| HB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest or in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; warranty of habitability. Prohibits a landlord from waiving, either orally or in writing, his duty to maintain a fit premises, and requires a landlord to include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Driver's license and learner's permit renewal; certain older applicants. Lowers from 75 years old to 70 years old the age at which a person shall not be issued a driver's license for a period of more than five years and at which an applicant for a dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia local journalism sustainability credits. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for eligible local newspaper publishers, defined in the bill, for compensation paid to local news journalists. The credit is equal to (i) for the first taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Public utilities; rate review by the State Corporation Commission. Provides that in any annual rate review of a public utility by the State Corporation Commission, the Commission may find that the rates of a public utility, including an investor-owne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; National Guard. Increases from $3,000 to $5,000 the income tax subtraction for wages or salaries of a member of the National Guard of the Commonwealth. The bill also expands the military ranks that qualify for the subtraction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1143 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Labor and employment; misclassification of workers. Establishes criteria for classifying the difference between employees and independent contractors based on either (i) the common law 20-factor test established in Internal Revenue Service Ruling 87-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Illegal gambling; exceptions; internet poker; private residence. Exempts from the definition of "illegal gambling" participation in a game of internet poker, defined in the bill, conducted in a private residence, provided such private residence is no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Group health benefit plans; sponsoring associations; formation of benefits consortium. Provides that sponsoring associations, including self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements, may provide health benefit plans for small employers in the fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; per student enrollment-based funding; noncredit workforce training programs. Requires the per student enrollment-based funding provided to public institutions of higher education to include funding for each Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting with steel-jawed traps; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the use of steel-jawed traps when hunting; a violation of the prohibition is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Heavy Equipment Dealer Act. Provides that, under the Heavy Equipment Dealer Act, a supplier's refusal to continue with a dealer an agreement that is expiring in accordance with its terms constitutes a refusal to continue or renew the agreement even i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB934 | Intro
Sine Die | Employer-mandated vaccinations for COVID-19; required exemptions; civil penalties. Prohibits an employer from requiring its employees to receive a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 unless such employer provides individual exemptions that allow a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Violation of the terms and conditions of a suspended sentence or probation; technical violations; penalty. Removes from the definition of technical violation, used for the purposes of limiting the amount of active incarceration a court can impose as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1264 | Intro
Sine Die | New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Program; eligible institutions; maximum reimbursement per completed noncredit workforce training program. Increases from $3,000 to $4,000 the maximum amount that the State Council of Higher Education for Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase of handguns; limitation on handgun purchases. Removes the prohibition on any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period. Current law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a violation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing opportunity tax credit; specialty populations. Expands availability beginning in taxable year 2022 of the nonrefundable Virginia Housing Opportunity Tax Credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-income housing tax credit allocat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1235 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional officers; appointed deputies; dual office holding. Subjects any person appointed by a constitutional officer to serve as deputy as provided by law to the same dual office holding requirements and prohibitions applicable to the constitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; veteran retirement compensation. Provides an individual income tax subtraction for up to $40,000 of the amount of annual retirement compensation received by a veteran for service as a member of the United States Armed Forces, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Improper driving. Provides that a person may be charged with the offense of improper driving when his conduct is of the kind that constitutes reckless driving but when his degree of culpability is slight. Currently, a law-enforcement officer is not a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit for parents of stillborn child. Establishes a refundable income tax credit for individual filers or married persons filing jointly for taxable years on and after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2027, in an amount equal to $2,000 for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds the City of Charlottesville to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Right to counsel; target of investigation. Provides that whenever a person is informed in writing by the attorney for the Commonwealth, the Attorney General, or counsel or special counsel for a multi-jurisdiction grand jury or special grand jury that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Expungement of emergency and preliminary protective orders. Provides that a person against whom an emergency or preliminary protective order has been issued may petition to have police and court records relating to such order expunged if the order ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail marijuana stores; requirement for local referendum. Provides that if an act of assembly is passed by the 2022 Session of the General Assembly that authorizes the operation of retail marijuana stores in the Commonwealth, such retail marijuana s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; policy on sexually explicit instructional material. Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local school board to comply with, a policy to require each public elementary or secondary school to (i) notify the parent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood care and education; publicly funded providers; assessment of children. Provides that, except as otherwise required by federal law, no child who is enrolled at a publicly funded provider shall be required to participate in the Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; out-of-district contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits contributions to a candidate's campaign from persons that are not residents of the Commonwealth and limits to 75 percent of total contributions to a candidate's campaign ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Practitioners of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, and podiatric medicine; requirements. Increases the duration of postgraduate training required issuance of a license to practice medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatric medicine from 12 mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone systems within correctional facilities. Provides that no records of communications made by inmates from telephone systems within correctional facilities shall be disclosed without a search warrant, except upon the request of an inmate for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Creation of Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman (the Office). The bill enumerates the duties and powers of the Office, which include (i) providing information, as appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; agreements to establish opportunity classrooms. Requires each school board to enter into an agreement, upon request, with a public elementary or secondary school teacher or a group of such teachers in a local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply to the school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care providers; definition. Amends the definition of "health care provider" to include home care organizations and hospice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Involuntary commitment; release of person before expiration of order. Provides that no person who is the subject of an order for involuntary commitment shall be released from a state hospital or licensed hospital and that no community services board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office. Directs the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services to establish a Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office within the Department to (i) assist members of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric cooperatives; board of directors; access to meetings; required disclosures. Requires that each Virginia electric cooperative hold direct elections for its board of directors, either in person or by mail, or by electronic communication means ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; housing opportunity tax credits. Provides Income tax; housing opportunity tax credits. Provides that for award cycles, defined in the bill as the 12-month period during which the Virginia Housing and Development Authority (the Authority) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB280 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment insurance; Resiliency Plan. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission, as part of its biennial strategic plan submitted to the Department of Planning and Budget, to develop and maintain an unemployment insurance Resiliency Plan that de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Procurement of dogs and cats for research. Prohibits any state entity, including a public institution of higher education, from procuring dogs or cats for research purposes from a person or entity that has received certain citations pursuant to the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Wetland and stream mitigation credits; dam removal credits. Provides the Department of Environmental Quality the authority to allow applicants for permits with stream mitigation requirements to satisfy all or part of the requirements through dam remo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal refuse energy and reclamation tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable individual and corporate income tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 equal to $4 per ton of qualified coal refuse used to generate electricity at an eligible facility, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | Minor victims of sex trafficking; arrest and prosecution; services. Provides that no minor shall be subject to arrest, delinquency charges, or prosecution for (i) a status offense, (ii) an act that would be a misdemeanor if committed by an adult, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1100 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for full-time sworn members of the Department of Motor Vehicles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
