| SB283 | Pass | Removal of county courthouse; Augusta County; authorization by electorate. Allows Augusta County to hold a referendum on the courthouse removal in 2022, despite the 10-year waiting requirement, if plans are developed for (i) relocating to a newly con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB1063 | Pass | Public accommodations, employment, and housing; prohibited discrimination on the basis of religion; includes outward religious expression. Clarifies that "religion" as it relates to freedom of expression includes any outward expression of religious f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0799) |
| SB4 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any executive order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 45 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| HB614 | Veto | Requirement for appeals bond; indigent parties; appeal of unlawful detainer. Removes the requirement for an indigent defendant, as defined in the bill, to post an appeal bond in an unlawful detainer action appealed from the general district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB36 | Pass | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| HB517 | Pass | Chief Resilience Officer. Clarifies the designation and role of the Chief Resilience Officer by moving the position from under the responsibility of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| HB339 | Veto | Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications of members of boards and commissions. Removes the requirement in the City of Falls Church charter that board and commission members be qualified voters, replacing it with an age requirement of at least 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1138 | Pass | Loudoun County School Board; staggering of member terms; lot drawing; timeframe. Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Lou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) |
| HB4 | Pass | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| SB192 | Pass | Local health director; qualifications. Amends the qualification requirements for local health directors to provide that a person may be a local health director if he possess a master's or doctoral degree in the area of public health and has at least ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| SB474 | Veto | Requirement for appeals bond; indigent parties; appeal of unlawful detainer. Removes the requirement for an indigent defendant, as defined in the bill, to post an appeal bond in an unlawful detainer action appealed from the general district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB902 | Pass | Removal of county courthouse; Augusta County; authorization by electorate. Allows Augusta County to hold a referendum on the courthouse removal in 2022, despite the 10-year waiting requirement, if plans are developed for (i) relocating to a newly con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| SB508 | Veto | Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund. Shifts the administration of the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund from the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Virginia Soil and Water Cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB163 | Pass | Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortions or selective reductions unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| HB1136 | Pass | Commission on Updating Virginia Law to Reflect Federal Recognition of Virginia Tribes; established; report. Establishes the Commission on Updating Virginia Law to Reflect Federal Recognition of Virginia Tribes in the legislative branch of state gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| HB384 | Veto | Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects state and local government employees of the Commonwealth, defined in the bill, from being penalized by their employer for expressing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1323 | Pass | Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; initiation of treatment with and dispensing and administration of vaccines. Allows pharmacists and pharmacy technicians acting under the supervision of a pharmacist to initiate treatment with and dispense and adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB526 | Pass | Victims of human trafficking; eligibility for in-state tuition. Provides that a non-Virginia student who is currently present in the Commonwealth as a result of being a victim of human trafficking, defined in the bill, is eligible for in-state tuitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0795) |
| SB416 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment. Requires a state agency, whenever purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) for public use, to ensure such PPE comply with all applicable federal and international certi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| SB24 | Pass | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; expiration; report. Extends from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, the expiration date of the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program. The bill also requires the Virginia Housing Commission to submit an interim report no later...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| HB891 | Veto | Noncitizens of the United States; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia. Nonci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB717 | Pass | Unaccompanied homeless youths; services; consent. Provides that an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult for the purpose of consenting to housing, including emergency shelter, and establishes requirements for providers of housing, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0801) |
| SB182 | Veto | Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications of members of boards and commissions. Removes the requirement in the City of Falls Church charter that board and commission members be qualified voters, replacing it with an age requirement of at least 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB345 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles documents; blood type. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a method by which an applicant for a driver's license or identification card may indicate his blood type to be noted on his license or card for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB199 | Pass | Public auction of personal property to satisfy lien; advertisement requirement alternative contact. Removes the provisions regarding the content of and publishing requirements for an advertisement for a public auction of personal property for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| SB672 | Pass | Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; initiation of treatment with and dispensing and administration of vaccines. Allows pharmacists and pharmacy technicians acting under the supervision of a pharmacist to initiate treatment with and dispense and adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB158 | Pass | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any executive order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 45 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| SB575 | Pass | Department of General Services; state fleet managers to use total cost of ownership calculations; report. Requires the Department of General Services, beginning October 1, 2022, to procure a total cost of ownership calculator prior to procuring any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| SB46 | Pass | Certain emergency and quarantine orders; additional procedural requirements. Provides that, in any case in which the Governor has issued an emergency order that includes any measure that closes schools or businesses or restricts the movement of healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB385 | Pass | Claims; Bobbie James Morman, Jr.; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $1,247,973 to Bobbie James Morman, Jr., who was wrongly convicted of attempted malicious wounding and firearm-related charges. Claims; Bobbie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| HB1197 | Veto | Secretariat agency responsibilities; Department of Juvenile Justice. Directs the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a stakeholder work group to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
VOTE: (48-Y 52-N) |
| HB675 | Veto | Health insurance; tobacco surcharge. Eliminates the authority of a health carrier to vary its premium rates based on tobacco use. Under current law, a health carrier may charge premium rates up to 1.5 times higher for a tobacco user than for a nonuse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
VOTE: (48-Y 52-N) |
| HB573 | Veto | Statute of limitations; contracts for health care services. Provides that the statute of limitations for an action on any contract, written or unwritten, for health care services, including actions brought by the Commonwealth, is three years. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
VOTE: (48-Y 52-N) |
| SB591 | Enroll
Sine Die | Marijuana; shape prohibitions; definitions of marijuana and tetrahydrocannabinol. Modifies the definition of "marijuana" in several Code sections to (i) include any substance containing a total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that exceeds 0.3 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| HB802 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
VOTE: (48-Y 52-N) |
| HB820 | Veto | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; disparity study. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to conduct a disparity study every five years, next due no later than January 1, 2026. Department of Small Busines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
VOTE: (48-Y 52-N) |
| HB1272 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools and public school-based early childhood care and education programs; student instruction; masks. Requires, except in the case of the 10 unscheduled remote learning days otherwise permitted by law or in certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
| HB450 | Pass | Parking of vehicles; electric vehicle charging spots; civil penalties. Prohibits a person from parking a vehicle not capable of receiving an electric charge or not in the process of charging in a space clearly marked as reserved for charging electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| SB288 | Veto | Virginia taxable income; corporations; deductions; business interest. Increases from 20 percent to 30 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § 163(j) of the Internal R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| HB1298 | Veto | High school student-athletes; compensation for name, image, or likeness. Prohibits any high school student-athlete who participates in an athletic competition from entering into any contract to receive compensation in relation to such student's athle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB192 | Pass | Prescription of opioids; sunset. Repeals sunset provisions for the requirement that a prescriber registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program request information about a patient from the Program upon initiating a new course of treatment that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747) |
| SB595 | Pass | Nitrile Glove Manufacturing Training Program; established. Establishes the Nitrile Glove Manufacturing Training Program, a funding program of up to $4,601,000 for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, through the Virginia Talent Accelerator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB647 | Pass | Commissioner of Health; administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices, and vaccines during public health emergency; emergency. Allows the Commissioner of Health to authorize persons who are not authorized by law to administer or dispense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| HB766 | Pass | Enforcement of gaming laws; Gaming Enforcement Coordinator established. Establishes the Office of the Gaming Enforcement Coordinator in the Department of State Police and charges such Coordinator with coordinating local, state, and federal enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| SB401 | Pass | Enforcement of gaming laws; Gaming Enforcement Coordinator established. Establishes the Office of the Gaming Enforcement Coordinator in the Department of State Police and charges such Coordinator with coordinating local, state, and federal enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB593 | Pass | Custody and transportation of persons subject to emergency custody or temporary detention order; alternative custody; auxiliary police officers. Allows auxiliary police officers to provide transportation for a person subject to an emergency custody o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| HB1199 | Pass | Tobacco products tax; remote retail sales. Clarifies the provisions of the tobacco products tax on cigars and pipe tobacco sold by remote retail sellers, defined in the bill, to consumers in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that such remote retail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| HB1270 | Veto | SNAP benefits program; inmates of state or local correctional facilities. Directs the Department of Social Services (the Department) to convene a work group to analyze and develop a proposal to request a waiver from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
House sustained Governor's veto |
| HB307 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; estimated charges; exception for certain scholastic records. Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| HB1066 | Pass | Notice of probate; exception to notice. Removes the exception to the notice of probate under current law that allows such notice to not be given when assets passing under a will or in intestacy do not exceed $5,000. Notice of probate; exception to n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
