TITLE: Virginia Commerce and Labor (S02) Committee Docket — 2020-08-26
DATE: 2020-08-26T00:00:00
SESSION: 2020 Special I (20202)
CHAMBER: Senate
SOURCE_API: https://lis.virginia.gov/Calendar/api/GetDocketsByIdAsync?docketID=15658
COMMITTEE_PAGE: https://lis.virginia.gov/committee-details?committeeId=23&sessionCode=20202

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  - Richard L. Saslaw (D) Chair

DOCKET / AGENDA:

[Senate Bills in Committee]
  999. SB5107 - Unemployment compensation; extends date VEC is required to establish, etc., short-time compensation.
       Patron(s): McPike
       Summary: Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensation for lost wages. The bill also extends the date by which the Virginia Employment Commission is required to establish and implement such short-time compensation program fro
  999. SB5115 - Broadband services; appropriates funds to DHCD to expand access in underserved and unserved areas.
       Patron(s): McDougle
       Summary: Broadband funding. Appropriates to the Department of Housing and Community Development a sum sufficient to expand access to broadband services in underserved and unserved areas of the Commonwealth.
  999. SB5118 - Emergency Debt Repayment Plan; every jurisdictional utility to develop.
       Patron(s): McClellan
       Summary: Public utilities; Emergency Debt Repayment Plan. Requires every utility providing electric, gas, or water service that is subject to regulation by the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to develop an Emergency Debt Repayment Plan (EDRP) for residential customers. The bill requires that an EDRP is designed to ensure that debt repayments accrued during a certain state of emergency or a certain service disconnection moratorium, in addition to the customer's regular utility bill are sustainable and affordable for the customer. The bill provides than EDRP will allow for an up to 12-month