| SB283 | Pass | Removal of county courthouse; Augusta County; authorization by electorate. Allows Augusta County to hold a referendum on the courthouse removal in 2022, despite the 10-year waiting requirement, if plans are developed for (i) relocating to a newly con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| SB4 | Pass | 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 45 days from the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0803) |
| SB36 | Pass | 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] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0794) |
| SB192 | Pass | Local health director; qualifications. Amends the qualification requirements for local health directors to provide that a person may be a local health director if he possess a master's or doctoral degree in the area of public health and has at least ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804) |
| SB474 | Veto | Requirement for appeals bond; indigent parties; appeal of unlawful detainer. Removes the requirement for an indigent defendant, as defined in the bill, to post an appeal bond in an unlawful detainer action appealed from the general district court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB508 | Veto | Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board; Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund. Shifts the administration of the Virginia Community Flood Preparedness Fund from the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Virginia Soil and Water Cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB163 | Pass | Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortions or selective reductions unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0800) |
| SB416 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; purchase of personal protective equipment. Requires a state agency, whenever purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE) for public use, to ensure such PPE comply with all applicable federal and international certi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0802) |
| SB24 | Pass | Eviction Diversion Pilot Program; expiration; report. Extends from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, the expiration date of the Eviction Diversion Pilot Program. The bill also requires the Virginia Housing Commission to submit an interim report no later...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0797) |
| SB182 | Veto | Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications of members of boards and commissions. Removes the requirement in the City of Falls Church charter that board and commission members be qualified voters, replacing it with an age requirement of at least 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| SB345 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles documents; blood type. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a method by which an applicant for a driver's license or identification card may indicate his blood type to be noted on his license or card for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0796) |
| SB199 | Pass | Public auction of personal property to satisfy lien; advertisement requirement alternative contact. Removes the provisions regarding the content of and publishing requirements for an advertisement for a public auction of personal property for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| SB672 | Pass | Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; initiation of treatment with and dispensing and administration of vaccines. Allows pharmacists and pharmacy technicians acting under the supervision of a pharmacist to initiate treatment with and dispense and adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| SB575 | Pass | Department of General Services; state fleet managers to use total cost of ownership calculations; report. Requires the Department of General Services, beginning October 1, 2022, to procure a total cost of ownership calculator prior to procuring any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| SB46 | Pass | Certain emergency and quarantine orders; additional procedural requirements. Provides that, in any case in which the Governor has issued an emergency order that includes any measure that closes schools or businesses or restricts the movement of healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| SB591 | Enroll
Sine Die | Marijuana; shape prohibitions; definitions of marijuana and tetrahydrocannabinol. Modifies the definition of "marijuana" in several Code sections to (i) include any substance containing a total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that exceeds 0.3 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB288 | Veto | Virginia taxable income; corporations; deductions; business interest. Increases from 20 percent to 30 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § 163(j) of the Internal R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB595 | Pass | Nitrile Glove Manufacturing Training Program; established. Establishes the Nitrile Glove Manufacturing Training Program, a funding program of up to $4,601,000 for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, through the Virginia Talent Accelerator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| SB647 | Pass | Commissioner of Health; administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices, and vaccines during public health emergency; emergency. Allows the Commissioner of Health to authorize persons who are not authorized by law to administer or dispense ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| SB401 | Pass | Enforcement of gaming laws; Gaming Enforcement Coordinator established. Establishes the Office of the Gaming Enforcement Coordinator in the Department of State Police and charges such Coordinator with coordinating local, state, and federal enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0721) |
| SB593 | Pass | Custody and transportation of persons subject to emergency custody or temporary detention order; alternative custody; auxiliary police officers. Allows auxiliary police officers to provide transportation for a person subject to an emergency custody o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0730) |
| SB389 | Veto | Support of parents by child; repeal. Repeals the provision of the Code of Virginia requiring an adult child to assist in providing for the support and maintenance of his or her parent, when such parent requires assistance. Under current law, failure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB722 | Veto | Improper parking. Authorizes localities in Planning District 8 to prohibit parking a motor vehicle with its wheels fully on the curb or with its wheels straddling the curb and provides that any motor vehicle parked on a curb is subject to a fine and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB733 | Pass | Exempted vehicles; insurance. Requires motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers exempted from the registration requirement to be covered by motor vehicle insurance; a general liability policy; or an umbrella or excess insurance policy. The bill re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736) |
| SB278 | Veto | Parking of vehicles; electric vehicle charging spots; civil penalties. Prohibits a person from parking a vehicle not capable of receiving an electric charge in a space clearly marked as reserved for charging electric vehicles. A violation is subject ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB250 | Veto | Nonhazardous solid waste fees. Increases the annual fees for nonhazardous solid waste management facilities and indexes the fees annually based on the change in the Consumer Price Index. Nonhazardous solid waste fees. Increases the annual fees for n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Passed by for the day |
| SB120 | Pass | Department of Energy; waste coal piles; report. Directs the Department of Energy, in cooperation with public institutions of higher education serving the coalfield region of the Commonwealth, to identify the approximate volume and number of waste coa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711) |
| SB776 | Pass | Sale or auction of surplus property; General Assembly replacement project. Provides for the sale or auction of surplus property from the Pocahontas Building as part of the General Assembly replacement project and for the transfer of all net proceeds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741) |
| SB342 | Pass | Transit Ridership Incentive Program. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to use at least 25 percent of the funds available for the Transit Ridership Incentive Program for grants to fund reduced-fare or zero-fare transit projects. Under curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0719) |
| SB464 | Veto | Witness summons in a criminal matter; requirements. Requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to file with the clerk of the court a copy of any witness subpoena and to provide a copy of such subpoena to any defendant or attorney for the defendant in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Passed by for the day |
| SB741 | Pass | Facial recognition technology; authorized uses; penalty. Authorizes local law-enforcement agencies, campus police departments, and the Department of State Police (the Department) to use facial recognition technology for certain authorized uses as def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| SB14 | Pass | Board of Pharmacy; prescription drug donation program; work group. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to convene a work group of interested stakeholders to evaluate any challenges and barriers to participation in the prescription drug donation program and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) |
| SB143 | Pass | Court of Appeals of Virginia; emergency. Makes various changes to the procedures and jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, including (i) clarifying that an aggrieved party of certain pretrial orders may petition the Court of Appeals for r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0714) |
| SB219 | Pass | Virginia Employment Commission; administrative reforms; reporting requirements; electronic submissions; Unemployment Compensation Ombudsman established; emergency. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to calculate and report the (i) average un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| SB286 | Veto | Required disclosure for buyer to beware; buyer due diligence; historic districts. Adds a survey of the property to the list of materials that a purchaser of the property can review as part of exercising whatever due diligence the particular purchaser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB577 | Pass | Children's residential facilities; criminal history background checks. Allows a person who is required to undergo a background check as a condition of employment at a children's residential facility to be employed by the children's residential facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0729) |
| SB550 | Pass | Contracts; payment clauses to be included in certain contracts; right to payment of subcontractors. Requires construction contracts awarded by state or local government agencies as well as certain private construction contracts in which there is at l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) |
| SB756 | Pass | Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund. Creates the Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund. The bill provides guidelines for deposits, expenditures, and investments and requires an annual audit of the Virginia Resources Authority. The bill provides that the Fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739) |
| SB403 | Pass | Charitable gaming; social organizations and social quarters; electronic gaming. Provides that the conduct of electronic gaming, defined in the bill, is restricted to qualified social organizations on their premises or other qualified organizations th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0722) |
| SB297 | Veto | Stay of debt collection activities by health care providers; prohibited practice under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that any health care provider that undertakes any debt collection activities prior to either the issuance of an award or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB280 | Veto | Electric utilities; local reliability data; report. Directs Dominion Energy Virginia to provide local reliability data within 30 days upon request by a locality located within the service territory of the utility. The State Corporation Commission sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB17 | Pass | Employment of retired law-enforcement officers; exemption from certain training requirements. Provides that the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall exempt a law-enforcement officer who has demonstrated sensitivity to cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| SB393 | Veto | Consumer Data Protection Act; data deletion request. Provides that a controller that has obtained personal data about a consumer from a third party shall be deemed in compliance with a consumer's request to delete such data if the controller either (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB436 | Pass | Board of Health; Statewide Telehealth Plan; Virginia Telehealth Network. Requires the Board of Health (the Board) to consult with the Virginia Telehealth Network in amending and maintaining the Statewide Telehealth Plan. The bill requires the Board t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| SB369 | Pass | Public health emergency; out-of-state licenses; deemed licensure. Allows a practitioner of a profession regulated by the Board of Medicine who is licensed in another state or the District of Columbia and who is in good standing with the applicable re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0720) |
| SB706 | Veto | Heavy trucks; operation in certain weather conditions. Prohibits operators of heavy trucks, as defined in the bill, from using cruise control or compression release engine brakes when driving in active snow, sleet, or freezing rain. Heavy trucks; ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| SB100 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services licensed programs; cardiopulmonary resuscitation for program participants. Allows employees of programs licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services who are cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| SB538 | Pass | Nonpayment of wages; defense of contractor. Provides that a general contractor or subcontractor, regardless of tier, may submit as evidence in defending against a claim for nonpayment a written certification, under oath, from any lower-tier subcontra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726) |
| SB622 | Pass | Recovery residences. Requires that all recovery residences be certified by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) and that recovery residences, as a condition of such certification, comply with any minimum squ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| SB78 | Pass | Board of Education; driver education programs; parent/student driver education. Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) |
