Commending Malcolm Rupert Cutler.
Chiropractic Health Month. Designates October,in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Chiropractic Health Monthin Virginia.
Disability insurance; disability arising out of childbirth. Requires each insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing short-term disability income protection coverage whose policies provide coverage for short-term disability arising out of childbirth to, notwithstanding a disability determination or medical necessity requirement, provide for 12 weeks of income protection coverage for a payable benefit of at least 12 weeks immediately following childbirth.
Commending Capital Caring.
Commending Deborah Tyson.
Malnutrition Awareness Week. Designatesthe first week in October, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, asMalnutrition Awareness Week in Virginia.
Department of Education; Statewide LearningManagement System established. Directs the Department of Educationto establish the Statewide Learning Management System (VaLMS). TheVaLMS shall be available to each public school in the Commonwealth.The bill allows school boards to utilize the VaLMS as an alternative to a multidivision online provider in the provision of virtual schoolprograms.
Voter registration; restoration of political rights upon release from incarceration; certain adjudications. Provides that any person who is convicted of a felony and sentenced to a period of incarceration for such felony conviction is not entitled to register to vote or to vote for the duration of the period of incarceration, but that he is to be invested with all political rights lost as a result of the felony conviction upon release from incarceration and is thereafter entitled to register to vote. The bill requires the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to transmit to the Department of Elections certain information related to an incarcerated person with a scheduled date of release. The bill also requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to provide to any person being released from incarceration, on the date of his release, (i) an application to register to vote with instructions for returning the application by mail; (ii) information regarding how to register to vote by electronic means or in person, in the form prescribed by the State Board of Elections for this purpose; and (iii) an official release document for voter registration purposes. Enactment of the provisions of this bill are contingent upon the passage of an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2022 providing for the qualifications of voters and the right to vote by amending Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia related to persons convicted of a felony and persons adjudicated as lacking the capacity to understand the act of voting.
Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund; established.Establishes the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund to provide grants tolocalities to develop wildlife corridor plans and implement the provisionsof such plans.
Commending the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Celebrating the life of Wendell Oliver Scott,Jr.
Commending Dianna C. Bowser.
