| HB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearms or other weapons on school property. Removes preschools and licensed child day centers that are not operated at the residence of the provider or of any of the children from the list of schools where possessing a firearm or othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB410 | 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 |
| HB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Regular grand jury; provisions for court reporter; use and disposition of notes, tapes, and transcriptions. Provides that a court reporter shall be provided for a regular grand jury to record, manually or electronically, and transcribe all oral testi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code Robbery. Conforms certain provisions of the Code referencing robbery to the degrees of robbery offenses established by Chapter 534 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I. These changes incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB521 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Commerce and Trade; task force to study costs of business regulatory compliance; report. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to establish a task force to study the costs associated with the management of regulatory compliance for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Assisted living facilities; involuntary discharge of a resident. Provides that an assisted living facility shall not involuntary discharge a patient except (i) in cases in which the resident's condition presents an immediate and serious risk to the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal proceedings; evidence of defendant's mental condition. Repeals provisions permitting the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert testimony, if such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB572 | Intro
Sine Die | Child support obligations; party's incarceration not deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment. Provides that a party's incarceration for 180 or more consecutive days shall not be deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment for the purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfer of certain firearms; criminal history record information check; exemption. Provides that persons who hold a federal firearms license Type 03 - Collector of Curios and Relics are exempt from the criminal history record information check requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Death of the parent or guardian of a child resulting from driving under the influence; child support. Provides that in any case where a person was convicted of involuntary manslaughter as a result of driving a motor vehicle or operating a watercraft ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR112 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Transportation; transit equity and engagement opportunities for people with disabilities; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study transit equity and modernization in the Commonwealth, with an emphasis on transi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR54 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; workforce development in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to update its 2014 review of workforce training in the Commonwealth with a new study of workforce development. In condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; penalty. Repeals the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material within (i) the Capitol of V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; electronic credentials. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue electronic credentials and to create and operate a verification system for such credentials. Current law authorizes the Department to issue such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | State park fees; Virginia National Guard and Virginia Air National Guard. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to establish a policy that entitles any active duty member of the Virginia National Guard or the Virginia Air National Gua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; hazardous duty pay. Provides that service in the Fire and Rescue Department of the Virginia Air National Guard shall be treated as service in a hazardous position for purposes of the hazardous duty supplement or increased retirement multipl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1240 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Public auction of personal property to satisfy lien; advertisement requirement; website. Allows an advertisement for the public auction of personal property to satisfy a lien to be published on a publicly accessible website that conducts property sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation and workers' compensation; testing for the use of nonprescribed controlled substances. Requires, for an applicant for unemployment benefits for whom the only suitable work available is in an occupation that regularly require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulated hemp products. Directs the Board of Directors of the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to establish a scheme for the regulation of hemp products intended for smoking, edible hemp products, and topical hemp products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act; publication of disciplinary actions; award eligibility. Requires, to the extent permissible by state and federal law, the Board of Medicine to publish on its website disciplinary action tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory and licensing structure for such retail market and for the cultivation, manufacture, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Discretionary sentencing guidelines; prior convictions and juvenile adjudications. Provides that, for the purposes of discretionary sentencing, previous convictions shall not include (i) any adult conviction more than 10 years prior to the date of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Communication systems within state correctional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; English language learners. Requires state funding to be provided to support new divisionwide ratios of English learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions, as follows: (i) for each English l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school buses; decals; "In God We Trust" and "One Nation Under God." Permits local school boards, notwithstanding any regulation to the contrary, to display on the sides and rear of public school buses decals containing the motto "In God We Tru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention orders; custody. Requires a facility or location to which a minor or adult who is subject to an emergency custody or temporary detention order is transported to accept custody of the minor or adult upon compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB254 | Intro
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] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Electric Vehicle Grant Program; use of state funds. Allows the Department of Environmental Quality to use state funds for costs associated with convening a work group to develop recommendations and establish criteria for the Virginia Electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Violation of ordinances; schedule of civil penalties. Allows localities to create schedules of fines and penalties for violations of designated ordinances. The bill establishes limits on fine amounts and frequency, as well as guidance on separate off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Savings Account Program; establishment. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department) with assistance from each local school board, whereby the parent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; charges for production of public records. Prohibits a public body from charging a requester for any costs incurred during the first two hours spent accessing or searching for requested records when such requester ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Interest on fines and costs in criminal cases and traffic infractions. Eliminates the accrual of interest on any fine or costs imposed in a criminal case or in a case involving a traffic infraction. The bill provides that any such fine or costs that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption; aircraft components. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2027, the sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for parts, engines, and supplies used for maintaining, repairing, or reconditioning aircraft or any airc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1101 | Intro
Sine Die | State and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. Prohibits state and local elections officials from soliciting, accepting, using, or disposing of any moneys, grants, property, or services given by a private ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB570 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Nolle prosequi or dismissal without prejudice prior to preliminary hearing; subsequent indictment; depositions. Provides that if the district court enters a nolle prosequi or grants a dismissal without prejudice upon motion of the attorney for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; statement of lot owner rights. Provides that, pursuant to the Property Owners' Association Act, every lot owner who is a member in good standing of a property owners' association shall have (i) the equal right to pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Income taxation; pass-through entities. Permits a qualifying pass-through entity, defined in the bill, to make an annual election in taxable years 2021 through 2025 to pay an elective income tax at a rate of 5.75 percent, created by the bill, at the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB786 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; policy on certain instructional material and related academic activities; annual parental notification; replacement or alternative material and activities; local compliance. Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, whereby the parent of any individual who is a residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis. Replaces the term "marijuana" with the term "cannabis" throughout the Cannabis Control Act. The bill also replaces the terms "botanical cannabis" and "cannabis" with the term "medical cannabis" throughout the sections of the Code of Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB543 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties; attorney visitation of clients. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to develop and establish minimum standards for ensuring that attorneys have sufficient opportunities to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB398 | 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 |
| HB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Window tinting; vehicle stop. Removes the prohibition on a law-enforcement officer from stopping a motor vehicle for a violation of provisions related to window tinting and the prohibition of evidence discovered or obtained at such stop from being ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; teaching material expenses. Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2022 for the lesser of $500 or the actual purchase price of teaching materials purchased by a teacher and used in teaching Virginia public pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Child labor; tobacco farms; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from employing a child under the age of 18 to work in direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves unless (i) the owner of the farm or other location at which such work is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Mining and processing of certain minerals and elements; study; permitting. Directs the Secretaries of Natural and Historic Resources, Health and Human Resources, and Commerce and Trade to convene a work group to study the mining and processing of cop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth College Completion Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Commonwealth College Completion Fund (the Fund) and Program (the Program) for the purpose of administering funds to students enrolled as full-time or part-time students at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; requirement to submit list of subcontractors; penalty. Requires all bidders or offerors on contracts for construction of $250,000 or more to submit a list of subcontractors intended to be used ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
