharge plan for the resident prior to involuntary discharge. The bill also requires the Department of Social Servicesto establish a process by which a resident or the resident's representativemay appeal the decision of the assisted living facility to involuntarilydischarge a resident to the Department and requires the Departmentto conduct a review to determine whether the assisted living facilityhas complied with the requirements of the bill.
Virginia Public Procurement Act; authority for localities to use cooperative procurement. Allows a public body to participate in cooperative procurement for construction contracts purchased by localities if the contract is valued at no greater than $200,000.
Required immunizations; regulations. Providesthat a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of eachchild in the Commonwealth shall cause such child to be vaccinatedin accordance with the Regulations for the Immunization of SchoolChildren of the State Board of Health (the Board) and that regulationsof the Board setting forth such requirements shall be subject tothe Administrative Process Act. Currently, a parent, guardian, orperson standing in loco parentis of a child shall cause such childto be vaccinated in accordance with the Immunizations Schedule developedand published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, American Academy ofPediatrics, and American Academy of Family Physicians, and any regulationsof the Board setting forth requirements related to vaccines are exemptfrom the Administrative Process Act. Thebill also provides that no regulation of the Board of Health settingforth requirements related to vaccines shall become effective untilafter the next regular session of the General Assembly following thedate on which the final adopted regulation is published in the VirginiaRegister of Regulations.
