| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. Allows a permit applicant to purchase wetland and stream mitigation credits from the locality in which the site is located if no credits are available to purchase in the primary service area or n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB750 | Intro
Sine Die | Behavioral Health Hospital Authority; established. Creates the Behavioral Health Hospital Authority (the Authority) as an independent political subdivision of the Commonwealth, to control the delivery, financing, utilization, and health outcomes of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Increases, for the purposes of determining benefits provided under the Judicial Retirement System, the retirement multiplier from 1 percent to 1.7 percent. The increase wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Workplace violence protective orders. Provides that an employer may petition the court for a preliminary protective order or a protective order to protect the health and safety of its employees. The bill provides that the venue for a workplace violen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; standards for the maintenance and operations, renovation, and new construction of public elementary and secondary school buildings. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to make recommendations to the General Assembly for am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Commission. Provides that failure of an oyster lease holder to respond to a wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission request regarding an application within 30 days of receipt of such r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | State of good repair funds. Makes bridges with a general condition rating of no greater than five eligible for state of good repair funding. Under current law, structurally deficient bridges and highways with deficient pavement conditions are eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB560 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; standard deduction. Increases the standard deduction, starting with taxable year 2022, from $4,500 to $9,000 for single filers and from $9,000 to $18,000 for married filers (one-half of such amount in the case of a married individual fili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitive compensation for certain positions in public elementary and secondary schools. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers and all other individuals employed in Standards of Quality-funded positions be compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB472 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; standard deduction. Increases the standard deduction, starting with taxable year 2022, from $4,500 to $9,000 for single filers and from $9,000 to $18,000 for married filers (one-half of such amount in the case of a married individual fili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board for the purpose of protecting state residents, state and local governments, commercial health plans, heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Local regulation of smoking; outdoor parks, recreation facilities, and playgrounds. Allows localities to designate smoking areas within 100 feet of sports fields, recreation centers, and playgrounds in outdoor parks. The bill requires signs regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Office; creation of a Secretary of Disability Services Coordination. Creates the position of Secretary of Disability Services Coordination to be appointed by the Governor. The bill provides for the responsibilities of the Secretary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2022 through 2026 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody; extension; medical testing, observation, or treatment. Provides that a magistrate may, upon the sworn petition of the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or his designee, issue an order extending an emergen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Services; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; data collection. Allows the Department of Veterans Services (the Department) to contract with any hospital in the Commonwealth that furnishes the treatment option of hyperbaric oxygen therap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Pet shops; sale of unneutered or unspayed dogs and cats prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a pet shop from selling a dog or cat unless it has first been spayed or neutered. A violation is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on and after the first day of a special session of the General Assembly through adjournment sine die of that session. Currently, campaign fundraising is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. Establishes the Virginia Museum of Transportation as a public entity and educational institution of the Commonwealth. Under the bill, the Museum is governed by a 15-member board of trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Genetic information privacy; civil penalty. Establishes requirements for direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, including requirements related to information to be provided to consumers, consent requirements, requirements related to security o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Admissibility of statements of a deceased or incompetent party. Repeals the "dead man's statute," which provides that no judgment shall be entered against a person incapable of testifying based upon the uncorroborated testimony of the adverse party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1362 | Engross
Sine Die | Short-term rentals; localities' ability to restrict. Clarifies that short-term rentals may be operated in any locality in the absence of an ordinance pursuant to the locality's general land use and zoning authority restricting short-term rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SJR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); K-12 funding. Provides that for any year in which there is a surplus, the budget shall include an appropriation of five percent of such surplus for the operational costs of local school divisions. The resol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Parole Board; membership; records; report. Increases from five to 11 the number of members to be appointed to the Virginia Parole Board (the Board). The bill requires the Board to (i) include in its monthly report regarding actions taken by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB847 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Resiliency Authority; established. Establishes the Virginia Resiliency Authority (the Authority) as a body politic and corporate, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the Authority shall be governed by a 17-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers and retired law-enforcement officers to the prohibition of carry...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulating video gaming terminals; penalties. Authorizes and specifies the licensing requirements for the manufacture, distribution, operation, servicing, hosting, and playing of video gaming terminals (VGTs). The bill provides that VGTs are regulate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2022 through 2026 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
