| HB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Victims of human trafficking; affirmative defense; writ of vacatur. Expands the definition of qualifying offense for the purposes of the issuance of a writ of vacatur for victims of commercial sex trafficking and the affirmative defense available to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; authority for localities to use cooperative procurement. Allows a public body to participate in cooperative procurement for construction contracts purchased by localities if the contract is valued at no greater than $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; established. Establishes the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program (the Program) to address student hunger at public institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; local offices; reapportionment and redistricting; effect of certain changes. Requires in certain localities that the passage of an ordinance providing for the election of an additional member of the governing body on an at-large basis must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Public health emergency; emergency orders and regulations; limitations. Provides that any emergency order or regulation adopted by the Board of Health shall be valid for no more than 45 days and that such order may be extended by the Board for a subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia student environmental literacy; plan; grant fund and program. Requires the Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Health, any other stakeholder that it deems appropriate, and the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Provision of abortion; abortion on the basis of genetic disorder, sex, or ethnicity prohibited; penalty. Removes from the list of persons who can perform first trimester abortions any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and results to be reported by precinct. Provides that absentee ballots processed at a central absentee precinct must be sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absentee ballot is assigne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; rolling conformity; report. Provides that, beginning with taxable year 2022, Virginia shall generally conform to federal tax laws on a rolling basis, meaning that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to the Internal Revenue Code as soon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voting systems; reporting absentee results by precinct. Includes in the definition of "voting system" on-demand ballot printing systems and ballot marking devices used to manufacture or mark ballots to be cast by voters on electronic votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco products taxes; penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Public utilities; delay of termination of service; serious medical condition; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation exemptions to termination of service by a public utility that provides electric, gas, water, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires regional planning commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Snare traps; prohibition. Prohibits the use of snare traps to hunt or kill game animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Local taxing authority. Restricts localities from imposing a transient occupancy tax at a rate that exceeds five percent and provides that any tax revenues from a rate of greater than two percent but less than five percent shall be spent solely for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the authority of a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body. Under current law, law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; transfer of custody. Provides that, in cases in which transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; recovery of fraudulent payments; report. Directs the Attorney General to report annually (i) the number of investigations conducted of providers of medical assistance services under the state plan for medical assistance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Vaccines; adverse events; reporting. Requires the Department of Health (the Department) to establish a process for receiving reports of adverse events, defined in the bill as adverse reactions to the administration of a vaccine, including any side ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board; Board of Directors of Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council; membership criteria. Adds to the membership of the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board, Board of Directors of Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); marriage; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2022, election to approve or reject an amendment that would repeal the constituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Local license taxes; elimination of authority to impose. Prohibits any county, city, or town from imposing any license tax or fee in any taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2023. The bill does not apply to any severance tax that is levied a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the tenth day prior to election. Limits absentee voting in person to the ten days immediately preceding an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and transient occupancy taxes; accommodations intermediaries. Broadens the definition of accommodations intermediary for purposes of collection of sales tax by accommodations intermediaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Limitation on handgun purchases; exemptions; penalty. Adds a federal law-enforcement officer to the list of those exempted from the prohibition on purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Local department; human resources. Requires every local department to (i) establish a human resources staff position to receive complaints regarding human resources matters and assist employees of the local department with resolution of such complain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Building energy use intensity; reporting; reduction; requirements; incentives and incentive programs. Allows localities to incentivize, by ordinance, the owner or operator of a building meeting certain criteria, or an agent of such owner or operator,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB976 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescriptions; unapproved 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 unapprove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition on use of show-up identification by law-enforcement officers. Prohibits the use of a show-up identification by any law-enforcement officer. The bill defines a "show-up identification" as an identification procedure in which an eyewitness ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1335 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of firearm, child day center; license exempt facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship; repeal. Repeals the prohibition on the carrying of dangerous weapons in a place of worship without good and sufficient reason while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB645 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile justice; human trafficking screening. Requires the Department of Juvenile Justice to use trauma-informed screening measures to identify whether any child committed to the Department has been a victim of human trafficking and determine approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1316 | Intro
Sine Die | Tree canopy credits; forest stands. Requires that localities that have adopted a tree canopy ordinance provide tree cover credit for high conservation value forest stands if a site developer provides a stand assessment before creating development pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB245 | 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 |
| HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Beverage container deposit and redemption program; established; civil and criminal penalties. Establishes a beverage container deposit, refund, and redemption program involving distributors, retailers, and consumers. The program would be run by a Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Long-term care insurance; rate increases; notice requirements. Requires an insurer of long-term care insurance policies to notify its customers and applicants in writing of the insurer's filing for a rate increase with the State Corporation Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB513 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; mandatory electronic filing for all candidates. Requires all independent expenditure and candidate campaign finance reports to be filed electronically with the Department of Elections. Under current law, such expenditure and finance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB799 | Intro
Sine Die | Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated individuals. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no collection fees, including the fees of any private attorneys or collecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Dangerous and vicious dogs; civil liability; knowledge of propensity not required. Provides that a dog owner may be civilly liable for a bite or attack by his dog regardless of whether he knew or should have known of such dog's propensity for vicious...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Towing fees. Applies the existing fee limitations for towing, storage, and safekeeping of passenger cars removed, towed, or stored from private property without the consent of the owner to all vehicles towed pursuant to a lawful request for towing by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction and local school boards; standards for certain public school library materials; parental review of library and other educational materials. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Disaster or emergency; weather extremes; disconnection prohibitions for certain utilities; residential customers; report. Prohibits telecommunications electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities and broadband companies from disconnecting service t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB1186 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Services; Mental Health Care Coordinator; position created; report. Establishes the position of Mental Health Care Coordinator (the Coordinator) in the Department of Veterans Services to support and closely coordinate effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; access to association records; electronic participation in association meetings. Clarifies that all books and records kept by or on behalf of an association shall be made available to a member in good standing or his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Damage to motor vehicles; catalytic converter; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to commit larceny of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle, regardless of the converter's value, and provides that any person found in possession of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB501 | Intro
Sine Die | Discovery in criminal cases; copies of discovery for the accused. Provides that for any discovery materials or evidence that the accused is permitted to inspect and review, the accused may request the Commonwealth to copy or photograph such discovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB415 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
