Summary: Feminine hygiene products; no cost to female prisoners or inmates. Directs the State Board of Corrections and the Director of the Department of Corrections to each adopt and implement a standard or procedure to ensure the provision of feminine hygiene products to female prisoners and inmates without charge.

Summary: Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a critically missing adult, defined as an adult whose whereabouts are unknown, who is believed to have been abducted, and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to his health and safety.

Summary: Virginia National Guard; state active duty pay. Provides that all members of the Virginia National Guard who arecalled into state active duty be paid an amount not less than thatprescribed for a member with the rank of E-6 who has over 18 yearsof service.

Summary: Restoration of firearms rights; report to State Police. Provides a mechanism for reporting to the Department of State Police when a circuit court restores a felon's right to possess, transport, and carry a firearm, ammunition for a firearm, or a stun weapon. The bill provides that if a court enters an order restoring a felon's right, the order shall contain the felon's name and date of birth and the clerk of the court shall certify and forward the restoration order to the Central Criminal Records Exchange (CCRE). The bill provides that the Department of State Police, upon receipt of the restoration order, shall enter the felon's name and description in the CCRE so that law-enforcement personnel accessing the CCRE will be aware of the order's existence. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2019.

Summary: Virginia State Police Electronic Summons SystemFund. Creates the Virginia State Police Electronic Summons SystemFund, which is funded by a $5 fee that the bill requires to be assessedas court costs in each criminal or traffic case in which the VirginiaState Police issued the summons, ticket, or citation; executed thewarrant; or made the arrest. The bill directs that the Fund be usedfor the purposes of funding software, hardware, and associated equipmentcosts for the implementation and maintenance of an electronic summonssystem. Under current law, localities may charge a fee of up to $5for each criminal or traffic case to be used for such purposes.

Summary: Parole Board; personal interviews of prisoners.Requires that at least two members of the Parole Board personally interview any prisoner eligible for parole who has served at least20 years of his sentence and has no record of institutional violationswithin the five years immediately preceding the Board's review.

Summary: Alternative treatment options for certain veterans; report. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to consider the efficacy of alternative treatments available for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder and report its findings and conclusions to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health. The bill defines "alternative treatment" as a therapeutic service that (i) is not part of the standard of medical care established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for treating traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder but has been shown by at least one scientific or medical peer-reviewed study to have some positive effect on traumatic brain injury or posttraumatic stress disorder and (ii) is provided at the direction and under the supervision of an individual licensed by the Board of Medicine, Nursing, Counseling, Psychology, or Social Work.

Summary: Nonresident concealed handgun permits; timeof issuance. Requires the Department of State Police (Department)to issue a concealed handgun permit to a nonresident within 45 daysof receipt of the nonresident's completed application unless it determinesthat he is disqualified. The bill provides that the Department shallcertify the nonresident's application as a de facto concealed handgunpermit, which is effective for a period of 90 days after issuance,if the Department has not issued the permit or determined that thenonresident is disqualified within that 45-day period.

Summary: Virginia Fire Services Board; powers and duties; modular training program for volunteer firefighters. Directs the Virginia Fire Services Board to develop a modular training program for volunteer firefighters for adoption by local volunteer fire departments that shall include (i) Firefighter I and Firefighter II certification pursuant to standards developed by the National Fire Protection Association and (ii) an online training program. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control. Increases the alcoholic beverage general license application fee from $65 to $195. The bill also increases the application fee for mixed beverage special event licenses from $15 to $45 and increases the state tax on wine shipper's licenses, beer shipper's licenses, and wine and beer shipper's licenses from $95 to $230. The bill establishes that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for (i) any person to sell wine to retailers or consumers without paying the wine excise tax or (ii) any retailer to purchase, receive, transport, store, or sell any wine on which such retailer has reason to know such tax has not been paid and may not be paid. The bill provides for a civil penalty for (a) each manufacturer or wholesaler who fails to make any return and pay the full amount of the wine excise tax or (b) each manufacturer or wholesaler who makes a false or fraudulent return, where willful intent exists to defraud the Commonwealth of any excise tax due on each liter of wine. Current law provides for these criminal and civil penalties with regard to failure to pay the excise tax imposed on beer and wine coolers but not for failure to pay the excise tax on wine. This bill is identical to SB 884.

Summary: First Chance Trust Fund and First Chance Program. Createsin the state treasury the First Chance Trust Fund (Trust Fund), consisting of(i) any appropriated funds, gifts, donations, grants, bequests, or other fundsreceived on its behalf; (ii) payments required to be withheld by the Departmentof Corrections on any public contract that exceeds $5,000,000 annually in anamount equal to one percent of the total annual value of such public contract;and (iii) any payments permitted to be withheld by any other agency of theCommonwealth on any public contract that exceeds $5,000,000 annually in anamount no greater than one percent of the total annual value of such publiccontract. The bill establishes, and requires the Board of Corrections toadminister, the First Chance Program (the Program) whereby moneys from theTrust Fund are utilized to award (a) a scholarship to attend a publicinstitution of higher education in the Commonwealth to any student who attendsa public high school that is located in a region of the Commonwealth that has ahigh school dropout rate, poverty rate, or incarceration rate that is higherthan the relevant average rate in the Commonwealth or (b) a grant to anyprivate, nonprofit social services organization that is located in a region ofthe Commonwealth that has a high school dropout rate, poverty rate, orincarceration rate that is higher than the relevant average rate in theCommonwealth. The bill requires the Board of Corrections to report annually tothe Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the House Committee onCourts of Justice, the Senate Committee on Courts of Justice, and the SenateCommittee on Finance on the revenues of and expenditures from the Trust Fund inthe prior fiscal year and the number, amount, type, and recipients ofscholarships and grants made pursuant to the Program in the prior fiscal year.

Summary: Department of State Police; establishment ofcold case searchable database. Provides that the Superintendentof State Police may establish and maintain a cold case searchableelectronic database including unsolved homicide, missing person,and unidentified person cases that shall be available to the publicthrough the Department's official website. The searchable databasemay include interactive elements consisting of (i) the type of case,(ii) the location of the crime, (iii) the investigating law-enforcementagency name, and (iv) the year the crime occurred.

Summary: Department of Emergency Management; waiver ofpermit fees for small businesses affected by an emergency or disaster.Provides for the waiver of permit fees charged by state agenciesand associated with the reopening or restoration of small businessesthat have been significantly affected by a disaster, emergency,local emergency, or a major disaster declared by the Governor or alocal governing body. The bill directs the Department of EmergencyManagement to develop a program for certifying such small businesses,and small businesses obtaining the certification from the Departmentare entitled to the waiver of certain fees associated with reopeningor restoring the operation of the business. The bill provides an option for localities to opt into the waiver of local permit feesfor certified small businesses by ordinance.

Summary: DNA analysis upon conviction of certain misdemeanors. Adds misdemeanor violations of §§ 18.2-57 (assault and battery) and 18.2-119 (trespass) to the list of offenses for which an adult convicted of such offense must have a sample of his blood, saliva, or tissue taken for DNA analysis. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Crime Commission. This bill is identical to SB 565.

Summary: Creating a statewide e-filing system for civil casefilings. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by law, beginning July1, 2019, no petition, pleading, motion, order, or decree filed in a civil casein a circuit court, including any agreement of the parties or transcripts,shall contain the social security number of any party, or of any minor child ofany party, or any identifying financial information of any party. The billfurther provides that, where such information is required by law, suchinformation shall be contained in a separate addendum file by the attorney orparty in such civil case. The bill further requires each circuit clerk toestablish and operate a system for electronic filing. Current law provides thatany such clerk may establish and operate such a system. The bill provides that,in any civil case filed on or after July 1, 2019, clerks of the circuit courtsshall maintain all nonconfidential documents in electronic form and make suchdocuments available through secure remote access and searchable by name andcase number across all circuit courts that use the Office of the ExecutiveSecretary's electronic imaging system. The bill directs the Executive Secretaryof the Supreme Court to administer a paid subscription service that providesaccess to all electronic records maintained by the clerks who use suchelectronic imaging system for civil cases filed on or after July 1, 2019. Thebill specifies that such subscription shall be on an annual basis, with anannual fee to be established by the Judicial Council of Virginia. The billprovides that any sums collected pursuant to such subscription shall bedeposited into the state treasury to the credit of the Courts Technology Fund.The bill directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to update itsdocument entitled "Security Standard for Restricted Remote Access toDocuments on Court-Controlled Websites" consistent with the provisions ofthe bill by July 1, 2019. The requirement that the Virginia InformationTechnologies Agency update such document becomes effective in due course; theremaining provisions of the bill become effective on July 1, 2019.

Summary: Application for a concealed handgun permit.Allows a Virginia resident or domiciliary to submit an applicationfor a new concealed handgun permit via mail. Currently, only personswho have previously been issued a concealed handgun permit may submitan application via mail.

Summary: Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act. Creates the Correctional Officer Procedural Guarantee Act to establish procedural guarantees for correctional officers when allegations are made against such officers involving matters that may lead to their dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer for punitive reasons. This bill is identical to SB 851.

Summary: Schedule I and Schedule II drugs. Adds MT-45 (1-cyclohexyl-4-(1,2-diphenylethyl)piperazine) to Schedule I of the Drug Control Act and Dronabinol [(-)-delta-9-trans tetrahydrocannabinol] in an oral solution in a drug product approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Schedule II of the Drug Control Act and removes naldemedine from Schedule II of the Drug Control Act.

Summary: Leave for volunteer members of Civil Air Patrol. Requires state and private employers to allow officers or employees who are volunteer members of the Civil Air Patrol to take leaves of absence from their respective duties without loss of seniority, accrued leave, benefits, or efficiency rating on all days during which such officer or employee is (i) engaged in training for emergency missions with the Civil Air Patrol, not to exceed 10 workdays per federal fiscal year, or (ii) responding to an emergency mission as a Civil Air Patrol volunteer, not to exceed 30 workdays per federal fiscal year. The bill requires any officer or employee requesting leave to provide certification that the officer or employee has been authorized by the United States Air Force, the Governor, or a department, division, agency, or political subdivision of the state to respond to or train for an emergency mission and verification from the Civil Air Patrol of the emergency need of the officer's or employee's volunteer service. The bill allows employers to treat such leaves of absence as unpaid leave but prohibits employers from requiring an officer or employee to exhaust any other leave to which he is entitled prior to such leaves of absence.