Summary: Health insurance credits for retired schooldivision employees. Requires school divisions to provide a healthinsurance credit of $4 per year of service to all retired membersof local school divisions with at least 15 years of total creditableservice. Currently, the $4 per year health insurance credit is providedonly to teachers, and non-teacher school division employees are eligiblefor a credit of $1.50 per year of service, capped at $45 per month,if the locality has elected such coverage. An enactment clause providesthat this measure does not apply to any local school division employeewho retired on disability prior to July 1, 2018, if this measurewould reduce the monthly credit currently payable to such former member. Eligible employees who retired prior to July 1, 2018, butwho did not receive a health insurance credit prior to that datewill only receive the $4 per year health insurance credit prospectively.

Summary: Workers' compensation; disease presumptions;correctional officers. Adds correctional officers to the listof public safety employees who are entitled to a presumption thathypertension and heart disease and certain infectious diseases areoccupational diseases compensable under the Virginia Workers' CompensationAct.

Summary: Health insurance for state and local government employees. Requires the health insurance plan for state and local government employees include a reference-based pricing component whereby a fixed maximum amount is paid for certain frequently performed nonemergency medical tests, procedures, and surgeries for which prices vary substantially and the quality of outcomes generally do not correlate with price.

Summary: State employee health insurance plan; coveragefor proton therapy. Requires the state employee health insuranceplan to include coverage for proton therapy. The measure providesthat the plan shall cover a physician-prescribed hypofractionatedproton therapy protocol to deliver a biological effective dose fora particular indication by paying the same aggregate amount as wouldbe paid for the delivery of the same biological effective dose withIMRT for the same indication, provided that the eligible patientis treated as part of a clinical trial or registry.

Summary: Virginia Retirement System; health insurancecredits for retired state employees. Increases annually the amountof the health insurance credit for retirees who rendered at least30 years of creditable service in the Virginia Retirement System.The bill increases the credit by the same percentage as any annualpost-retirement supplement that is calculated for employees hiredon or after July 1, 2010.

Summary: Workers' compensation; presumption of compensabilityfor certain diseases. Adds cancers of the colon, brain, or testesto the list of cancers that are presumed to be an occupational diseasecovered by the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act when firefightersand certain employees develop the cancer. The measure removes thecompensability requirement that the employee who develops cancer hadcontact with a toxic substance encountered in the line of duty.

Summary: State employee health plan; coverage for gendertransition services. Requires the state employee health planto provide coverage for gender transition services.

Summary: Virginia Retirement System; E-911 dispatchers.Adds E-911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible toreceive enhanced retirement benefits similar to those provided toState Police officers.

Summary: Parental and supplemental family leave benefits.Requires the Department of Human Resource Management (the Department) toimplement and administer a parental leave benefits program (the parental leaveprogram) for state employees. The parental leave program shall provide 12 weeksof paid leave for an employee who becomes the parent of a child either byadoption or by birth of a child. The bill requires employees to take parentalleave within one year of a child's birth or adoption and provides that if twoemployees are eligible for benefits for the same child, only one shall claimbenefits. The bill provides that if an employee is eligible for both parentalleave and maternity leave for the same child, parental leave covers the first12 weeks of leave; thereafter, if the employee provides notification to heremployer from her physician that she is unable to return to work, she mayreceive short-term disability benefits.The bill also requires the Department to implement andadminister a supplemental family leave benefits program (the supplementalfamily leave program). The supplemental family leave program shall provide 30days of paid leave for a state employee who takes leave in order to care for afamily member who has a serious health condition or because of a serious healthcondition that makes the state employee unable to perform his job functions.The bill directs that an employee seeking supplemental family leave mustprovide medical verification upon his employer's request and that the employeemay be required to obtain additional medical verifications if his employerdisagrees with the first medical verification.To be eligible for either program, an employee must be afull-time employee with at least one year of continuous state employment.