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Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-03-02

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Docket for the Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee dated 2020-03-02, in the 2020 Regular session, with Richard L. Saslaw (D) as chair and staff Autumn Green and Thomas Stevens. It lists bills in committee, beginning with HB55 by Carter, which would establish worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations, followed by HB56 by Carter on classification of tipped employees under the minimum wage and HB66 by Carter on cost-sharing for prescription insulin drugs. Other items include HB1429 by Roem on health insurance nondiscrimination and several electric utility and transmission line bills, such as HB1656 by O'Quinn on incentive programs for low-income customers.

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TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-03-02
DATE: 2020-03-02T00:00:00
SESSION: 2020 Regular (20201)
CHAMBER: Senate

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

STAFF: Autumn Green, Thomas Stevens

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bills in Committee]
  999. HB55 - Worker cooperatives; establishes as a category of cooperative associations.
       Patron(s): Carter
       Summary: Worker cooperatives. Establishes worker cooperatives as a category of cooperative associations. A worker cooperative is a stock corporation that has elected to be governed by provisions established by this measure, which include (i) conducting its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members, (ii) allowing only current and retired employees to be members, (iii) limiting voting rights to current employees, (iv) providing that each employee is entitled to one vote, (v) prohibiting any person from owning more than one membership share, (vi) requiring at least two-thirds of employees t
  999. HB56 - Minimum wage; tipped employees, classification.
       Patron(s): Carter
       Summary: Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as a tipped employee if the individual is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips.
  999. HB66 - Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs.
       Patron(s): Carter
       Summary: Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $50 per 30-day supply that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale in order to receive a covered prescription insulin drug. The measure also prohibits a provider contract between a carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy from containing a provision (i) authorizing the carrier's pharmacy benefits manager or the pharmacy to charge, (ii) requiring the pharmacy to collect, or (iii) requiring a covered perso
  999. HB665 - Electrical transmission lines; effect on scenic assets, historic resources, and environment.
       Patron(s): Mullin
       Summary: Electrical transmission lines; effect on historic resources. Requires the State Corporation Commission (SCC), prior to approving the construction of any electrical transmission lines of 138 kilovolts or more, to determine that the corridor or route chosen for the line will avoid or reasonably minimize adverse impact to the greatest extent reasonably practicable on the scenic assets, historic resources recorded with the Department of Historic Resources, and environment of the area concerned. Currently, the SCC is required to determine that such a line's corridor or route will reasonably minimiz
  999. HB723 - Underground pipelines and electrical transmission lines; agriculture.
       Patron(s): Reid
       Summary: Underground pipelines and conduit and electrical transmission lines; agriculture. Requires a utility company installing an underground pipeline or conduit with an inside diameter greater than 12 inches or an underground electric transmission or distribution line of greater than 115 kilovolts in capacity to mitigate the effects of the project if the project disturbs 10,000 square feet or more of agricultural land. The bill directs the State Corporation Commission to adopt regulations requiring the utility company to remove topsoil from the planned construction site and either redistribute it to
  999. HB1030 - Electrical transmission lines; placement of overhead and underground lines.
       Patron(s): Roem
       Summary: Electric utility regulation; pilot program for undergrounding electrical transmission lines. Provides that the State Corporation Commission's approval of a proposed transmission line for inclusion in a pilot program established as part of the Grid Transformation and Security Act enacted in 2018 (i) precludes the placement of future overhead electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts in the same area or corridor by other transmission projects for a period of 10 years and (ii) does not preclude (a) any underground transmission lines in such right-of-way or (b) any electrical distribu
  999. HB1057 - Health insurance; clinical nurse specialists.
       Patron(s): Adams, D.M.
       Summary: Health insurance; clinical nurse specialists. Prohibits health insurers and health service plan providers whose policies or contracts cover services that may be legally performed by a licensed clinical nurse specialist from denying reimbursement because the service is rendered by a licensed clinical nurse specialist. The measure removes the existing limitation that requires such reimbursement only to licensed clinical nurse specialists who render mental health services.
  999. HB1132 - Electric utility regulation; initial triennial review, requirements.
       Patron(s): Jones, J.C.
       Summary: Electric utility regulation; initial triennial review. Establishes requirements for the first scheduled triennial review proceeding for Virginia Electric and Power Company that is scheduled to be conducted in 2021. The measure directs that such initial triennial review shall consist of a generation and distribution rate case conducted solely pursuant to Chapter 10 (§ 56-232 et seq.) of Title 56 of the Code of Virginia, rules of the State Corporation Commission, and this measure. As part of the initial triennial review, the Commission is directed to review the earnings during the utility's test
  999. HB1141 - Health benefit plans; renewal of plans, special exception.
       Patron(s): Tran
       Summary: Health benefit plans; special exception. Eliminates provisions of the Code of Virginia authorizing health carriers to sell, issue, or offer for sale any health benefit plan that would otherwise not be permitted to be sold, issued, or offered for sale due to conflict with the requirements of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), to the extent that the requirements of the PPACA are amended by any federal law.
  999. HB1183 - Bulk energy storage resources; State Corporation Commission.
       Patron(s): Lopez
       Summary: State Corporation Commission; bulk energy storage resources. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a task force to evaluate and analyze the potential for bulk energy storage resources to, among other things, help integrate renewable energy into the electrical grid. The measure requires the Commission to submit the results of task force's evaluation and analysis to the General Assembly by October 1, 2021.
  999. HB1225 - Electric utilities; notice before terminating service.
       Patron(s): Tran
       Summary: Electric utilities; notice before terminating service. Prohibits an electric utility from terminating the residential service of a customer for nonpayment for metered services when the electric utility believes that the customer is receiving or has received electric utility services for which the customer was not properly billed as the result of tampering with the electric utility's meter until the electric utility has (i) retrieved the meter from the customer's premises, which may be done without providing prior notice to the customer; (ii) immediately replaced it with a new meter; and (iii)
  999. HB1252 - Registered apprenticeship programs; prohibited discrimination.
       Patron(s): Scott, D.
       Summary: Apprenticeship program; discrimination. Prohibits a sponsor of a registered apprenticeship program from discriminating against an apprentice or applicant for apprenticeship on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, or disability. The measure conforms Virginia's apprenticeship nondiscrimination requirements to those required for state apprenticeship agencies pursuant to federal Office of Apprenticeship regulations adopted in 2016.
  999. HB1280 - Electric utilities; broadband capacity.
       Patron(s): O'Quinn
       Summary: Electric utilities; broadband capacity. Authorizes an electric utility to lease to any third party that is a wholesaler and that is not a government-owned broadband authority, for the purposes of providing broadband connectivity. The leases may extend in length beyond the end of the pilot program under which the utility provides broadband capacity to nongovernmental Internet service providers in areas of the Commonwealth unserved by broadband.
  999. HB1291 - Medical assistance services; managed care organization contracts with pharmacy benefits managers.
       Patron(s): Hodges
       Summary: Medical assistance services; managed care organization contracts with pharmacy benefits managers; spread pricing. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to require a managed care organization with which the Department enters into an agreement for the delivery of medical assistance services to include in any agreement between the managed care organization and a pharmacy benefits manager provisions prohibiting the pharmacy benefits manager or a representative of the pharmacy benefits manager from conducting spread pricing with regard to the managed care organization's managed car
  999. HB1303 - Nuclear energy; strategic plan for overall goal of carbon-free energy.
       Patron(s): Hurst
       Summary: Nuclear energy; strategic plan. Directs the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, and the Secretary of Education to work in coordination with the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to develop a strategic plan for the role of nuclear energy in the Commonwealth's overall strategy for moving toward renewable and carbon-free energy. The plan shall be completed by October 1, 2020, and updated every four years thereafter. This bill is identical to SB 549.
  999. HB1429 - Health insurance; nondiscrimination, gender identity or transgender status.
       Patron(s): Roem
       Summary: Health insurance; nondiscrimination; gender identity or transgender status. Prohibits a health carrier from denying or limiting coverage or imposing additional cost sharing or other limitations or restrictions on coverage, under a health benefit plan for health care services that are ordinarily or exclusively available to covered individuals of one sex, to a transgender individual on the basis of the fact that the individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender otherwise recorded is different from the one to which such health services are ordinarily or exclusively available. The
  999. HB1656 - Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers.
       Patron(s): O'Quinn
       Summary: Electric utilities; incentive programs for low-income customers. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power to recover, through a rate adjustment clause, the costs of designing, implementing, and operating programs to provide incentives to low-income, elderly, and disabled individuals who participate in an energy conservation program, or to organizations providing residential services to such individuals, for the installation of, or access to, solar energy generating equipment. The measure also clarifies that these utilities shall submit a petition for approval to design,

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