| HB539 | Engross
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; criminal history. Requires each public institution of higher education to include a disclosure to each applicant that certain criminal convictions may disqualify such applicant from pursuing his intended cours...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-24
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Renaming Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as Director of Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion. Renames the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the Director of Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion. The Director shall (i) deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB753 | Engross
Sine Die | Human rights; religious organizations; promotion of religious principles. Provides that nothing in the Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits a religious corporation, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, superv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB58 | Engross
Sine Die | Local government; prohibits certain practices Local government; prohibits certain practices that would require contractors to provide benefits. Prohibits local governing bodies from establishing provisions related to procurement of goods, professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-23
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB956 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; deadline for returning absentee ballot. Requires that an absentee ballot be received before the closing of the polls on election day in order to be counted. Currently, an absentee ballot that is received after the closing of the poll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB46 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification containing a photograph required; availability of absentee voting in person; processing returned absentee ballots; permanent absentee voter list repealed. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB528 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; unsolicited absentee ballot applications; required information. Requires any individual or organization sending an application for an absentee ballot to a registered voter that was not solicited or requested by the registered voter t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB39 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter identification; optional restrictive identification requirement. Allows a voter to opt into being required to show a valid photo identification issued by the Commonwealth, one of its political subdivisions, or the United States when voting in p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB185 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration permitted up to and including the day of the election. Repeals a provision that would permit any person who is qualified to register to vote to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election, n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1301 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeal of the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act. Directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to suspend the Commonwealth's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Repeal of the Clean Energy and Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1090 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1082 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; time of certain local elections. Removes a provision that requires local elections for mayor, members of a local governing body, or members of an elected school board to be held at the time of the November general election. The bill allows...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N 2-A) |
| HB34 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; return of absentee ballots; drop-off locations. Repeals the provisions of law providing for the establishment of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB196 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; permanent absentee voter list repealed. Repeals the provisions of law by which any registered voter may apply to receive absentee ballots for all elections in which he is eligible to vote and remains on the list until the voter reque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB11 | Engross
Sine Die | Concealed handgun permits; penalties. Changes the penalty for a first violation of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a civil penalty of not more than $100, a second violation from a Class 6 felony to a Class 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB341 | Engross
Sine Die | Public employees; labor union dues deduction authorization. Requires consent by public employees authorized to engage in collective bargaining before union or employee association dues are deducted from the employees' pay directly by their employers....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB1201 | Engross
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; disqualification for benefits; misconduct does not include refusing COVID-19 vaccine. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Employment Commission determining if an individual was separated or partially separated fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB296 | Engross
Sine Die | Minimum wage; definition of wages. Amends the definition of "wages" for the purposes of the Virginia Minimum Wage Act such that "wages" includes the reasonable cost to an employer of providing payments for health care benefits to an employee, provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB1040 | Engross
Sine Die | Minimum wage; small employers. Exempts employers that are individuals or entities with 10 or fewer employees from the state minimum wage requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Prosecution of felony due to lapse of time; judicial emergency; administrative delays. Provides that the speedy trial provisions shall be tolled upon a declaration of a judicial emergency. The bill also provides that the speedy trial provisions shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Project labor agreements; prevailing wage; collective bargaining for employees of local governments. Provides that state agencies, when engaged in procuring products or services or letting contracts for construction, manufacture, maintenance, or oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB744 | Engross
Sine Die | Killing the fetus of another; manslaughter; penalties. Provides that any person who kills the fetus of another by an intentional act committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB336 | Engross
Sine Die | Public employees; bargaining representative certification. Provides that, in a locality that has authorized collective bargaining by ordinance or resolution, a bargaining representative must be selected for each collective bargaining unit determined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB320 | Engross
Sine Die | Minimum wage. Repeals certain provisions of the Code of Virginia related to increasing the state minimum wage to more than $11.00 per hour. The bill also repeals provisions related to increasing the state minimum wage based on an annual adjusted mini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Public employees; compensation for union activities. Prohibits any employer of public employees authorized to engage in collective bargaining from entering into a collective bargaining agreement to compensate any public employee or third party for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-21
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| HB435 | Engross
Sine Die | Parole Board; powers and duties. Provides that the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) shall review and decide the case of each prisoner who is eligible for parole no later than that part of the calendar year in which he becomes eligible and (i) every...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-18
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Public school teachers; probationary term of service, grounds for dismissal, and dismissal hearings. Permits each school board to extend for up to two additional years the three-year probationary term of service that is required for each teacher in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB265 | Engross
Sine Die | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; elder abuse crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) financial exploitation of mentally incapacitated persons and (ii) abuse and neglect of incapacitated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 4-N) |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing access to adjoining property to make improvements or repairs. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property, and the property is so situated that it is impossible to perform the improvemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
VOTE: Defeated #2 (50-Y 50-N) |
| HB963 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; community groups and universities. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to maintain a list of community groups, state and local governments, Community Development Financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
VOTE: Defeated (47-Y 53-N) |
| HB1185 | Engross
Sine Die | Local tax; solar facility exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
VOTE: DEFEATED (44-Y 53-N) |
