Virginia Commerce and Labor Committee Docket — January 25, 2021

Summary

Docket of the Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee, Senate, for January 25, 2021, in the 2021 Regular session. It names Richard L. Saslaw as Chair and Autumn Green and Thomas Stevens as staff. The agenda lists Senate bills in committee, each with its patron and a summary, including SB1159 on sick leave for the care of immediate family members, SB1195 on underinsured motor vehicle coverage, SB1275 on workers' compensation presumptions, SB1323 on worker classification and SB1358 on heat illness prevention standards.

Summary drafted by a model from the document's text below and checked by script against that text before publication. It is a navigation aid, not a reading of what the document proves. Where AI is used

Full text

TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2021-01-25
DATE: 2021-01-25T00:00:00
SESSION: 2021 Regular (20211)
CHAMBER: Senate

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - Richard L. Saslaw (D) Chair

STAFF: Autumn Green, Thomas Stevens

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bill in Committee]
  999. SB1159 - Sick leave; use for the care of immediate family members.
       Patron(s): Favola
       Summary: Use sick leave for the care of immediate family members. Requires employers with a sick leave program to allow an employee to use his sick leave for the care of an immediate family member. The measure applies only to employers that have 25 or more employees and that provide paid sick leave that allows an employee to be absent from work in the event of the employee's own incapacity, illness, or injury. The measure applies only to employees who work at least 30 hours per week, and it caps the amount of sick leave that may be used for the care of immediate family members at five days per calendar
  999. SB1195 - Motor vehicle insurance; underinsured motor vehicle, uninsured motorist coverage.
       Patron(s): Obenshain
       Summary: Motor vehicle insurance; underinsured motor vehicle. Provides that a policy or contract of bodily injury and property damage liability insurance for the use of a motor vehicle shall contain an endorsement or provisions obligating the insurer to make payment for injury or damage caused by an underinsured vehicle without any credit, set-off, or reduction for the available bodily injury and property damage coverage. The bill provides that a motor vehicle is underinsured when the total amount of bodily injury and property damage coverage applicable to the operation or use of the motor vehicle and
  999. SB1223 - Va. Energy Plan; amends Plan to include an analysis of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
       Patron(s): Boysko
       Summary: Transportation electrification; Virginia Energy Plan. Amends the Virginia Energy Plan to include an analysis of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and other infrastructure needed to support the 2045 net-zero carbon target in the transportation sector.
  999. SB1247 - Electric generating facility closures; integrated resource plan.
       Patron(s): Deeds
       Summary: Electric utilities; closure of carbon-emitting generating units. Requires each owner of a large carbon-emitting power plant to provide notice to relevant localities and state agencies about the decision to close the plant within 30 days of making such decision The bill requires localities in which such facilities are located, and planning district commissions in such localities, to conduct public hearings regarding the impending closure within six months of receipt of such notice. The bill requires the Division of Energy to maintain a public website listing the facilities subject to the requir
  999. SB1269 - Health insurance; authorization of drug prescribed for the treatment of a mental disorder.
       Patron(s): McPike
       Summary: Health insurance; authorization of drug prescribed for the treatment of a mental disorder. Requires that any provider contract between a carrier and a participating health care provider with prescriptive authority, or its contracting agent, contain provisions that require, when a carrier has previously approved prior authorization for any drug prescribed for the treatment of a mental disorder listed in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association, no additional prior authorization can be required if (i) t
  999. SB1275 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.
       Patron(s): Marsden
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for salaried or volunteer emergency medical services personnel who have at least five years of service and are operating in a locality that has legally adopted a resolution declaring that it will provide one or more of such presumptions. The provisions of the bill do not apply to any individual who was diagnosed with hypertension or heart disease before July 1, 2021. This bill is identical to HB 1818.
  999. SB1284 - Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy; established.
       Patron(s): Favola
       Summary: Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy. Establishes the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy, replacing the Commonwealth Energy Policy. The bill sets out the energy policy and objectives of the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy, which include: (i) the Commonwealth recognizes that effectively addressing climate change and enhancing resilience will advance the health, welfare, and safety of the residents of the Commonwealth and that addressing climate change requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the Commonwealth's economy sufficient to reach net-zero emission by 2045 in all sectors, including t
  999. SB1289 - Health insurance; carrier business practices, etc.
       Patron(s): Surovell
       Summary: Health insurance; provider contracts. Requires that each provider contract include a provision prohibiting a provider from discriminating against any enrollee solely due to the enrollee's status as a litigant in pending litigation or a potential litigant due to being involved in a motor vehicle accident. The bill provides that the State Corporation Commission, if it has cause to believe that a provider has engaged in a pattern of such discrimination, may submit information to the Board of Medicine or the Commissioner of Health for action.
  999. SB1310 - Virginia Human Rights Act; application of laws applicable to employee safety and payment of wages.
       Patron(s): McClellan
       Summary: Employment; domestic service; Virginia Human Rights Act. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic service are not excluded from employee protection laws and laws regarding the payment of wages. The measure also provides that the prohibitions on nondiscrimination in employment of the Virginia Human Rights Act apply to employers that employ one or more domestic workers.
  999. SB1323 - Worker classification; qualification of independent contractors.
       Patron(s): Dunnavant
       Summary: Worker classification; independent contractors. Provides that in a proceeding involving allegations of worker misclassification an individual or business is not considered an employee with respect to a hiring party if the person qualifies as an independent contractor relative to the hiring party under the common law right-of control test as established by the Internal Revenue Service Revenue Ruling 87-41, by an applicable determination of the Internal Revenue Service, or if (i) the individual or business signs a written contract with the hiring party stating that the individual or business is
  999. SB1334 - Broadband capacity; expands existing pilot program, municipal broadband authorities.
       Patron(s): Edwards
       Summary: Pilot program for broadband capacity; municipal broadband authorities. Expands the existing broadband pilot program to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-owned broadband authorities in order to provide broadband service to unserved areas of the Commonwealth.
  999. SB1341 - Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons.
       Patron(s): Barker
       Summary: Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons. Provides that a licensed insurer may issue a policy of group accident and sickness insurance to an association of real estate salespersons (association), which association shall be deemed the policyholder, and that such association health plan is not considered to be insurance and is not subject to the existing requirements for insurance if certain requirements are met. The bill requires that (i) all members of the association be eligible for coverage and membership, including employer members with at least one employee th
  999. SB1342 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Vogel
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and correctional officers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill provides that the COVID-19 virus is established by a positive diagnostic test for COVID-19, an incubation period consistent with COVID-19, and signs and symptoms of COVID-19 that require medical treatment. The bill provides that such presumption applies to any death or
  999. SB1351 - Workers' compensation; claims not barred.
       Patron(s): Lewis
       Summary: Workers' compensation; claims not barred. Provides that an order issued by the Workers' Compensation Commission awarding or denying benefits shall not bar by res judicata any claim by an employee or cause a waiver, abandonment, or dismissal of any claim by an employee if the order does not expressly adjudicate such claim.
  999. SB1358 - Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention.
       Patron(s): Hashmi
       Summary: Employment health and safety standards; heat illness prevention. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt regulations establishing standards designed to protect employees from heat illness, defined in the bill. The measure authorizes an employee to bring an action based on a violation of such standards in which injunctive relief and monetary damages may be sought.
  999. SB1375 - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
       Patron(s): Saslaw
       Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, correctional officers, and regional jail officers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill provides that such presumption applies to any death or disability occurring on or after July 1, 2020, caused by infection from the COVID-19 virus, provided that for any such death or disability that occurred on or after July 1, 2020, and prior t
  999. SB1380 - Electric utilities; electric school bus projects.
       Patron(s): Lucas
       Summary: Electric utilities; electric school bus projects; report. Authorizes electric utilities to partner with school divisions to implement projects designed to encourage the proliferation of school buses that are fueled in whole or in part by electricity, along with associated charging and other infrastructure, for the purpose of transporting students and that may also serve as electric grid stabilization or peak-shaving resources. The bill provides that if an electric school bus project meets the requirements in the bill, then it is in the public interest and may constitute an energy storage resou
  999. SB1413 - Phase I or Phase II electric utilities; provision of broadband capacity.
       Patron(s): Boysko
       Summary: Provision of broadband capacity by Phase I or Phase II electric utilities. Makes permanent the pilot program under which a Phase I or Phase II electric utility is permitted to petition the State Corporation Commission to provide broadband capacity to unserved areas of the Commonwealth. The bill expands the program to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-owned broadband authorities. The bill provides that investor-owned electric utilities may recover costs of and revenue generated from providing broadband capacity that serves as an electric grid transformation project in
  999. SB1420 - Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers, third party power purchase agreements.
       Patron(s): Edwards
       Summary: Electric utilities; nonjurisdictional customers; third party power purchase agreements. Provides that for pilot programs under which an owner or operator of a renewable energy generation facility sells electricity to an eligible customer-generator through a third party power purchase agreement, both jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customers may participate on a first-come, first-serve basis.

File and source

File

20211-2021-01-25-docket1.txt

Size

12,676 bytes

SHA-256

2f5c2f3d7a9f614265ab72850e93301065b71167261567e11172a13caa1f8cc8

Our copy

20211-2021-01-25-docket1.txt

Original

No public link identified.