Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2024-03-04

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This is a Virginia (S02) committee docket dated 2024-03-04 for the 2024 Regular session, listing R. Creigh Deeds as Chair. Its agenda includes HB109, which requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of a regional transmission entity to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year. HB474, the Restroom Access Act, requires a retail establishment without a public restroom to let customers with an eligible medical condition use the employee toilet facility, and a customer who suffers loss may bring an action to recover damages not to exceed $100. HB1060 requires long-term care insurers to notify policyholders of a rate increase filing within 60 days.

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TITLE: Virginia  (S02) Committee Docket — 2024-03-04
DATE: 2024-03-04T00:00:00
SESSION: 2024 Regular (20241)
CHAMBER: Senate

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - R. Creigh Deeds (D) Chair

STAFF: Horton, Andrew, Hobie Lehman, Thomas Stevens

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bill in Committee]
  999. HB109 - Electric utilities; regional transmission entities, annual report.
       Patron(s): Sullivan
       Summary: Electric utilities; regional transmission entities; annual report. Requires each incumbent electric utility that is a member of or has established a regional transmission entity for purposes of management and control of its transmission system as required under current law to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year. Such report shall include all recorded votes cast by the utility during the immediately preceding calendar year, all votes cast by an affiliate of the utility, and a brief description explaining how each vote cast by the utility or its affiliate is in the public interest
  999. HB275 - Public utilities; delay of termination of service for certain residential customers, report.
       Patron(s): Helmer
       Summary: Public utilities; delay of termination of service for certain residential customers; serious medical condition; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission to conduct a proceeding to establish limitations on the authority of public utilities and cooperatives that provide electric, gas, water, or wastewater services to terminate service to any residential customer who provides certification that the customer has a serious medical condition or the customer resides with a family member with a serious medical condition. The bill directs the Commission to adopt regulations to implement such l
  999. HB474 - Restroom Access Act; civil liability.
       Patron(s): Coyner
       Summary: Restroom Access Act. Requires a retail establishment that does not have a public restroom but has an employee toilet facility to allow any customer with an eligible medical condition, as defined in the bill, to use such employee toilet facility during normal business hours if certain conditions are met. A customer who suffers loss as a result of a violation may bring an action to recover damages not to exceed $100.
  999. HB714 - Electric utilities; pilot program for underground transmission lines, additional project.
       Patron(s): Webert
       Summary: Electric utilities; pilot program for underground transmission lines; additional project. Adds one project to the existing pilot program for underground transmission lines. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to approve one additional application filed between January 1, 2024, and October 1, 2024, as a qualifying project to be constructed in whole or in part underground, as a part of the pilot program. The bill requires that the added qualifying project be a newly proposed 230-kilovolt underground line and that (i) an engineering analysis demonstrates that it is technically feas
  999. HB736 - Veterans; examining practice of persons receiving compensation for providing certain services, etc.
       Patron(s): Sewell
       Summary: Department of Law; compensation for veterans' benefits matters; work group; report. Directs the Department of Law's Division of Consumer Counsel to convene a work group to examine and make recommendations regarding the practice of persons receiving compensation for preparing, presenting, prosecuting, advising, consulting, or assisting any individual regarding any veterans' benefits matter, as defined in the bill.
  999. HB1019 - Health insurance; locality to allow local employees to participate in its group insurance programs.
       Patron(s): Wilt
       Summary: Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is not otherwise entitled to participate, provided that such non-benefitted employees reimburse the locality for the full cost of their participation. The bill provides that reimbursement may include forgoing all or a part of a local government salary.
  999. HB1060 - Long-term care insurance; rate increases, notice requirements.
       Patron(s): Tran
       Summary: Long-term care insurance; rate increases; notice requirements. Requires an insurer providing long-term care insurance policies to issue a written notice to each policyholder of the insurer's filing for a rate increase with the State Corporation Commission within 60 days of making such filing. Additionally, the bill requires the insurer to (i) if the Commission denies the rate increase, issue a written notice to each policyholder of the Commission's final decision to deny the rate increase within 90 days of such decision or (ii) if the Commission approves the rate increase, issue a written noti
  999. HB1103 - VA Employment Commission; provision of certain confidential information to VA Port Authority.
       Patron(s): Wyatt
       Summary: Virginia Employment Commission; provision of certain confidential information to the Virginia Port Authority. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to provide certain employment information to the Virginia Port Authority as may be necessary to facilitate the administration and enforcement by the Authority of performance agreements with businesses that have received incentive awards. The bill provides that any information provided to the Authority is confidential, requires that the information only be disclosed to members of the Authority who are public officials or employees of the Autho
  999. HB1215 - Asbestos and lead project permit; usage of licensing fees.
       Patron(s): Higgins
       Summary: Department of Labor and Industry; asbestos and lead project permit; usage of licensing fees. Provides that fees collected by the Department of Labor and Industry paid by licensed asbestos and certified lead contractors for obtaining asbestos and lead project permits are to be used by the Department in carrying out its mission under the Virginia Asbestos NESHAP Act.
  999. HB1257 - Insurance; optional coverage for the diminished value of personal property.
       Patron(s): Milde
       Summary: Insurance; coverage for the diminished value of personal property. Requires any insurer who issues or delivers a new or renewal homeowner's insurance policy or a stand-alone policy that covers scheduled personal property in the Commonwealth to offer in writing a provision providing coverage for the diminution in the value of any such scheduled personal property, if the schedule provides for the repair of such property. Under the bill, the diminution in value of the personal property is the amount, if any, by which the market value of the personal property immediately following the completion o
  999. HB1286 - Uniform Commercial Code; amendments to provisions.
       Patron(s): Hayes
       Summary: Uniform Commercial Code; amendments. Makes a number of amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as adopted in Virginia. The bill amends the definitions of "money" and "conspicuous" for purposes of the UCC and makes extensive amendments throughout provisions related to UCC Article 9 to accommodate emerging technologies. Such amendments include updating the traditional rules for attachment and perfection to apply to digital assets, such as controllable electronic records, and changes to several definitions, including "chattel paper," which is reconfigured to reflect the concept that chatt
  999. HB1376 - Submetering or energy allocation equipment; billing requirements, unit owners.
       Patron(s): Reid
       Summary: Submetering or energy allocation equipment; billing requirements; unit owners. Provides that for the purposes of rules promulgated by the State Corporation Commission related to billing requirements and all other rules related to submetering or energy allocation equipment, those rules applicable to tenants will be applicable to residential and nonresidential unit owners.
  999. HB1392 - Local government; employee insurance programs.
       Patron(s): Jones
       Summary: Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in its group life, accident, and health insurance programs any person to whom coverage could be extended under the provision of current law that sets out who may be covered under a private group accident and sickness insurance policy.

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