| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19. Provides that licensed health care providers with prescriptive authority may prescribe, administer, or dispense hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to a patient with a clini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; H-2B employer-provided housing; registry. Requires every H-2B employer, as defined in the bill, to report to the Commissioner of Health the physical address of every unit of employer-provided housing, also defined in the bill, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-20
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Program; higher education centers. Adds educational programs at higher education centers that lead to an occupation in a high-demand field to the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back Program (G3) Program. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-20
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Newspersons crossing established police lines; exemption. Clarifies that a credentialed newsperson shall be exempt from the offense of crossing or remaining within police lines or barricades unless such persons are obstructing police, firefighters, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement age. Increases the mandatory judicial retirement age from 73 to 75. This increase in mandatory retirement age includes judges subject to mandatory retirement during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal cases; sentencing by jury. Provides that if a jury finds a person guilty of a criminal offense, such jury shall ascertain the punishment of the offense. Under current law, unless the accused has requested that the jury ascertain punishment, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; smoke detectors required in new residential dwellings. Requires battery operated or AC powered smoke alarm devices to be installed in all new residential dwellings. The bill requires battery operated smoke alarm devic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Common Interest Community Board; enforcement jurisdiction. Makes the enforcement of regulations for common interest community managers the sole responsibility of the Common Interest Community Bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. Governor; chief of staff and Governor's Secretaries. Provides that no chief of staff appointed by the Governor and no Secretary appointed by the Governor shall be members of each other's immediate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Class 1 felonies; mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for life. Provides that any person convicted of a Class 1 felony who was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense and is not determined to be a person with intellectual disability sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; nondiscrimination in places of public accommodation and certain private establishments; face coverings. Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodations including public and private elementary and secondary schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; nondiscrimination in places of public accommodation; COVID-19 vaccination status. The bill prohibits discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of an individual as having received, received in part, or not receive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; lists of persons voting at elections; disclosure of individual voting history prohibited. Prohibits certain persons in receipt of a list of persons voting at elections from disclosing the voting history of any individual on such list to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Committee amendments |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact. Adds the Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge to the Potomac River bridges subject to the Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact to facilitate the prompt and orderly removal of disabled and abandoned vehicles from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; verification of social security Voter registration; verification of social security numbers; provisional registration status. Requires the general registrars to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB167 | Intro
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] | 2022-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB127 | Intro
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] | 2022-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections. Applies the provisions of Elections. Applies the provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act to the chief deputy and confidential assistant for policy or administration for the Department of Elections. The bill also (i) expands the membership...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Boating safety education. Eliminates possession of a rental or lease agreement for a motorboat listing the person as the authorized operator of the boat from the list of conditions a person may meet to be considered in compliance with the boating saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB118 | Intro
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] | 2022-01-18
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; candidate contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $25,000 from any individual or committee to any one candidate for any election. The bill permits unli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB168 | Intro
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] | 2022-01-18
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining for public employees. Provides for collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which will determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB173 | Intro
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] | 2022-01-17
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Organ donors; unpaid leave; civil penalty. Requires that an employer that employs 15 or more employees provide eligible employees with (i) up to 60 business days of unpaid organ donation leave in any 12-month period to serve as an organ donor and (ii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses; report. Except for aggravated murder of a law-enforcement officer, eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Timing of municipal elections. Narrows the scope of existing provisions that require all municipal elections to be held in November by applying those provisions only to cities with a population greater than 200,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; referenda; local advisory referenda. Provides for an exception to the rule that prohibits a referendum from being placed on the ballot unless specifically authorized by statute or by charter, allowing each locality to provide by ordinance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Local law enforcement; records. Requires the chief of police of a local police department that is dissolved to relinquish certain required records to the sheriff for that locality. The bill makes failure to relinquish such records to the sheriff a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of power of attorney; conviction of agent for certain offenses. Provides that a power of attorney terminates when, subsequent to the execution of the power of attorney, the agent is convicted of a crime wherein the principal is the victim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurance; discrimination based on status as living organ donor prohibited. Prohibits any person from refusing to insure, refusing to continue to insure, or limiting the amount or extent of life insurance, disability insurance, or long-term care insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-17
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
