Bill Text: VA SB5096 | 2020 | 1st Special Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Child care providers; PPE during certain declared states of emergency for essential workers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-11-09 - Left in Education [SB5096 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2020-SB5096-Prefiled.html
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SENATE BILL NO. 5096
Offered August 18, 2020
Prefiled August 18, 2020
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 17 of Title 63.2 a section numbered
63.2-1714.1, relating to child care providers; personal protective equipment
during certain declared states of emergency; essential workers; emergency.
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Patron-- Dunnavant
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Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 17 of Title 63.2 a section numbered 63.2-1714.1 as follows:
§63.2-1714.1. Declared state of emergency; essential workers.
In any case in which the Governor has declared a state of emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat pursuant to §44-146.17, persons operating or working or volunteering at a child day center or family day home shall be considered essential workers and shall be included in any group afforded priority with regard to access to personal protective equipment during such emergency.
2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.
