CENSUS COUNTS:
Stipulated that Bureau of Census actual enumeration population counts will be used for determination of Virginia redistricting instead of population counts that are statistically modified to offset traditionally undercounted and overcounted population segments.
EDUCATION:
- SOL's-required a timetable for genuine end-of-year testing; established prosecution procedures for receiving, copying, selling or sharing exams or questions by unauthorized persons; carried over until 2001 a measure to eliminate tests being used as sole basis for grade promotion.
- Allowed local school divisions to require mandatory drug testing of a student found guilty of possessing or being under the influence of drugs on school property.
- Required a minute of silence at the beginning of each school day.
- Required that a student be appointed by each college/university to all state Boards of Visitors as a non-voting advisory member.
ELECTIONS:
- Required voters to present ID at polling places before being allowed to vote.
- Required that candidate political affiliation be identified on Federal, statewide and legislative ballots.
- Allowed restoration of voting rights through court petition to nonviolent felons who have served their sentence plus five years.
ENVIRONMENT:
Required a permit for conducting certain activities in nontidal wetlands. Permits will be conditioned upon compensatory mitigation for adverse impacts to wetlands, with the purpose to achieve no net loss of wetlands. |
HEALTH:
- Established a procedure for nurse practitioners to prescribe certain categories of medication.
- Established a timetable for a transition period in considering or requiring the elimination of the Certificate of Public Need process.
- Failed to pass provision enabling patient to chose their own physician.
- Failed to pass measure holding HMO liable for patient injury or death for withholding or denying physician recommended treatment.
MISC:
- Created a Freedom of Information "Sunshine Office" to oversee FOI requests, complaints & information.
- Banned children under 16 from riding in the bed of a pick-up truck.
- Initiated the process for electronic commercial law in Virginia through Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)
STATE EMPLOYEES:
- SALARY-3.25% raise for state employees; 2.4% increase for teachers; average 3.8% (4.4% average for Virginia Tech professors) for college/university level teachers-all become effective Nov. 25, 2000.
- Established an additional state holiday by splitting Rev. Martin Luther King Holiday and Lee/Jackson Day-results in four-day weekend in January.
- Increased top level of unemployment compensation by 12%.
- Strengthened and expanded powers of the Department of Employee Dispute Resolution (formerly the Dept. of Employee Relations) and increased services for employee filing grievances.
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