| HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Gun Violence Survivor Assistance Fund and Grant Program. Establishes the Gun Violence Survivor Assistance Fund and Grant Program, to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of providing grants to gun violence su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Tabled in Public Safety (12-Y 10-N) |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Custody and visitation; grandparents; mediation. Requires any case in which a grandparent petitions the court for custody or visitation of a minor grandchild to be referred by the court to mediation. The bill requires the petitioning party to pay the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Food donations; labeling; liability. Exempts individuals and entities that donate food and charitable organizations that accept food donations from criminal and civil liability for donating or receiving food past its best-by date or other non-safety ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) |
| 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] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent. Removes the requirement that a tenant, if in possession of a dwelling unit, must pay for the court to hold the amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; parental notification of certain threats, behavior, and unlawful acts. Requires, within four hours of receiving notification of (i) a preliminary determination by the threat assessment team that a student poses a threat of violence or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Environmental Quality, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 60 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Public School Trades Incentive Fund (the Fund) and the Public School Trades Incentive Program (the Program) for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; inventory Department of Environmental Quality; inventory of stormwater systems in the Commonwealth; impact of flooding; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality, in cooperation with the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) |
| HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; loss of benefits for certain felony convictions. Provides that a law-enforcement officer shall not lose his benefits in any retirement system administered by the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System upon being convicted of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken from docket by Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Health and Human Resources; plan to consolidate state agency prescription drug purchasing and reimbursement programs; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop a plan to consolidate state agency prescription ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Human Resource Management; employee health insurance; pharmacy benefits; reverse auction process. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to utilize a reverse auction process to award pharmacy benefit manager contracts for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken from docket by Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB770 | Intro
Sine Die | Places of confinement for juveniles. Provides that there shall be a presumption prohibiting the incarceration of a juvenile offender, who has been convicted and sentenced as an adult in circuit court, in an adult correctional facility prior to his or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | K-12 funding. Provides that for any year in which there is a surplus, the Governor shall include in his proposed budget an appropriation of five percent of such surplus for the operational costs of local school divisions. The bill provides for an equ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| HB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Agribusiness. Clarifies that existing agribusiness in the Commonwealth includes farmers markets and roadside farm markets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (19-Y 0-N) |
| SB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; religious exemptions. Provides that the Board of Housing and Community Development shall have the power to grant religious exemptions from the Uniform Statewide Building Code if certain findings are made by the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; task bank for performance-based assessments. Requires the Department of Education to develop a task bank for performance-based assessments that is built using vetted tasks that have been developed by practitioners and aligns ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N) |
| 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] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody order; duration. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may transfer custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order to a facility or location that has been authorized by the Department of Behavioral Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; unexpended local funds; capital projects. Permits any school board to finance capital projects with any funds appropriated to it by the local governing body that are unexpended by the school board in any year. The bill is a recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Housing and Community Development; statewide housing choice voucher program. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and implement a statewide housing choice voucher program to assist low-income Virginian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N) |
| HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; school boards; codes of student conduct; contents. Requires the Board of Education's guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct to include a requirement that any code of student conduct is enforced and any student ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; law-enforcement officers; death before retirement. Provides that when a member of the State Police Officers' Retirement System or the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System or a local law-enforcement officer who is eligible for similar be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Stricken from docket by Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Division of marital property; military retainer pay. Provides that, for the purposes of dividing marital property, military retainer pay shall be classified as separate property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 3-N) |
| 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] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbying; local government actions; notice and fee to clerk of governing body. Requires any individual who is compensated to influence or attempt to influence a local government action through oral or written communication with a local government off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB521 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund. Allows funds in the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund to be paid to entities outlined in local shelter plans to install, maintain, or repair infrastructure for backup energy generation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| 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] | 2022-02-09
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; assessing individual student growth. Requires the Department of Education to create or request proposals for a system for value-added modeling to assess growth of students in public schools. The bill requires each school boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Regulatory Innovation; Virginia Regulatory Sandbox Program; created. Creates the Department of Regulatory Innovation to oversee the Virginia Regulatory Sandbox Program, also created by the bill, which allows an individual or business to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana criminal history information; disclosure to state and local governments by job applicants. Allows the Commonwealth or a locality to require a job applicant or other applicant who is seeking a license, permit, registration, or other governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; comprehensive review of labor statistics categories; report. Directs the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board (the Board) to perform a comprehensive review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; lead-safe rental housing. Provides that the local governing body of a locality may adopt an ordinance that requires the inspection and certification of a residential rental dwelling unit built prior to 1986 for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 30 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of parental rights; murder of child. Requires the court to terminate the parental rights of a parent upon finding, based upon clear and convincing evidence, that termination of parental rights is in the best interests of the child and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; standard deduction. Increases the standard deduction for taxable years 2022 through 2025 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 fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; regulations; public notice and economic impact; prohibition on certain regulations. Requires that an agency prepare a detailed notice of intended regulatory action for any regulation that it plans to promulgate. The bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House General Laws 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] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; powers and duties of executive branch agencies; regulatory compliance officer. Provides that each executive branch agency in the Commonwealth authorized to promulgate regulations shall designate one person to serve as the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Water quality funds; localities in fiscal stress. Directs that, to the maximum extent practicable, at least 25 percent of the grant agreements entered into by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, at least 25 percent by the Department of Env...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Increases the aggregate annual cap on the Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits from $25 million to $50 million, increases the value of the credit from 65 percent to 80 percent, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| HB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Opioid Abatement Authority and Fund; board of directors; allocation of funds. Increases from 11 to 15 the number of members of the board of directors of the Opioid Abatement Authority by increasing from one to five the representatives of the addictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1220 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to unionize. Repeals the provisions of the Code of Virginia that, among other things, prohibit any agreement or combination between an employer and a labor union or labor organization whereby (i) nonmembers of the union or organization are deni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Stricken from docket by Rules (18-Y 0-N) |
| HB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Online Marketplace Consumer Protection Act; high-volume third-party sellers in an online marketplace; civil penalty. Establishes requirements for high-volume third-party sellers, defined in the bill as participants in an online marketplace that have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; motion picture production tax credit. Removes the sunset for the motion picture production tax credit, which currently is set to expire after taxable year 2026. The bill increases the aggregate limit on credits from $6.5 million to $15 mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
