Legislative Update for VA Assn of People Supporting Employment First
Friday March 7, 2025

Bill	Patron	Title	Synopsis	Status
HB 2394	Mark D. Sickles	Medicaid; Long-term Services And Supports, Presumptive Eligibility, Sunset.	Department of Medical Assistance Services; Medicaid; long-term services and supports; presumptive eligibility; sunset. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to provide presumptive eligibility for Medicaid, including long-term services and supports where appropriate, to individuals who meet certain criteria. The provision of presumptive eligibility is conditional on the Department obtaining all necessary approvals and federal financial participation. The bill will sunset on January 1, 2026 if such approval and federal financial participation is not obtained.	H Left in Appropriations (2/4)
HB 2418	Phillip A. Scott; Joshua G. Cole; Robert D. Orrock, Sr.	Certain Applicants For Employment In Public Schools; Certain Official Documentation Required.	Certain applicants for employment in public schools; certain official documentation required. Directs each school board to require on its application for employment for any individual whose position will involve the provision of direct instruction or support to elementary school students or students with disabilities, whether on a full-time or part-time or on a permanent or temporary basis, official documentation of the individual's criminal, educational, and employment history for at least the immediately preceding three years.	H Left in Education (2/4)
SB 1013	Jennifer B. Boysko	Neurocognitive Disorder, Etc.; Affirmative Defense To Prosecution.	Affirmative defense or reduced penalty for a neurocognitive disorder or intellectual or developmental disability. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery against certain specified persons for which the enhanced Class 6 felony and six-month mandatory minimum apply if such individual proves, by a preponderance of the evidence, that at the time of the assault or assault and battery (i) the individual's behaviors were a result of (a) mental illness or (b) a neurocognitive disorder, including dementia, or and intellectual disability or a developmental disability such as autism spectrum disorder, as defined in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, or (ii) the individual met the criteria for issuance of an emergency custody order. The bill provides that if such individual does not prove that his behaviors were a result of his mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disability, or neurocognitive disorder but the evidence establishes that his mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disability, or neurocognitive disorder otherwise contributed to his behaviors, the finder of fact may find the accused guilty of a misdemeanor assault or assault and battery. The bill also provides that such affirmative defense shall not be construed to allow an affirmative defense for voluntary intoxication.	S House substitute agreed to by Senate (23-Y 16-N) (2/20)