| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Provides for all appropriations of the Budget submitted by the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the provisions of § 2.2-1509 of the Code of Virginia, and provides a portion of revenues for the two years ending respectively on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 552 of the 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I, as amended by Chapter 1 of the 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session II.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | End Stage Renal Disease Patient Navigator Network. Directs the Department of Health to establish the End State Renal Disease Patient Navigator Network to assist persons diagnosed with end stage renal disease in navigating through the health care syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-16
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB343 | 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] | 2022-02-16
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sale of cannabis products by certain pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors; sunset. Allows certain pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors to sell, under the oversight of the Board of Directors of the Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 2-N) |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred disposition; persons with autism or intellectual disabilities; offenses against minors. Provides that certain felony offenses, including child pornography, obscenity, electronic solicitation of a minor, indecent liberties with children, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers and retired law-enforcement officers to the prohibition of carry...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB75 | 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] | 2022-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (13-Y 3-N) |
| SB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee protections; candidacy for or service in the General Assembly. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, threatening, discriminating against, or penalizing an employee, or taking other retaliatory action regarding an employee's c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (15-Y 1-N) |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Court appearance of a person not free on bail. Makes various changes to provisions regarding bail hearings, including (i) the appointment of counsel for the accused, (ii) the information provided to counsel for the accused, (iii) a requirement that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Exhaust systems; excessive noise. Prohibits any individual from operating a motor vehicle with a gross weight of 6,500 pounds or less with an exhaust system that emits noise in excess of 85 decibels. The bill also allows the governing body of any cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescriptions; off-label use. Provides that a licensed health care provider with prescriptive authority may prescribe, administer, or dispense a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an off-label ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Powers of State Health Commissioner in epidemic; vaccine; religious tenets or practices. Allows a parent or guardian to object to the vaccination or immunization of a child on the grounds that the administration of immunizing agents conflicts with hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Casino gaming; eligible host cities; limits on local referendums. Adds Petersburg to the list of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (7-Y 9-N) |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Freestanding emergency departments. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations related to freestanding emergency departments, defined in the bill as facilities located in the Commonwealth that (i) provide emergency services, (ii) are owne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplementing compensation of public defender. Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or his employees, above the salary of any such of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle history report companies; notifications. Requires vehicle history report companies, as defined in the bill, to notify a vehicle owner and lienholder, if any, if his vehicle has been deemed nonrepairable or any comparable term in the records o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Coastal Virginia Resiliency Authority; established. Establishes the Coastal Virginia Resiliency Authority (the Authority) as a body politic and corporate, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the Authority shall be gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB122 | Intro
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] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; nursing homes; charity care. Exempts nursing homes from the requirement that applicants for a certificate of public need agree to provide a specified level of charity care to indigent persons or accept patients requiring s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and local retirement systems; fossil fuel divestment; report. Requires the Virginia Retirement System and local retirement systems to divest from fossil fuel companies by January 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; evaluation of and recommendations for Board of Education; evaluation of and recommendations for certain current and proposed policies and performance standards for public elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Board of Edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Compensation of court-appointed counsel. Increases the statutory caps for fees paid to court-appointed counsel in indigent cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; Statewide Telehealth Plan; emergency services coordination. Directs the Department of Health to amend the Statewide Telehealth Plan to require health care providers providing telehealth services to directly contact and coordinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (11-Y 0-N) |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2022 through 2026 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel. Lowers the rate of tax on gasoline and diesel fuel on July 1, 2022, from 26.2 cents per gallon to 21.2 cents per gallon on gasoline and from 27 cents per gallon to 20.2 cents per gallon on diesel fuel, the rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N) |
| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; military retirement income subtraction. Exempts, beginning with taxable year 2022, up to $40,000 of military retirement income of a veteran who is at least 55 years old and who was honorably discharged after active duty service in the Arm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB540 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit; small businesses. Provides, in taxable year 2022, an individual or corporate income tax credit, as applicable for an eligible small business, defined in the bill as a (i) (a) pass-through entity that employs fewer than 50 employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | State subsidy of property tax exemptions for disabled veterans and surviving spouses. Requires the Commonwealth to subsidize local real estate tax relief for disabled veterans and surviving spouses of members of the United States Armed Forces killed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Public charter schools; applications; review and approval. Permits the Board of Education (the Board) to receive, review, and rule upon applications for public charter schools and enter into agreements for the establishment of public charter schools....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Public defender offices; County of Henrico. Establishes a public defender office for the County of Henrico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Public charter schools; applications; review and approval. Permits the Board of Education (the Board) to receive, review, and rule upon applications for public charter schools and enter into agreements for the establishment of public charter schools....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professions and any reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; inpatient psychiatric services and facilities. Requires the Commissioner of Health (the Commissioner) to impose conditions related to the provision of care to individuals who are the subject of a temporary detention order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2022 through 2026 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; military benefits subtraction; emergency. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of military benefits in taxable year 2021, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2022, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2023 and each year thereaft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Standardized Health Care Academy Program; established. Establishes the Standardized Health Care Academy Program for the purpose of providing training and opportunities to high school students in health care professional programs that are offered by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who is 18 years of age or older, is of good moral character, has graduated from an accr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Workplace violence protective orders. Provides that an employer may petition the court for a preliminary protective order or a protective order to protect the health and safety of its employees. The bill provides that the venue for a workplace violen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Custody and visitation; grandparents; mediation. Requires any case in which a grandparent petitions the court for custody or visitation of a minor grandchild to be referred by the court to mediation. The bill requires the petitioning party to pay the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitive compensation for certain positions in public elementary and secondary schools. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers and all other individuals employed in Standards of Quality-funded positions be compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent. Removes the requirement that a tenant, if in possession of a dwelling unit, must pay for the court to hold the amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| SB731 | 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 60 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Public School Trades Incentive Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Public School Trades Incentive Fund (the Fund) and the Public School Trades Incentive Program (the Program) for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SB770 | Intro
Sine Die | Places of confinement for juveniles. Provides that there shall be a presumption prohibiting the incarceration of a juvenile offender, who has been convicted and sentenced as an adult in circuit court, in an adult correctional facility prior to his or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
