Use of handheld personal communications device; commercial dispatch. Exempts from the prohibition on holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle the use of such a device for commercial dispatch purposes, as defined in the bill.

Health insurance credits; retired state employees. Increases, beginning July 1, 2024, from $4 per year of creditable service to $4.25 per year of creditable service the amount of each monthly health insurance credit provided by the Commonwealth for the cost of health insurance coverage for any retired state employee. Health insurance credits; retired state employees. Increases, beginning July 1, 2024, from $4 per year of creditable service to $4.25 per year of creditable service the amount of each monthly health insurance credit provided by the Commonwealth for the cost of health insurance coverage for any retired state employee.

Study; Department of Energy; local governments; purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their constituents. In conducting its study, the Department shall consider existing ways for local governments to purchase clean energy and promote access to clean energy for their constituents, evaluate barriers and develop recommendations relating to reducing such barriers for local governments to purchase clean energy and to encouraging the purchase of and access to clean energy by local governments and their constituents, and consult with relevant stakeholders as needed.

Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; treatment of Alzheimer's disease; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission (the ADRD Commission) to study the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The resolution directs the Joint Commission and the ADRD Commission to analyze the following as they relate to the treatment of and medication for patients with Alzheimer's disease: (i) continuing medical education requirements for physicians, (ii) public health education for patients and caregivers, (iii) Commonwealth Alzheimer's disease plans and the inclusion of the latest treatment and medication in such plans, (iv) access to screening and diagnostic tools and coverage of such tools by insurance plans, (v) access to therapeutics and coverage of such therapeutics by insurance plans, and (vi) Medicaid coverage for approved drugs. The resolution requires the Joint Commission and the ADRD Commission to complete their meetings by November 30, 2023, and submit their findings and recommendations no later than the first day of the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Health insurance; ensuring fairness in cost-sharing. Amends provisions related to rebates provided by carriers and health benefit plans to health plan enrollees by defining defined cost-sharing, price protection rebates, and pharmacy benefits management services. The bill requires that an enrollee's defined cost-sharing for each prescription drug shall be calculated at the point of sale based on a price that is reduced by an amount equal to at least 80 percent of all rebates received or expected to be received in connection with the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug.

Commending Colonel Anthony Steven Pike.

Behavioral Health Commission; funding; sunset. Repeals provisions that provided temporary alternative funding for and contingent expiration of the Behavioral Health Commission in the event that the Commission was not funded in the general appropriation act.

Motion for the disclosure of expunged records in a civil case. Provides that in an action for damages against a locality or a law-enforcement officer arising out of or relating to charges where a petition for the expungement of police and court records for such charges is pending or where the records have been expunged, any party to such action may file a motion in the court in which the action is pending, or in the court where the petition for the expungement was or is pending, for the release of the expunged records for use in the civil litigation, and, upon motion and for good cause shown, such police and court records shall be ordered to be released and the relevant penalties relating to disclosure of such expunged records shall not apply. Motion for the disclosure of expunged records in a civil case. Provides that in an action for damages against a locality or a law-enforcement officer arising out of or relating to charges where a petition for the expungement of police and court records for such charges is pending or where the records have been expunged, any party to such action may file a motion in the court in which the action is pending, or in the court where the petition for the expungement was or is pending, for the release of the expunged records for use in the civil litigation, and, upon motion and for good cause shown, such police and court records shall be ordered to be released and the relevant penalties relating to disclosure of such expunged records shall not apply.

Housing authorities; common household pets. Requires each housing authority to permit tenants to own or maintain one or more common household pets, as defined in the bill, subject to applicable state and federal law and regulations and certain reasonable conditions outlined in the bill. As defined, "common household pet" does not include an assistance animal or any animal prohibited by a local ordinance regulating the keeping of animals or fowl, other than dogs or cats, within a certain distance of residences or other buildings or structures. "Reasonable condition," as defined in the bill, does not include a prohibition on a particular breed or the weight of a common household pet. Housing authorities; common household pets. Requires each housing authority to permit tenants to own or maintain one or more common household pets, as defined in the bill, subject to applicable state and federal law and regulations and certain reasonable conditions outlined in the bill. As defined, "common household pet" does not include an assistance animal or any animal prohibited by a local ordinance regulating the keeping of animals or fowl, other than dogs or cats, within a certain distance of residences or other buildings or structures. "Reasonable condition," as defined in the bill, does not include a prohibition on a particular breed or the weight of a common household pet.

Virginia Cannabis Incubator Project. Establishes a framework for the creation of the Virginia Cannabis Incubator Project in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory structure for such Incubator Project to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill has a delayed effective date pending legalization of the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the Commonwealth.

Public institutions of higher education; duties of governing boards; student enrollment growth. Directs the governing board of each public institution of higher education to adopt policies providing that the percentage of students enrolled at such public institution of higher education must be capped at a two percent increase over a biennium.

Board of Medicine; continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. Requires the Board of Medicine to adopt and implement policies that require each practitioner licensed by the Board who has direct contact with persons who are or may become pregnant to complete two hours of continuing education related to implicit bias, defined in the bill, and cultural competency in health care at least once every other license renewal cycle.

Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Program; eligibility; high-demand fields. Defines, for the purpose of determining the eligibility for financial assistance under the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Program of an individual enrolled in a certain program that leads to an occupation in a high-demand field, the term "high-demand field" as (i) a discipline or field in which there is a shortage of skilled workers to fill current and anticipated additional job vacancies, (ii) the K-12 teaching field, including teaching in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, or (iii) the special education teaching field. Under current law, the definition of "high-demand field" is limited to a discipline or field in which there is a shortage of skilled workers to fill current and anticipated additional job vacancies.

Study; State Corporation Commission; Outage Data Initiative Nationwide; report. Requests the State Corporation Commission to convene a stakeholder workgroup and study the Commonwealth's participation in the Outage Data Initiative Nationwide.

Department of Labor and Industry; Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; notice of disciplinary action; method of delivery to allow for confirmation of delivery. Authorizes the use of commercial delivery services with signed and dated acknowledgment of delivery by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry when providing notice to an employer of any proposed penalty for a violation of a safety or health provision or of the employer's failure to abate a violation of a safety or health provision. Under current law, the Commissioner is authorized to provide such required notices only through certified mail or personal service. The bill also requires the regulatory boards of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation to send to any regulant subject to a disciplinary action notice in a manner that allows for confirmation of delivery. The bill removes the current requirement that such notice be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, and retains the provision allowing delivery through electronic means, if agreed to by the parties.