| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Commission. Provides that failure of an oyster lease holder to respond to a wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission request regarding an application within 30 days of receipt of such r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; expedited review process. Requires the Department of Health to establish an expedited review process for certain projects involving addition of imaging equipment, addition of a new ambulatory or outpatient surgery center, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N 1-A) |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Exempts food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products (the grocery tax) from all state, regional, and local sales ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Education improvement scholarships tax credits; sunset. Removes the sunset of taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2028, for the tax credit for donations to certain scholarship foundations and removes the sunset for changes to the definitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Air Pollution Control Board; consideration of certain facts and circumstances. Limits when the Air Pollution Control Board must consider certain facts and circumstances relevant to the reasonableness of the activity involved.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| SB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Resources Authority; short-term loans to planning district commissions. Provides that the Virginia Resources Authority (VRA) shall have the power to establish a perpetual and permanent revolving fund with any funds appropriated by the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Transient occupancy tax; supporting documentation. Requires accommodations providers to submit certain supporting documentation, upon request by a locality, when remitting transient occupancy taxes collected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB516 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Data Protection Act; nonprofit organizations. Provides, for the purposes of the Consumer Data Protection Act, that the definition for "nonprofit organization" includes certain nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under § 501 (c)(4) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Office; creation of a Secretary of Disability Services Coordination. Creates the position of Secretary of Disability Services Coordination to be appointed by the Governor. The bill provides for the responsibilities of the Secretary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Comprehensive children's health care coverage program. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to establish a program to provide state-funded comprehensive health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana tax; revenue allocations. Reallocates revenues from the state marijuana tax so that the 30 percent currently allocated to the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Fund would be reallocated to the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N) |
| SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Toll Relief Program; eligibility. Requires the Department of Transportation to expand eligibility for the Toll Relief Program for the tolls on the Downtown and Midtown Tunnels to residents of the Cities of Portsmouth and Norfolk with an income of $45...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Pet shops; sale of unneutered or unspayed dogs and cats prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a pet shop from selling a dog or cat unless it has first been spayed or neutered. A violation is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB553 | 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] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention; hospitals and providers of behavioral health services; acceptance of custody. Requires every hospital with an emergency department to employ sufficient security staff to be able to accept custody of a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Elections; membership. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections from five to six members and provides that any third party or recognized political party whose candidate received greater than 20 percent of the votes in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures. Requires in-state political action committees to file a report for any single expenditure of $1,000 or more made between October 1 and the date of the November el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards for vehicles with a model ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax; data center exemption. Reduces the new job creation requirement from 50 to 25 for the sales tax exemption for data center operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB682 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary detention; alternative custody. Provides that if the facility indicated on a temporary detention order is a state facility, no bed for the person detained or in custody pursuant to the temporary detention order is immediately available at s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB750 | Intro
Sine Die | Behavioral Health Hospital Authority; established. Creates the Behavioral Health Hospital Authority (the Authority) as an independent political subdivision of the Commonwealth, to control the delivery, financing, utilization, and health outcomes of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB7 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; standard deduction. Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2022, Virginia's standard deduction shall be in an amount equivalent to the federal standard deduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
