Juvenile transfer hearing; factors to be considered. Adds the nature and extent of any prior trauma to the list of factors a juvenile and domestic relations district court shall consider when determining whether a juvenile is a proper person to remain within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court or to transfer the juvenile to circuit court for prosecution.

Long-term care insurance; rate increases; notice requirements. Requires an insurer of 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 or (ii) if the Commission approves the rate increase, issue a written notice to policyholders of the rate increase at least 90 days before its effective date that includes certain information. The bill requires the Commission to consider, to the extent practicable, how the rate increase will impact policyholders in reviewing requests to increase long-term care insurance rates. Long-term care insurance; rate increases; notice requirements. Requires an insurer of 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 or (ii) if the Commission approves the rate increase, issue a written notice to policyholders of the rate increase at least 90 days before its effective date that includes certain information. The bill requires the Commission to consider, to the extent practicable, how the rate increase will impact policyholders in reviewing requests to increase long-term care insurance rates.

In-person visitation policies and procedures at certain In-person visitation policies and procedures at certain facilities. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, hospices or hospice facilities, assisted living facilities, and intermediate care facilities to establish certain in-person visitation policies and procedures. The bill (i) requires that such policies include screening, personal protective equipment, and other infection control protocols for visitors; (ii) prohibits such policies from requiring the visitor to provide proof of immunization or vaccination; (iii) requires such policies to allow consensual physical contact between the visitor and the resident, client, or patient of the facility; (iv) authorizes the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver and establishes requirements related to essential caregivers; (v) requires that such policies allow unrestricted in-person visitation under certain circumstances; (vi) provides that the policies and procedures may require visitors to agree in writing to follow such policies and procedures; (vii) authorizes facilities to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors for violations of such agreement; (viii) requires facilities to make their in-person policies and procedures available to the Department of Health for review when applying for initial licensure, licensure renewal, or change of ownership; and (ix) requires facilities and the Department of Health to make their in-person visitation policies and procedures easily accessible from their websites.

Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting parent of such health records would be reasonably likely deter the minor from seeking care. Under the bill, a minor 16 years of age or older who is determined by a health care provider to be mature and capable of giving informed consent shall be deemed an adult for the purpose of giving consent to treatment of a mental or emotional disorder. The bill provides that the capacity of a minor to consent to treatment of a mental or emotional disorder does not include the capacity to (i) refuse treatment for a mental or emotional disorder for which a parent, guardian, or custodian of the minor has given consent or (ii) if the minor is under 16 years of age, consent to the use of prescription medications to treat a mental or emotional disorder.

Alcoholic beverage control; beer distribution. Creates a restricted wholesale beer license that authorizes the licensee to provide wholesale beer distribution services to brewery and limited brewery licensees, provided that no more than 500 barrels of beer shall be distributed by the corporation to each licensee in any one calendar year. The bill requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and operate a nonprofit, nonstock corporation to hold such license to promote, develop, and sustain markets for brewery and limited brewery licensees. The bill prohibits the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority from (i) granting a wholesale wine license to any entity that is owned, in whole or in part, by any manufacturer of alcoholic beverages, any subsidiary or affiliate of such manufacturer, or any person under common control with such manufacturer and (ii) granting a wholesale beer license to any officer, director, or principal stockholder of a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages or to the spouse of such person; however, the bill exempts from such prohibition any spouse of an officer, director, or principal stockholder of a brewery or limited brewery licensee that was granted such license prior to January 1, 2024. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. Alcoholic beverage control; beer distribution. Creates a restricted wholesale beer license that authorizes the licensee to provide wholesale beer distribution services to brewery and limited brewery licensees, provided that no more than 500 barrels of beer shall be distributed by the corporation to each licensee in any one calendar year. The bill requires the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and operate a nonprofit, nonstock corporation to hold such license to promote, develop, and sustain markets for brewery and limited brewery licensees. The bill prohibits the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority from (i) granting a wholesale wine license to any entity that is owned, in whole or in part, by any manufacturer of alcoholic beverages, any subsidiary or affiliate of such manufacturer, or any person under common control with such manufacturer and (ii) granting a wholesale beer license to any officer, director, or principal stockholder of a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages or to the spouse of such person; however, the bill exempts from such prohibition any spouse of an officer, director, or principal stockholder of a brewery or limited brewery licensee that was granted such license prior to January 1, 2024. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.

Study; JLARC; Department of Juvenile Justice; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and benefits of transferring responsibility for the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. Study; JLARC; Department of Juvenile Justice; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and benefits of transferring responsibility for the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources.

Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS). The bill adds specialized student support positions to the list of employees that may return to work with a six-month break in service and specifies that the employer shall include such employees' compensation in membership payroll for purposes of the employer contributions to VRS. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028, for the reduction of the required break in service for all classes of employees. Finally, the bill requires VRS to submit a report regarding options for employing certain enumerated positions part-time during the required six-month break in service period. Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS). The bill adds specialized student support positions to the list of employees that may return to work with a six-month break in service and specifies that the employer shall include such employees' compensation in membership payroll for purposes of the employer contributions to VRS. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028, for the reduction of the required break in service for all classes of employees. Finally, the bill requires VRS to submit a report regarding options for employing certain enumerated positions part-time during the required six-month break in service period.

Housing; creation of the Zoning for Housing Production Act; affordable dwelling unit policy incentives. Creates, within the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Zoning for Housing Production Act, which establishes a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury to be known as the Zoning for Housing Production Fund. The bill requires moneys from the Fund to be awarded as grants to localities by application to the Department for the purpose of creating and maintaining affordable housing in mixed-income communities, defined in the bill. To be eligible for a grant from the Fund, a locality is required to make a change to such locality's zoning ordinance in accordance with the requirements of the bill. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2029.

Interagency task force on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Directs the Secretaries of Education and Labor to convene a task force of relevant state agencies who house Title I, II, and III programs and the state's Registered Apprenticeship program, as well as representatives from the Virginia Community College System, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, the Virginia Association of Workforce Directors, and organized labor, to consider possible alternatives for the alignment of Titles I, II, and III funded by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The task force shall include in its review the challenges, opportunities, and costs for each considered reorganization model. The task force shall also consult with the Virginia representative from the U.S. Department of Labor and consider the December 2021 Workforce System Evaluation report submitted to the Governor and the Virginia Board of Workforce Development. The Secretaries of Education and Labor shall submit their executive summary and report by June 30, 2024.

Study; STARR Alert Program; alert program to notify vehicle repair shops of nearby reported traffic incidents. Directs the Department of Transportation to study the need for an alert program, to be known as the STARR Alert Program, to notify vehicle repair shops of nearby reported traffic incidents and crashes and to (i) investigate the cost of implementing such a program; (ii) collect traffic incident data; (iii) investigate the effect of such a program on vehicle repair shops; (iv) investigate the effect of such a program on the Department of State Police procedures and practices; and (v) determine an appropriate alert radius from a reported traffic incident site to vehicle repair shops and the feasibility of widespread use of such a program in all areas of the Commonwealth.

School Choice Educational Savings Accounts. Permits the parents of qualified students to apply to the local school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable School Choice Educational Savings Account that consists of a monetary 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. The bill sets out the education-related qualifying expenditures for which the parent of a qualified student may use the funds in the savings account, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks and instructional materials at (i) a private elementary or secondary school located in the Commonwealth, (ii) certain nonpublic online learning programs, and (iii) institutions of higher education and requires the Department of Education to establish certain policies, procedures, and processes relating to the savings accounts.

Public institutions of higher education; tuition and financial aid; dependency override application form. Requires each public institution of higher education to create and maintain a form by which a student may apply for a dependency override, defined in the bill as the documented determination by a financial aid administrator pursuant to relevant federal law that, for the purposes of tuition and financial aid eligibility determinations, a student is an independent student by reason of other unusual circumstances. The bill requires such form to (i) be published electronically on the financial aid page of the institution's website; (ii) clearly explain, in language understandable to a student enrolled at the institution, the purposes of a dependency override, potential circumstances that may qualify a student for a dependency override, and common circumstances that do not qualify a student for a dependency override; (iii) explicitly include, in language understandable to a student enrolled at the institution, a statement that institutions of higher education are permitted to accept a range of documents to substantiate dependency override applications, including those documents specified by relevant federal law; and (iv) explicitly include, in language understandable to a student enrolled at the institution, the option to apply for a dependency override based on certain factors enumerated in the bill.

Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Limits the entitlement of voters with disabilities to vote outside the polls to those whose disability prevents them from entering the polling place. Expands the definition of disability for purposes of providing assistance outside of a polling place to voters with disabilities to include any permanent or temporary disability. Under current law, the disability is limited to a permanent or temporary physical disability.

Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate Exam Fee Elimination Fund and Program established. Establishes the Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate (AP/IB) Exam Fee Elimination Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, pursuant to which each local school board is entitled to an annual grant in a sum sufficient to cover all applicable fees associated with taking an AP or IB examination for any public high school student in the local school division who is eligible to receive free or reduced price lunch. The bill requires each local school board to annually notify the parents of each public high school student in the local school division who is eligible for free or reduced price lunch of the opportunity for the student to take an AP or IB examination at no cost. The bill requires the Board of Education to transfer any unspent and unobligated federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) state reserve funds to the AP/IB Exam Fee Elimination Fund.

Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption. Provides that property owned by a chartered organization and used solely for the purpose of supporting one or more scouting units holding a charter issued by the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States of America shall be exempt from state and local taxation.