| HB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Practitioners of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, and podiatric medicine; requirements. Increases the duration of postgraduate training required issuance of a license to practice medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatric medicine from 12 mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone systems within correctional facilities. Provides that no records of communications made by inmates from telephone systems within correctional facilities shall be disclosed without a search warrant, except upon the request of an inmate for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Creation of Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office). The bill enumerates the duties and powers of the Office, which include (i) providing information, as appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; agreements to establish opportunity classrooms. Requires each school board to enter into an agreement, upon request, with a public elementary or secondary school teacher or a group of such teachers in a local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HJR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee; emergence and integration of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in the economy of the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a 20-member, two-year joint subcommittee to identify research and economic development opportunit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply to the school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care providers; definition. Amends the definition of "health care provider" to include home care organizations and hospice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; release of person before expiration of order. Provides that no person who is the subject of an order for involuntary commitment shall be released from a state hospital or licensed hospital and that no community services board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office. Directs the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services to establish a Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office within the Department to (i) assist members of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric cooperatives; board of directors; access to meetings; required disclosures. Requires that each Virginia electric cooperative hold direct elections for its board of directors, either in person or by mail, or by electronic communication means ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; housing opportunity tax credits. Provides Income tax; housing opportunity tax credits. Provides that for award cycles, defined in the bill as the 12-month period during which the Virginia Housing and Development Authority (the Authority) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Modification of sentence for marijuana-related offenses. Creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony marijuana-related offenses committed prior to July 1, 2021, who remain incarcerated or on community supervision on July 1, 2022, m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment insurance; Resiliency Plan. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission, as part of its biennial strategic plan submitted to the Department of Planning and Budget, to develop and maintain an unemployment insurance Resiliency Plan that de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HJR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; effects of gun violence on communities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the social, physical, emotional, and economic effects of gun violence on communities across the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Procurement of dogs and cats for research. Prohibits any state entity, including a public institution of higher education, from procuring dogs or cats for research purposes from a person or entity that has received certain citations pursuant to the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Wetland and stream mitigation credits; dam removal credits. Provides the Department of Environmental Quality the authority to allow applicants for permits with stream mitigation requirements to satisfy all or part of the requirements through dam remo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal refuse energy and reclamation tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable individual and corporate income tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 equal to $4 per ton of qualified coal refuse used to generate electricity at an eligible facility, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | Minor victims of sex trafficking; arrest and prosecution; services. Provides that no minor shall be subject to arrest, delinquency charges, or prosecution for (i) a status offense, (ii) an act that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1100 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for full-time sworn members of the Department of Motor Vehicles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Victims of human trafficking; affirmative defense; writ of vacatur. Expands the definition of qualifying offense for the purposes of the issuance of a writ of vacatur for victims of commercial sex trafficking and the affirmative defense available to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; authority for localities to use cooperative procurement. Allows a public body to participate in cooperative procurement for construction contracts purchased by localities if the contract is valued at no greater than $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program (the Program) to address student hunger at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; local offices; reapportionment and redistricting; effect of certain changes. Requires in certain localities that the passage of an ordinance providing for the election of an additional member of the governing body on an at-large basis must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Public health emergency; emergency orders and regulations; limitations. Provides that any emergency order or regulation adopted by the Board of Health shall be valid for no more than 45 days and that such order may be extended by the Board for a subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia student environmental literacy; plan; grant fund and program. Requires the Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health, any other stakeholder that it deems appropriate, and the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Provision of abortion; abortion on the basis of genetic disorder, sex, or ethnicity prohibited; penalty. Removes from the list of persons who can perform first trimester abortions any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and results to be reported by precinct. Provides that absentee ballots processed at a central absentee precinct must be sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absentee ballot is assigne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; rolling conformity; report. Provides that, beginning with taxable year 2022, Virginia shall generally conform to federal tax laws on a rolling basis, meaning that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to the Internal Revenue Code as soon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voting systems; reporting absentee results by precinct. Includes in the definition of "voting system" on-demand ballot printing systems and ballot marking devices used to manufacture or mark ballots to be cast by voters on electronic votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco products taxes; penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Public utilities; delay of termination of service; serious medical condition; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation exemptions to termination of service by a public utility that provides electric, gas, water, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires regional planning commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Snare traps; prohibition. Prohibits the use of snare traps to hunt or kill game animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Local taxing authority. Restricts localities from imposing a transient occupancy tax at a rate that exceeds five percent and provides that any tax revenues from a rate of greater than two percent but less than five percent shall be spent solely for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the authority of a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body. Under current law, law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; transfer of custody. Provides that, in cases in which transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; recovery of fraudulent payments; report. Directs the Attorney General to report annually (i) the number of investigations conducted of providers of medical assistance services under the state plan for medical assistance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Vaccines; adverse events; reporting. Requires the Department of Health (the Department) to establish a process for receiving reports of adverse events, defined in the bill as adverse reactions to the administration of a vaccine, including any side ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board; Board of Directors of Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council; membership criteria. Adds to the membership of the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board, Board of Directors of Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB605 | Intro
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] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Local license taxes; elimination of authority to impose. Prohibits any county, city, or town from imposing any license tax or fee in any taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2023. The bill does not apply to any severance tax that is levied a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the tenth day prior to election. Limits absentee voting in person to the ten days immediately preceding an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and transient occupancy taxes; accommodations intermediaries. Broadens the definition of accommodations intermediary for purposes of collection of sales tax by accommodations intermediaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on handgun purchases; exemptions; penalty. Adds a federal law-enforcement officer to the list of those exempted from the prohibition on purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Local department; human resources. Requires every local department to (i) establish a human resources staff position to receive complaints regarding human resources matters and assist employees of the local department with resolution of such complain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Building energy use intensity; reporting; reduction; requirements; incentives and incentive programs. Allows localities to incentivize, by ordinance, the owner or operator of a building meeting certain criteria, or an agent of such owner or operator,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
