Bills Pending Virginia House Labor and Commerce Committee

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VAHB397Intro

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Regulation of electric utilities; development of renewable energy facilities; powers of State Air Pollution Control Board; powers of State Corporation Commission. Repeals provisions (i) requiring the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulat...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB693Intro

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State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and lat...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1142Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for physical therapy; outpatient visit limit. Prohibits (i) insurers proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an ...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1027Intro

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Energy policy of the Commonwealth; state authority; legislative declaration. Declares that affordable, reliable, and secure energy resources are important to the health, safety, and welfare of the Commonwealth's citizens and provides that the Commonw...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1006Intro

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Health insurance; pharmacies; freedom of choice; delivery of prescription drugs or devices. Prohibits an insurer, health maintenance organization, corporation providing preferred provider subscription contracts, or pharmacy benefits manager from impo...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB325Intro

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Minimum wage and overtime wages; civil actions. Provides that an employer that violates minimum wage or overtime provisions is liable to the employee for the applicable remedies, damages, or other relief available in an action brought pursuant to the...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB792Intro

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Electric utilities; regulation of rates; prohibited recovery; report. Provides that the State Corporation Commission shall consider any rate, toll, charge, or schedule of a public utility just and reasonable only if the investor-owned public electric...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1265Intro

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Consumer reporting agencies; medical debt. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from making any consumer report containing any adverse item of information that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know concerns medical debt except in the ca...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB903Intro

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Health insurance; cost-sharing requirements for the treatment of cancer; prohibited for individuals 18 years of age or younger. Prohibits any (i) insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospit...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB513Intro

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State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB760Intro

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Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for insulin and diabetes equipment and supplies; limit. Decreases the cap on the cost-sharing payment that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription insulin drug from $50 to $35 for a 30-da...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB543Intro

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Virginia Employment Commission; appeals proceedings; appeal tribunals and Board of Review; repeal. Specifies that any determination made by the Virginia Employment Commission in regards to any amount required to be deducted and withheld from unemploy...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB370Intro

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Employment; training and education; harassment and workplace discrimination. Requires each employer with 50 or more employees, including the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions, to provide annual interactive traini...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB946Intro

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Health insurance; limit on cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs under certain plans. Requires each carrier that offers a health plan in either the individual or small group market to ensure that at least 50 percent of all health plans offered...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB741Intro

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Department of Environmental Quality; nuclear energy electric generation facilities; permitting. Redefines "small renewable energy projects" as "small clean energy projects" and adds an electrical generation facility with a rated capacity not exceedin...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1300Intro

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"Occupational disease" definition.Clarifies that for the purpose of worker's compensation claims, an "occupational disease" does not include certain physical conditions resulting from repetitive and sustained physical stressors. "Occupational diseas...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB64Intro

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Medicare supplement policies; annual open enrollment period. Requires an insurer, health services plan, or health maintenance organization issuing Medicare supplement policies or certificates in the Commonwealth to offer to an individual currently in...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1506Intro

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Retail franchise agreements; governing law; competition restrictions. Provides that retail franchise agreements shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth and prohibits any person from offering or entering into a franchise agreement that inclu...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB403Intro

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Electric utilities; temporary power purchase agreements. Provides that if the State Corporation Commission determines that, due to transmission constraints, a public utility is not able to furnish electric service sufficient to meet the current and r...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1334Intro

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Energy Innovation Program; established. Establishes the Energy Innovation Program to foster the development of innovative energy projects by allowing Program participants to provide grid services or other beneficial energy measures. Under the Program...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB821Intro

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Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB82Intro

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Unemployment compensation; maximum duration of benefits. Provides that the maximum duration for which a claimant may receive unemployment compensation benefits shall be calculated based on the average, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the Com...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB856Intro

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Public utilities; rate increases during certain months prohibited. Prohibits the regulated operating revenues of certain public utilities from being increased in the months of November, December, January, or February. The bill's limitation does not a...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB902Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage, under any health insurance contract, policy, or plan that includes coverage for prescription drugs on an outpatient basis, for any...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB340Intro

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Electric utilities; underground transmission lines. Provides that the construction and reconstruction of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts and less than 500 kilovolts along a highway right-of...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1136Intro

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Health insurance; employee welfare benefit plans; pharmacy audit protections. Requires contracts and provider contracts between an entity providing or administering self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans and an intermediary or a p...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1074Intro

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Renewable energy portfolio standard; eligibility of hydrogen and nuclear resources. Provides that, for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard, eligible sources include (i) hydrogen resources that are produced from zero-carbon generat...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB3Intro

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State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and lat...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB118Intro

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Electric utilities; cost recovery for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Requires Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power, by May 1, 2025, to (i) file a proposal with the State Corporation Commission to design and deploy all electrical ...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB117Intro

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Net energy metering; solar interconnection; cost recovery. Provides that an electric distribution company shall pay 33 cents ($0.33) per kilowatt-hour per day for the costs of lost electricity production for any and all delays beyond the regulatory n...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB104Intro

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Provider contracts; pharmacies; refusal to fill certain prescriptions. Requires a provider contract between a health carrier or its pharmacy benefits manager and a pharmacy or its contracting agent to contain a specific provision allowing the pharmac...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1344Intro

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Employee protection; prohibited retaliation; prohibited nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions; civil action. Prohibits the inclusion of a provision in any employment contract that has the purpose or effect of concealing illegal activity or ac...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1041Intro

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Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers' compensation and duties: civil penalty. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining "defined cost-sharing," "price...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1280Intro

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Consumer protection; failure to honor service warranty. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from failing to honor a service warranty of another supplier after acquiring the business of such other supplier. A violation of th...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1320Intro

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Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB975Intro

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Electric utilities; notice required for customer return to service. Decreases the required written notice period to 90 days for certain electric energy customers to return to service by an investor-owned utility after purchasing electric energy from ...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1320Intro

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Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB976Intro

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Electric utilities; State Corporation Commission; energy policy of the Commonwealth. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the Commonwealth implements the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law, at the lowest...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1041Intro

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Health insurance; cost-sharing; pharmacy benefits managers' compensation and duties: civil penalty. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining "defined cost-sharing," "price...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB976Intro

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Electric utilities; State Corporation Commission; energy policy of the Commonwealth. Requires the State Corporation Commission to ensure that the Commonwealth implements the energy policy of the Commonwealth, as defined by relevant law, at the lowest...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB975Intro

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Electric utilities; notice required for customer return to service. Decreases the required written notice period to 90 days for certain electric energy customers to return to service by an investor-owned utility after purchasing electric energy from ...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1280Intro

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Consumer protection; failure to honor service warranty. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from failing to honor a service warranty of another supplier after acquiring the business of such other supplier. A violation of th...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB636Intro

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Siting of energy facilities; approval by State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commissio...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB636Intro

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Siting of energy facilities; approval by State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commissio...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1344Intro

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Employee protection; prohibited retaliation; prohibited nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions; civil action. Prohibits the inclusion of a provision in any employment contract that has the purpose or effect of concealing illegal activity or ac...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB68Intro

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Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by dispatchers. Allows dispatchers, as defined in the bill, to claim workers' compensation benefits relating to post-traumatic stress disorder under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act...
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2024-02-06
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB68Intro

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Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by dispatchers. Allows dispatchers, as defined in the bill, to claim workers' compensation benefits relating to post-traumatic stress disorder under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act...
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2024-02-06
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB864Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. Requires health insurers providing health care plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment services for children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in the in bil...
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2024-02-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB864Intro

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Health insurance; coverage for therapeutic day treatment services. Requires health insurers providing health care plans to provide coverage for therapeutic day treatment services for children with serious emotional disturbances, defined in the in bil...
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2024-02-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB373Intro

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Financial institutions; reporting financial exploitation of elderly or vulnerable adults. Permits a financial institution, as defined in the bill, to allow an elderly or vulnerable adult, as defined in the bill, to submit and periodically update a li...
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2024-02-01
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
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