Military and Emergency Laws

Passed

P HB33

Military laws; leaves of absence for employees of the Commonwealth. Provides that whenever an employee returns from federally funded military duty and the required eight-hour rest period overlaps such employee's scheduled work shift, the employee must receive paid military leave to the extent of the overlap.
Patron - Tata

P HB628

Virginia Military Family Relief Fund; contribution of tax refund; report. Establishes the Virginia Military Family Relief Fund, a special nonreverting fund to assist Virginia members of the armed services who have been called to active duty and to assist their families with living expenses. The Fund will be administered by the Office of The Adjutant General. The Adjutant General will report annually to the Governor and the chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees. The bill also includes the Fund on the list of entities eligible to appear on the Virginia tax return for voluntary tax refund contributions.
Patron - Johnson

P HB922

Officers of militia; Fishburne Military School. Adds the officers of the Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia, to the list of those officers recognized as commissioned officers of the unorganized Virginia militia.
Patron - Landes

P HB1170

Local emergency management; emergency coordinators. Requires each locality to maintain an agency of emergency management and to appoint a coordinator of emergency management. Currently, the authority to establish such an agency and appoint a coordinator is discretionary.
Patron - Rapp

P HB1180

Powers of Governor during emergency; public safety employee hardship. Allows the Governor, in his discretion, to provide up to $2,500 per month for up to three months to a public safety employee responding to a natural or man-made disaster who has suffered an extreme personal or family hardship in the affected area. This bill incorporates HB 1402.
Patron - Carrico

P HB1265

Emergency services and disasters; constitutional rights. Provides that nothing in Chapter 3.2 of Title 44 relating to emergency services and disaster laws should be interpreted as allowing the Governor or any other governmental authority to limit the right to keep and bear arms pursuant to the Constitutions of Virginia and of the United States. These rights include the lawful possession, sale, and transfer of firearms. These rights are not extended to places designated as emergency shelters. This bill incorporates HB 1024.
Patron - Janis

Failed

F HB256

Pay of National Guard; active state duty. Requires that officers and enlisted members of the National Guard receive the same pay when called into active state or federal duty.
Patron - Cosgrove

F HB257

Virginia National Guard; retirement payments. Provides that any member of the Virginia National Guard who retires from the Virginia National Guard after serving at least 10 consecutive years in the Virginia National Guard immediately preceding retirement, and who has at least 20 years of creditable service with the United States Armed Forces, including National Guard service, reserve service, or active duty service, shall receive $100 per month for the same number of years that the member was in service in the Virginia National Guard.
Patron - Cosgrove

F HB639

Local emergency directors and coordinators; emergency response training. Requires local emergency directors and coordinators to be certified in emergency management, pursuant to guidelines and standards promulgated by the Department of Emergency Management.
Patron - Phillips

F HB1024

Emergency services and disasters; constitutional rights. Provides that nothing in Chapter 3.2 of Title 44 relating to emergency services and disaster laws should be interpreted as allowing the Governor or any other governmental authority to limit the right to keep and bear arms pursuant to the Constitutions of Virginia and of the United States. This bill was incorporated into HB 1265.
Patron - Hurt

F HB1271

Adjutant General; qualifications. Eliminates the requirement that the Adjutant General be required to have at least ten years' commissioned service in the Virginia National Guard in at least field grade in order to be eligible for the position.
Patron - Janis

F HB1402

Carried Over

C HB1348

Virginia Search and Rescue Training and Response Program. Creates the Virginia Search and Rescue Training and Response Program within the Department of Emergency Management to coordinate search and rescue training and response in the Commonwealth.
Patron - Bell

C SB377

Reservists called to active duty; health insurance. Requires the Commonwealth and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth to continue to provide health insurance benefits to any employee who is a reservist or member of the National Guard and is called to active duty, as well as to any dependents covered under the employee's health insurance plan prior to the employee's being called to duty. In addition, if such employee is killed while on active duty, the employee's dependents shall be allowed to continue the health insurance benefits for a period of 12 months after the employee's death.
Patron - McDougle

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