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2022 SESSION
Chair: L. Louise Lucas
Date of Meeting: March 3, 2022
Time and Place: 8 AM Senate Committee Room A / Pocahontas Building
Update: HB156 & HB89 removed
Patron: Fowler
Appointed school board members; salaries. Permits any appointed school board to pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salary procedures and no more than the salary limits provided for local governments in relevant law or as provided by charter, with certain exceptions and conditions. Current law sets a specific maximum dollar amount for the salary of members of each such appointed school board.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-32 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointed school board members; salaries.22100965D
Patron: Davis
Healthcare Regulatory Sandbox Program; established. Requires the Department of Health to establish the Healthcare Regulatory Sandbox Program to enable a person to obtain limited access to the market in the Commonwealth to temporarily test an innovative healthcare product or service on a limited basis without otherwise being licensed or authorized to act under the laws of the Commonwealth. Under the Program, an applicant requests the waiver of certain laws, regulations, or other requirements for a 24-month testing period, with an option to request an additional six-month testing period. The bill provides application requirements, consumer protections, procedures for exiting the Program or requesting an extension, and recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The bill requires the Department to provide an annual report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health that provides information regarding each Program participant and that provides recommendations regarding the effectiveness of the Program. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 32.1 a chapter numbered 21, consisting of sections numbered 32.1-376 through 32.1-383, relating to the Health Care Regulatory Sandbox Program.22106142D
Patron: Davis
Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and permitted. Prohibits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof from (i) discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin; (ii) engaging in proxy discrimination, as defined in the bill, in student admissions; or (iii) seeking information on students' race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin during the application process for admission to such school unless expressly required by federal law, and to the extent it is required by federal law, the bill requires such information to be withheld to the maximum extent practicable from any individual involved in admissions decisions to the end that admissions decisions are blind as to the applicants' race, sex, color, ethnicity, and national origin. The bill permits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof to use traditional academic success factors, as defined in the bill, in student admissions and provides that such use presumptively does not constitute proxy discrimination. The bill also contains provisions relating to evidentiary burdens of proof in certain causes of action involving such proxy discrimination or traditional academic success factors. The bill requires each local school board that jointly manages and controls a regional academic year Governor's school to collaborate to ensure that each public middle school that is eligible to send students to attend such Governor's school offers coursework, curriculum, and instruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order to provide each student in each such middle school with the opportunity to gain admission to and excel academically at such Governor's school.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-26.2, relating to academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited, permitted, and required.22103749D
Patron: Davis
Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program established. Establishes the Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of annually providing to each Historically Black College or University in the Commonwealth (defined in the bill as Norfolk State University and Virginia State University) such sums as are necessary for each such institution to annually provide renewable last-dollar scholarships on a competitive basis to two students who (i) attended a a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth in which at least 75 percent of the enrolled students qualify for free or reduced price lunch or are members of families whose income is below the federal poverty guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; (ii) are accepted to or enrolled in such institution's education preparation program; and (iii) are eligible for a federal Pell Grant to attend such institution. The bill provides that each such scholarship would consist of the following sums: (a) the cost of tuition, mandatory fees, room and board, and textbooks at such institution; (b) the recipient's teacher licensure fees; (c) $5,000 toward teacher professional development activities for the recipient, including coursework, seminars, and conferences; and (d) $10,000 toward mentorship of the recipient by a master teacher, defined as an experienced public elementary or secondary school teacher who is deemed by the relevant school board to be highly effective and able to provide high quality mentorship. The bill requires each student who is awarded a scholarship pursuant to the Program to agree in writing to (1) teach in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth in which at least 75 percent of the enrolled students qualify for free or reduced price lunch or are members of families whose income is below the federal poverty guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upon graduation for a period that is at least as long as the period during which the recipient used scholarship funds to attend a Historically Black College or University and (2) be mentored by a master teacher during such period of employment.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of Chapter 6 of Title 23.1 a section numbered 23.1-616.1, relating to the establishment of the Virginia Diverse Educator Scholarship Fund and Program.22105480D
Patron: Webert
Public elementary and middle schools; student growth assessments; NWEA MAP Growth assessment program. Requires the Board of Education, in implementing the through-year growth assessment system for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight, to seek input and suggestions from each interested local school division in the Commonwealth regarding ways in which such system can emulate the functionality of the NWEA MAP Growth assessment program, including ease of administration and use, and shall, to the extent possible, incorporate such input and suggestions into the through-year growth assessment system.
A BILL to require the Board of Education to seek and incorporate into the through-year growth assessment system certain local input and suggestions.22105622D
Patron: Brewer
Department of Military Affairs; institutions of higher education; recruitment. Authorizes the Department of Military Affairs to utilize grant funding for which active members of the Virginia National Guard who attend any public institution of higher education or accredited nonprofit private institution of higher education and meet other certain requirements are eligible under current law in order to recruit qualified applicants for service in the Virginia National Guard. The bill states that the yearly funding amount for such recruitment shall be at the discretion of the Adjutant General and the Department of Military Affairs and not exceed $50,000 per fiscal year.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-610 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Department of Military Affairs; institutions of higher education; recruitment.22102438D
Patron: Greenhalgh
Provision of abortion; right to informed consent. Requires physicians and authorized nurse practitioners to follow certain procedures and processes to effect a pregnant woman's informed written consent prior to the performance of an abortion.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 16.1-77 and 18.2-76 of the Code of Virginia, relating to provision of abortion; right to informed consent.22106074D
Patron: Orrock
Board of Education; authority to temporarily extend certain teachers' licenses. Permits the Board of Education to grant a two-year extension of the license of any individual licensed by the Board of Education pursuant to its statutory authority whose license expires on June 30, 2022, in order to provide the individual with sufficient additional time to complete the requirements for licensure or license renewal.
A BILL to permit the Board of Education to temporarily extend certain teachers' licenses.22100993D
Patron: Adams, D.M.
State plan for medical assistance services; durable medical equipment; complex rehabilitative technology. Requires the State Board of Medical Assistance Services to include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision for the payment of medical assistance of up to $7,500 for the initial purchase of durable medical equipment consisting of manual and power wheelchair bases and related accessories for patients who reside in nursing facilities and up to $7,500 for the replacement of durable medical equipment consisting of manual and power wheelchair bases and related accessories for patients who reside in nursing facilities when such replacement is (i) determined to be medically necessary or (ii) in accordance with regulations establishing service limits and replacement schedules for such durable medical equipment. The bill also provides that recipients of medical assistance shall not be required to pay any deductible, coinsurance, or copayment for medical assistance pursuant to this subdivision.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia, relating to state plan for medical assistance services; durable medical equipment.22106143D
Patron: Davis
Health care data report; carriers. Directs the Department of Health, through its contract with the nonprofit organization described in § 32.1-276.4 of the Code of Virginia and in consultation with the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission (the Bureau), to (i) develop and implement a methodology to review and measure the efficiency and productivity of carriers other than limited scope dental or vision plans and managed care health insurance plans, and (ii) make available to the public on a website maintained by the nonprofit organization such data and information and other reports collected or produced as a result of implementation of such methodology by July 1, 2023. The bill also requires the Bureau to convene a stakeholder work group to (i) provide input on the development of the methodology required by the act; (ii) identify additional measures to increase the transparency of information provided to the Bureau by carriers, managed care health insurance plans, and health care providers; and (iii) determine what additional information should be provided to the nonprofit organization by carriers, managed care health insurance plan providers, and health care providers to increase competition among both carriers and health care providers and assist consumers in making educated decisions regarding options for health care coverage and access. The bill requires the workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2022.
A BILL to require the Department of Health, through its contract with the nonprofit organization with which it enters agreements for certain data services, to develop and implement a methodology for evaluating the efficiency and productivity of carriers and managed care health insurance plans.22105737D
Patron: Byron
Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive communities colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-253.13:1 and 23.1-907 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; workforce credentials.22105352D
Patron: Freitas
Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requirements during an epidemic. Currently, exemption from mandatory immunization requirements during an epidemic is available only to those persons to whose health the administration of the vaccine would be detrimental, as certified in writing by a licensed physician.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-48 of the Code of Virginia, relating to immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception.22102554D
Patron: Davis
Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathways to the advanced studies diploma. Directs the Board of Education to establish two pathways to the advanced studies high school diploma, and associated diploma seals for students who successfully follow and demonstrate excellence on such pathways: one pathway that requires advanced coursework in a career and technical education field but does not require coursework in world language and another pathway that requires advanced coursework in world language but does not require coursework in a career and technical education field.
A BILL to require the Board of Education to establish multiple pathways to the advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seals.22105271D
Patron: Davis
College partnership laboratory schools; application and establishment. Permits any public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education to apply to the Board of Education (the Board) to establish a college partnership laboratory school as a new school or through the conversion of all or part of an existing school. Under current law, only public and private institutions of higher education that operate approved teacher education programs are permitted to apply to the Board to establish such a school and no explicit provision is made for the conversion of an existing school. The bill permits college partnership laboratory schools to enter into a memorandum of understanding with any individual or entity to provide apprenticeships, career training, and curriculum support to carry out the provisions of law relating to such schools. The bill requires the Board, in reviewing such applications, to give substantial preference to any application from a historically black college or university and any application to establish a college partnership laboratory school in an underserved community, which the bill defines as a geographical area that is served by public schools in which a high percentage of students are eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch, as determined by the Board.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-349.1, 22.1-349.5 and 22.1-349.6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to college partnership laboratory schools; application and establishment.22106161D
Patron: Freitas
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; website; posting of certain comparative data relating to undergraduate students. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to maintain on its website a comparison of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education to each other baccalaureate public institution of higher education on an enumerated list of undergraduate student metrics and requires each such institution to maintain a link on its website to such comparison.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-409 of the Code of Virginia, relating to baccalaureate public institution of higher education; website; posting of certain comparative data relating to undergraduate students.22106071D
Patron: Bulova
Early childhood care and education; regional entities; Child Care Subsidy Program Overpayment Fund established. Requires the Board of Education to establish a system of regional entities that will be responsible for coordinating early childhood care and education services, guiding quality improvement of such services and coordinated access to such services for families, and implementing the uniform measurement and improvement system. The bill establishes the Child Care Subsidy Program Overpayment Fund, consisting of all overpayment moneys collected or recovered by the Department of Education or any state or local agency contracted to administer the Child Care Subsidy Program, net of any refunds due to the federal government, to be used solely for the purpose of covering the cost of providing training and supports to early childhood care and education entities.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-289.05 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 14.1 of Title 22.1 a section numbered 22.1-289.08:1, relating to early childhood care and education; regional entities; Child Care Subsidy Program Overpayment Fund established.22104067D
Patron: Freitas
Higher education; students and student organizations; remedies for certain violations. Permits any student or student organization aggrieved by a violation of certain provisions of law relating to campus free speech by a public institution of higher education or any employee of such institution acting in his official capacity to (i) bring a cause of action against such institution or employee for appropriate relief, including injunctive relief, monetary damages, reasonable attorney fees, and court costs; (ii) assert such violation as a defense or counterclaim in any disciplinary action or civil or administrative proceeding brought against such student or student organization; and (iii) pursue any other remedy available to such student or student organization.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 23.1-401.3, relating to higher education; students and student organizations; remedies for certain violations.22103237D
Patron: Helmer
Hospitals; price transparency. Requires every hospital to make information about standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital available on the hospital's website.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-137.05 of the Code of Virginia, relating to hospitals; price transparency.22106360D
Patron: March
Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home instruction; (ii) has demonstrated evidence of progress for two consecutive academic years; (iii) is in compliance with immunization requirements; (iv) is a person of school age for whom public school is free; (v) has not reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the current academic year; (vi) is an amateur who receives no compensation but participates solely for the educational, physical, mental, and social benefits of the activity; (vii) complies with all disciplinary rules and is subject to all codes of conduct applicable to all public high school athletes; and (viii) complies with all other rules governing awards, all-star games, maximum consecutive semesters of high school enrollment, parental consents, physical examinations, and transfers applicable to all high school athletes. The bill provides that no local school board is required to establish a policy to permit students who receive home instruction to participate in interscholastic programs. The bill permits reasonable fees to be charged to students who receive home instruction to cover the costs of participation in such interscholastic programs, including fees to cover the costs of additional insurance, uniforms, and equipment and fees for facility upkeep and facility maintenance. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2027.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 22.1 a section numbered 22.1-7.3, relating to participation in public school interscholastic programs by students who receive home instruction.22101194D
Patron: Batten
Telemedicine; out of state providers; behavioral health services. Allows certain practitioners of professions regulated by the Boards of Medicine, Counseling, Psychology, and Social Work who provide behavioral health services and who are licensed in another state, the District of Columbia, or a United States territory or possession and in good standing with the applicable regulatory agency to engage in the practice of that profession in the Commonwealth with a patient located in the Commonwealth when (i) such practice is for the purpose of providing continuity of care through the use of telemedicine services and (ii) the practitioner has previously established a practitioner-patient relationship with the patient. The bill provides that a practitioner who provides behavioral health services to a patient located in the Commonwealth through use of telemedicine services may provide such services for a period of no more than one year from the date on which the practitioner began providing such services to such patient.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 54.1-2901, 54.1-3501, 54.1-3601, and 54.1-3701 of the Code of Virginia, relating to telemedicine; out of state providers; behavioral health services.22103670D
Patron: Roem
Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular school activities. Requires each school board to adopt policies that prohibit the school board or any school board employee from denying a student the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular school activity because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-79.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular school activities.22101050D
Patron: Roem
School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; processing of applications. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to process each web-based or paper-based application for participation in the School Breakfast Program or the National School Lunch Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture within six working days after the date of receipt of the completed application. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of August 1, 2023. The bill requires school divisions that cannot currently comply with the foregoing requirements to develop a plan for ensuring compliance by August 1, 2023.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-207.2:2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; processing of applications.22101066D
Patron: LaRock
Teaching or promotion of certain concepts in public elementary and secondary education; declaration as unlawful and discriminatory practice. Declares it an unlawful and discriminatory practice for any local school board or employee or contractor thereof to teach any public elementary or secondary school student to believe or promote to any such student as valid the belief that (i) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (ii) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; (iii) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual's race or sex; (iv) an individual's moral character is necessarily determined by the individual's race or sex; or (v) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex, but permits any local school board or employee or contractor thereof to teach to any public elementary or secondary school student content that includes the past or present belief, by any individual or group, in any such concept.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-207.7, relating to public schools; moral and character education; certain teaching declared unlawful and discriminatory.22106442D
Patron: LaRock
Family life education programs; student participation; summaries. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school student from participating in any family life education program without the prior written consent of his parent. The bill requires the summary that is required to be posted and distributed to parents for each such program to include contact information for the individual or office responsible for maintaining printed and audio-visual program materials.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-207.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to family life education programs; student participation; summaries.22100735D
Patron: Wilt
School counselors; staffing ratios; flexibility. Permits school boards to fulfill the staffing ratio requirements for school counselors by (i) employing, under a provisional license issued by the Department of Education for three school years with an allowance for an additional two-year extension with the approval of the division superintendent, any professional counselor licensed by the Board of Counseling, clinical social worker licensed by the Board of Social Work, psychologist licensed by the Board of Psychology, or other licensed counseling professional with appropriate experience and training, provided that any such individual makes progress toward completing the requirements for full licensure as a school counselor during such period of employment or (ii) in the event that the school board does not receive any application from a licensed school counselor, professional counselor, clinical social worker, or psychologist or another licensed counseling professional with appropriate experience and training to fill a school counselor vacancy in the school division, entering into an annual contract with another entity for the provision of school counseling services by a licensed professional counselor, clinical social worker, or psychologist or another licensed counseling professional with appropriate experience and training.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to school counselors; staffing ratios; flexibility.22106408D
Patron: Greenhalgh
School boards; employment of school resource officers or school security officers. Requires each school board to (i) enter into a collaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency to employ at least one school resource officer or (ii) employ at least one school security officer in each public elementary and secondary school in the local school division. The bill prohibits the Board of Education from granting any school board a waiver from such requirement but permits the Board of Education to grant a partial waiver to allow the sharing of a single school resource officer or school security officer by two different public schools that (a) are adjoining or are within close proximity to each other and (b) share facilities such as parking.
22106167D
Patron: Rasoul
Board of Education; membership; qualifications. Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Board of Education; membership; qualifications.22100654D
Patron: Robinson
Health care providers; health records of minors; available via secure website. Provides that every hospital and health care provider that makes patients' health records available to such patients through a secure website shall make all health records of a patient who is a minor available to such patient's parent through such secure website unless the hospital or health care provider cannot make such health record available in a manner that prevents disclosure of information, the disclosure of which has been denied by a health care provider or for which required consent has not been provided.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-127 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54.1-2404.1, relating to health care providers; health care records of minors; available via secure website.22105695D
Patron: Robinson
Board of Education; stakeholder group; evaluation of and recommendations for certain current and proposed policies and performance standards for public elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of Education to convene a group of stakeholders to include parents, public school principals, public school superintendents, public school board members, institutions of higher education, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, industry partners and employers, and other concerned stakeholders to evaluate, to implement where possible, and to otherwise make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding seven enumerated goals. The bill requires the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, no later than November 30, 2022, to report to the chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health the results of such evaluation and recommendations to achieve such goals.
A BILL to require the Board of Education, in conjunction with the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to convene a group of stakeholders to evaluate certain current and proposed policies and performance standards for public elementary and secondary schools and students and report recommendations for revising these policies and standards to promote excellence and higher student achievement.22104194D
Patron: Tran
Medicaid; program information; accessibility. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to require every person that provides program information to ensure that all program information, defined in the bill, be made available in a manner that is accessible to (i) individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, and (ii) individuals with disabilities through the provision of auxiliary aids services, when doing so is a reasonable step to providing meaningful access to health care coverage. The bill provides that language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be provided free of charge to such individuals and that information regarding how to receive the language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be included with program information documents on a website maintained by the Department of Medical Assistance Services and on the website of every agency of the Commonwealth that disseminates program information. The bill also requires every person that makes program information available to use an objective readability measure approved by the Department to test the readability of its program information documents and requires such persons to make program information documents available to the Department for review upon request. Under current law, use of a specific readability formula is required and a minimum total readability score is prescribed.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-330.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Medicaid; program information; accessibility.22103932D
Patron: LaRock
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply to the school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the resident school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per pupil share of special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain education-related expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to auditing, rescinding, and reviewing expenses made from such accounts.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 13 of Title 22.1 an article numbered 2.1, consisting of sections numbered 22.1-222.1 through 22.1-222.5, relating to Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts.22100732D
Patron: Guzman
Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2023. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2024.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 3 of Title 22.1 a section numbered 24.1, relating to Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council.22103266D
Patron: Ransone
Department of Education; school boards; guidelines for the provision of counseling services in public schools. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adhere to guidelines for the provision of counseling services in public schools, which shall include (i) provisions for parental consent; written parental notification; parental involvement, as appropriate; and confidentiality; (ii) procedures by which a parent may limit or prohibit his child's participation; (iii) appropriate exceptions to the procedures by which a parent may limit or prohibit his child's participation such as imminent need, health, or safety or maintaining order in the school; and (iv) any other provision deemed necessary by the Department.
A BILL to direct the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adhere to guidelines for the provision of counseling services in public schools.22101073D
Patron: Brewer
Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis to any school board that seeks to (i) establish, expand, or restore high school programs that teach students skilled trades that lead to earning industry-recognized certifications or credentials or (ii) establish, expand, or restore middle school programs that encourage and recruit students to participate in high school programs that teach students skilled trades that lead to earning industry-recognized certifications or credentials.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 4 of Chapter 13 of Title 22.1 a section numbered 22.1-227.2, relating to Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established.22102053D
Patron: Batten
Public elementary and secondary education; school boards and employees; cultural competency training; evaluations. Requires the evaluation of each public school teacher and principal and division superintendent to include an evaluation of cultural competency if the relevant local school board has adopted and implemented policies to require cultural competency training. Under current law, such an evaluation of cultural competency is required and not conditioned upon any such action of the local school board. The bill permits any school board to adopt and implement policies that require each teacher and any other school board employee holding a license issued by the Board of Education to complete cultural competency training, in accordance with guidance issued by the Board of Education, at least every two years, but only after providing 30 days' advanced written notice of and holding a public hearing regarding the adoption and implementation of such policies. Current law requires such cultural competency training and makes no provision for such notice and public hearing.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-253.13:5 and 22.1-298.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public elementary and secondary education; school boards and employees; cultural competency training; evaluations.22102820D
Patron: McQuinn
Hospitals; direct readmission of certain postpartum patients. Directs the Department of Health (the Department)to develop recommendations for protocols for hospitals that provide obstetrical services for (i) admission or transfer of any pregnant woman who presents herself while in labor and (ii) direct readmission to the hospital of any patient who received obstetrical services from the hospital, experiences postpartum complications requiring immediate medical care, and is referred to the hospital for direct readmission by the patient's health care provider. The bill requires the Department to make such recommendations available to every hospital in the Commonwealth that provides obstetrical services by December 15, 2022.
A BILL to require the Department of Health to develop recommendations for protocols for hospitals that provide obstetrical services related to admission and readmission of patients.22105928D
Patron: Rasoul
Public schools; instruction concerning gambling. Requires instruction concerning gambling and the addictive potential thereof to be provided by the public schools as prescribed by the Board of Education. The bill requires the Board of Education to report to the Chairmen of House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health a description of such instruction.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-206 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public schools; instruction concerning gambling.22102732D
Patron: Davis
Board of Education; appointment of nonvoting student advisor. Requires the Governor to appoint to the Board of Education a high school student who will enter his senior year during the following school year as a nonvoting student advisor to serve for a term of one year. The bill provides that no such student is eligible to be reappointed.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-9 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Board of Education; appointment of nonvoting student advisor.22104488D
Patron: Hope
Department of Medical Assistance Services; coordinated specialty care; work group established. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a work group, in coordination with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to evaluate and make recommendations to improve approaches to early psychosis and mood disorder detection approaches, make program funding recommendations, recommend a core set of standardized clinical and outcome measures, and evaluate coordinated specialty care programs in the Commonwealth. The work group is required by the bill to submit a five-year strategic plan annually to the General Assembly beginning November 1, 2022.
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 32.1 a section numbered 32.1-331.05, relating to Department of Medical Assistance Services; coordinated specialty care; work group established.22104391D
Patron: Ransone
Physical education; personal safety training. Requires any physical education class offered to students in grades seven and eight to include at least one hour of personal safety training per school year in each such grade level that is developed and delivered in partnership with the local law-enforcement agency and consists of situational safety awareness training, social media education, and self-defense tactics training.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 22.1-253.13:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public middle schools; physical education; personal safety training.22104704D
Patron: Davis
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; productivity analysis. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to conduct and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than December 1, 2022, a productivity analysis of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth that includes, among other metrics, an analysis of the (i) ten-year trend in the ratio of students to full-time equivalent faculty per academic program, (ii) published student to faculty ratio as a benchmark, (iii) completion rate per academic program, and (iv) plans to address both outlying low and outlying high student demand for academic programs.
A BILL to require the State Council of Higher Education to conduct a productivity analysis of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth; report.22105957D
Patron: Adams, D.M.
Nurse practitioners; practice without a practice agreement; repeal sunset. Repeals the sunset provision on the bill passed in 2021 that reduces from five to two the number of years of full-time clinical experience a nurse practitioner must have to be eligible to practice without a written or electronic practice agreement.
A BILL to repeal the second enactment of Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021 Special Session I, relating to nurse practitioners; practice without a practice agreement.22100642D
Patron: Freitas
Public institutions of higher education; academic credit; education, experience, training, and credentials in Armed Forces of the United States. Requires each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to map the existing opportunities to earn education, experience, training, and credentials in the Armed Forces of the United States to the award of academic credit at the institution.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 23.1-904 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public institutions of higher education; academic credit; education, experience, training, and credentials in Armed Forces of the United States.22106162D
Patron: Williams
Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County; Investigate feasibility of reopening and alternatives. Provides that the Patrick County Board of Supervisors may enter into a contract to investigate the feasibility of reopening the Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County, formerly known as the R.J. Reynolds Patrick County Memorial Hospital, to provide health care services, including emergency medical and rural health care services, necessary to meet the needs of residents of Patrick County and the surrounding localities and provides that any investigation undertaken pursuant to this act shall be complete by October 1, 2023.
A BILL to allow the Patrick County Board of Supervisors to enter into a contract for an investigation of the feasibility of reopening the Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County, in whole or in part, or establishing alternative locations in Patrick County and surrounding localities at which necessary health care services may be provided.22105374D
Patron: Hodges
Board of Pharmacy; pharmacy work environment requirements; emergency. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations related to work environment requirements for pharmacy personnel that protect the health, safety, and welfare of patients. The bill requires the Board of Pharmacy to adopt regulations within 280 days of enactment.
A BILL to direct the Board of Pharmacy to adopt regulations related to work environment requirements for pharmacy personnel; emergency.22104471D
EMERGENCY
Patron: Delaney
Pediatric survivors of sexual assault; Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault. Expands from under 13 years of age to under 18 years of age the age range of the pediatric survivors of sexual assault for whom each hospital must develop a plan for providing either pediatric sexual assault survivor treatment services or transfer services to an approved pediatric health care facility. The bill also allows for transfer of a survivor of sexual assault to a clinic that provides treatment services for survivors of sexual assault that are comparable to those provided by treatment hospitals, and adds a representative of a forensic clinic to the existing Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault.
A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 32.1-162.15:2, as it shall become effective, 32.1-162.15:5, and 32.1-162.15:11 of the Code of Virginia, relating to pediatric sexual assault survivors; Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault.22106424D
Patron: Byron
Health care; consent to services and disclosure of records. Provides that an authorization for the disclosure of health records shall remain in effect until (i) the authorization is revoked in writing to the person in possession of the health record subject to the authorization, (ii) any expiration date set forth in the authorization, or (iii) the person in possession of the health record becomes aware of any expiration event described in the authorization, whichever occurs first, and that a revocation shall not be effective to the extent that the person in possession of the health record released health records prior to such revocation.
The bill also provides that authorization for the release of health records shall include authorization for the person named in the authorization to assist the person who is the subject of the health record in accessing health care services, including scheduling appointments for the person who is the subject of the health record and attending appointments together with the person who is the subject of the health record.
The bill also provides that every health care provider shall make health records of a patient available to any person designated by a patient in an authorization to release medical records and that a health care provider shall allow a spouse, parent, adult child, adult sibling, or other person identified by a person to make an appointment for medical services on behalf of another person, regardless of whether the other person has executed an authorization to release medical records.
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-127.1:03 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54.1-2404.1, relating to health care; consent to services and disclosure of records.22106251D