| SB380 | 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 |
| SB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; preexisting contracts. Establishes a reserve account for the purchase of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) allowances by an entity that has a preexisting contractual arrangement related to a power purchase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Refundable income tax credit for low-income taxpayers. Allows low-income individuals and married persons to claim either (i) a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to $300 for each individual, his spouse, and any dependents or (ii) a refundable inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. Allows a permit applicant to purchase wetland and stream mitigation credits from the locality in which the site is located if no credits are available to purchase in the primary service area or n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act. Repeals the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act and directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to take all steps necessary to suspend the Commonwealth's participati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB609 | 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 |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Shared solar programs for electric utilities; Phase I Utility; pilot. Allows for participation in shared solar programs by each investor-owned utility in the Commonwealth. Under the bill, the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) shall approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Capital murder; death penalty for the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a law-enforcement officer. Authorizes punishment by death for the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a law-enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care provider panels; vertically integrated carriers; reimbursements to providers. Requires any vertically integrated carrier, upon written request, to offer participation in each requested provider panel or network established for each of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Powers of local governments; additional powers; energy efficiency of buildings. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt optional building energy efficiency standards and allows localities to adopt and enforce these standards....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 8-N) |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Reckless driving; involuntary manslaughter. Increases the punishment for every person convicted of reckless driving who, when he committed the offense, caused the death of another as the sole and proximate result of his reckless driving. The bill sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (13-Y 2-N) |
| SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Overtime Wage Act. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Overtime Wage Act, the term "employee" does not include certain persons excluded from the definition of "employee" under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (the federal act)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Abuse and neglect; financial exploitation; incapacitated adults; penalties. Changes the term "incapacitated adult" to "vulnerable adult" for the purposes of the crime of abuse and neglect of such adults and defines "vulnerable adult" as any person 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; recovery of costs; rate adjustment clause proceedings; construction or acquisition of certain facilities. Provides that in any proceeding regarding petitions for a rate adjustment clause, the State Corporation Commission may, as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB646 | Intro
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] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB518 | 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] | 2022-02-07
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Overtime pay requirements; volunteers. Permits individuals who work as both employees and on a volunteer basis for a public body, church, or nonprofit organization to earn overtime wages for hours worked as an employee only and continues to exclude h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions. Provides that the limits on recovery in medical malpractice cases shall not apply when the plaintiff has sustained certain catastrophic injuries. Limitation on recovery in certain medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; retail competition; renewable energy. Allows individual retail customers of an electric utility to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensed supplier. The measure eliminates (i) provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2025. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Larceny of a catalytic converter; penalty. Provides that any person who conspires, confederates, or combines with another to commit larceny or counsels, assists, aids, or abets another in the performance of a larceny of a catalytic converter from a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Child abuse and neglect; limitations period on sexual abuse of a minor claims; background check and training requirements for youth sports coaches and staff. Eliminates the civil statute of limitations period for injury resulting from sexual abuse oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (11-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sale of cannabis products by certain pharmaceutical processors; sunset. Allows certain pharmaceutical processors to, under the oversight of the Board of Pharmacy, sell cannabis products at retail to unregistered persons who are 21 years of age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-04
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Parole Board; membership; records; report. Increases from five to 11 the number of members to be appointed to the Virginia Parole Board (the Board). The bill requires the Board to (i) include in its monthly report regarding actions taken by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-04
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Expands the list of offenses that would prohibit a person from petitioning the Parole Board for conditional release as a geriatric prisoner if the offense was committed on or after July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Public schools; regional charter school divisions. Authorizes the Board of Education (the Board) to establish regional charter school divisions consisting of at least two but not more than three existing school divisions in regions in which each unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; curricula and instruction including inherently divisive concepts prohibited. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal to ensure that no curriculum utilized or instruction delivered in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum staffing standards for nursing homes and certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions; Long-Term Care Services Fund. Requires nursing homes to meet a baseline staffing level based on resident acuity in alignment with the Centers for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 8-N 1-A) |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Public hospitals; medical debt collection practices. Requires the University of Virginia Medical Center (the Medical Center) and the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority (the Authority) to make payment plans available to each pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Treatment of transgender students; model policies. Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policies that are consistent with the model policies developed by the Department of Education concerning the treatment of transgender students ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | High school interscholastic athletic competition; High school interscholastic athletic competition; prevention of hate speech and ethnically or racially insensitive expressions. Requires the organization governing high school athletics and academic a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; foreign governments; programs and grants. Prohibits employees at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth from participating in Chinese-sponsored talent recruitment programs or receiving Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; alternate directors. Repeals a provision of the 2018 mass transit funding legislation that requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to withhold certain funding from the Washington Metropolitan Are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (1-Y 12-N 2-A) |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Employers; institutions of higher education; localities; public schools; face coverings. Prohibits any locality, institution of higher education, employer, school board, division superintendent, school principal, or private school from adopting, impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 4-N) |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of Highways; roadways operating under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to operate under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Directs the Commissioner of Highways to evaluate whether it is in the public interest for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | State of good repair funds. Makes bridges with a general condition rating of no greater than five eligible for state of good repair funding. Under current law, structurally deficient bridges and highways with deficient pavement conditions are eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; school resource officers; employment; threat assessment. Requires each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency to employ at least one school resource officer in each public elementary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (4-Y 11-N) |
| SB178 | Intro
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] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 5-N) |
| SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody; extension; medical testing, observation, or treatment. Provides that a magistrate may, upon the sworn petition of the Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services or his designee, issue an order extending an emergen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB277 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Motor Vehicles; Virginia Community Policing Act; race and ethnicity data. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to require an applicant for an original driver's license, driver privilege card, special identification card with or wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Schools; athletics; participation in female sports; civil cause of action. Requires each elementary or secondary school or a private school that competes in sponsored athletic events against such public schools to designate athletic teams, whether a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Death with Dignity Act; penalties. Allows an adult who has been determined by an attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal condition to request medication for the purpose of ending his life in a humane and dignified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; transfer of custody. Makes clear that, in cases in which transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order is ordered to be provided by an alternat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-03
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; county and city enforcement. Provides that any county or city may bring an action to enforce the provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act related to health and safety, provided that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; access to records; generally accepted accounting principles. Provides that all financial books and records shall be kept in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Current law states that all financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Liability for sale of alcohol to an impaired customer; injury to another person due to operation of vehicle while intoxicated. Creates a cause of action against an alcoholic beverage control retail licensee who sells alcohol to a customer who subsequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Liability for sale of alcohol to an underage person. Creates a cause of action against an alcoholic beverage control retail licensee who sells alcohol to an underage person who was visibly intoxicated if the consumption of the alcohol caused or contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (4-Y 10-N) |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Notaries. Makes various changes to the laws related to notaries and electronic notaries, including (i) specifying information to be included in an application; (ii) specifying the reasons for which the Secretary of the Commonwealth may deny an applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
