| SB47 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; housing opportunity tax credits. Removes the $15 million credit cap imposed on the Virginia Housing Opportunity Tax Credit and allows taxpayers to receive a state-level credit in an amount substantially similar to the amount of federal cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB451 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides a state sales and use tax exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill would also ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB440 | Engross
Sine Die | Unlawful hazing; penalty. Provides immunity for arrest and prosecution for hazing and involuntary manslaughter if a person in good faith seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing or renders e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB598 | Engross
Sine Die | College partnership laboratory schools; application and establishment. Permits any public institution of higher education and any nonprofit private institution of higher education that is eligible for the Tuition Assistance Grant Program to establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Conveyances of property; acceptance by clerk's office for recordation. Provides that there is a presumption for state and local governmental agency and office purposes that title to property transfers to the grantee upon acceptance of a deed conveyin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB487 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Establishes the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention (the Center) within the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB528 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; military benefits subtraction. Provides an individual income tax subtraction for up to $5,000 of military benefits in taxable year 2022, up to $10,000 in taxable year 2023, up to $15,000 in taxable year 2024, and up to $20,000 in taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB371 | Engross
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; membership; appointment of Commissioner of Elections. Exempts the Department of Elections from provisions allowing the Governor to appoint a chief deputy and a confidential assistant for policy or administration. The bill ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Requires each school board to provide at least four specialized student support positions per 1,000 students. Under current law, each school board is required to provide at least three such positions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the Virginia Football Stadium Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a football stadium and related facilities. The Authority is authorized to hire independent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB324 | Engross
Sine Die | Public agencies; privacy of personal information; penalty. Provides that public agencies shall not request personal information, defined in the bill, from (i) any individual or any entity organized under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code or (ii)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax refunds for individuals or married persons filing a joint return. Provides an income tax refund for individuals and for married persons filing a joint return for taxable year 2021 in an amount specifically set forth in the general appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB652 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; application requirements; last four digits of social security number. Requires an applicant for an absentee ballot to provide on the application the last four digits of his social security number, except when completing the applicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB273 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; verification by social security number or unique identifier in lieu of witness signature. Requires the State Board of Elections to promulgate regulations for providing a unique identifier to any qualified voter who lacks a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB471 | Engross
Sine Die | Literary Fund; loans; application process; maximum loan amounts; rates of interest; closing costs; waiting lists. Requires the Board of Education (the Board) to establish an annual open application process for Literary Fund loans to finance the const...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB473 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Construction Fund and Program; Gaming Proceeds Fund revenues. Establishes the School Construction Fund as a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury and requires the Department of Education to establish the Scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB38 | Engross
Sine Die | Capitol Square Preservation Council; powers and duties; review and approval of plans for changes to artifacts contained within the Capitol Building. Grants the Capitol Square Preservation Council the authority to review and approve all plans or propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12
Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| SB35 | Engross
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan approval. Allows a planning commission to extend the 60-day period during which it makes a recommendation to the governing body on a comprehensive plan amendment if an applicant agrees to such extension. The bill also allows the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB58 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Portsmouth; city council; noninterference. Provides that any member of the Portsmouth City Council who violates certain charter provisions related to noninterference in appointments or removals of officers and employees of the city, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB574 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care; background checks. Allows applicants for employment and applicants to serve as volunteers to work in certain child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems pending the results of a full background check, provided that (i) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB523 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Portsmouth; recall of elective officers. Makes various changes to the City of Portsmouth's process for recall of an elective officer, including (i) applying provisions to an officer who has been appointed to fill an elective office, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB251 | Engross
Sine Die | Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; pedestrian and bicyclist projects. Directs the Department of Transportation to convene a work group, which includes certain specified parties, to assess and identify projected pedestrian, bicycling, and tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB226 | Engross
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; notice to employees. Requires each employer subject to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act to provide notice to covered employees of the employees' right to dispute a claim through the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SJR5 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second reference); marriage; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB457 | Engross
Sine Die | Breeding dogs for certain research prohibited. Prohibits for two years a person who has received a particular citation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on or after July 1, 2023, from breeding or raising a dog for the purpose of selling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB137 | Engross
Sine Die | Sentencing guidelines; written explanation; appeal. Requires that the written explanation the court files with the record of a case when departing from the sentencing guidelines adequately explains the sentence imposed to promote fair sentencing. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB481 | Engross
Sine Die | School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds; school maintenance, renovation, and construction. Encourages each local governing body and local school board to enter into a collaborative agreement to set aside in a separate fund an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB488 | Engross
Sine Die | Transit Transition Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Transit Transition Fund and Program, administered by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, to provide grants to state, regional, and local public entities to support the tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; amend waivers providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities; greater financial flexibility for certain services; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; restoration of political rights upon release from incarceration; certain adjudications. Provides that any person who is convicted of a felony and sentenced to a period of incarceration for such felony conviction is not entitled to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB388 | Engross
Sine Die | County manager plan of government; independent policing auditor. Allows the governing body of any county with the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to appoint an independent policing auditor. The independent policing auditor shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB718 | Engross
Sine Die | Revocation of driver's licenses; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a conviction that resulted from a final order being entered by a court after the successful completion of a Veterans Treatment Court Program, behavioral health docket, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, or mental illness; penalties. Provides that any person charged with a simple assault and battery offense who has been diagnosed by a psychiatrist or clinic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB557 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); marriage; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2022, election to approve or reject an amendment that would repeal the constituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB413 | Engross
Sine Die | Persons charged with first offense drug possession; probation. Requires a court to defer proceedings and place a defendant on probation if such defendant is charged with possession of a controlled substance and qualifies under the first offender stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR11 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care to study eating disorders in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study eating disorders in the Commonwealth. In conducting its study, the Joint Commission on Health Care shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR27 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to, by November 30, 2023, (i) review general operations of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, including (a) procedures an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Rules Committee |
| SB564 | Engross
Sine Die | Sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred and dismissed disposition or conviction. Eliminates the lifetime cap on the number of sealing petitions that may be filed. The bill reduces from seven years to three years for a misdemeanor offense and from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB664 | Engross
Sine Die | Minor victims of sex trafficking; services. Provides that a minor engaged in prostitution or keeping, residing in, or frequenting a bawdy place shall not be proceeded upon as delinquent and shall be referred to the local department of social services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB352 | Engross
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB714 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; voluntary mental health check-in option as part of the comprehensive crisis system; report. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to implement a voluntary me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB492 | Engross
Sine Die | Snare traps; prohibition. Prohibits the use of snare traps to hunt or kill game animals east of Interstate 95 during deer hunting season. Snare traps; prohibition. Prohibits the use of snare traps to hunt or kill game animals east of Interstate 95 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB21 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2022, general election to approve or reject an amendment that would provide for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB98 | Engross
Sine Die | Promise to appear after the issuance of a summons. Provides that if any person refuses to give a written promise to appear, the arresting officer shall give such person notice of the time and place of the hearing, note such person's refusal to give h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB138 | Engross
Sine Die | Discovery in criminal cases; copies of discovery for the accused. Provides that for any discovery materials or evidence that the accused is permitted to inspect and review, the accused may request the Commonwealth to copy or photograph such discovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB134 | Engross
Sine Die | Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; Department of Juvenile Justice; extending jurisdiction in delinquency matters to persons 18 years of age or older but less than 21 years of age. Raises the maximum age for delinquency matters in juveni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; Statewide Learning Management System established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Statewide Learning Management System (VaLMS). The VaLMS shall be available to each public school in the Commonwealth. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB641 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board established. Establishes the Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB105 | Engross
Sine Die | Chapters 45 and 51 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I; retroactive and prospective effect. Provides that the provisions of Chapters 45 and 51 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I, shall be given retroactive and prospecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
