| HB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Search warrants; execution. Removes provisions requiring that search warrants for the search of any place of abode be executed by initial entry of the abode only in the daytime hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of Health; study of the occurrence of PFOA, PFOS, PFBA, PFHpA, PFHxS, PFNA, and other PFAS in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of perfluo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. Adds animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for haz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB344 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers, grocery store workers, and home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB804 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; nonrefundable application fee; limitations. Places limitations on when a landlord may charge a nonrefundable application fee in addition to a refundable application deposit. The bill prohibits a landlord ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; veteran retirement compensation. Provides an individual income tax subtraction for certain amounts of the annual retirement compensation received by a veteran who is at least 65 years old for service as a member of the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing access to, purchase for, or provision of marijuana to minors; penalties. Clarifies that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who cultivates marijuana plants for personal use to recklessly allow unauthorized access to such marijuana pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Students who receive home instruction; participation in interscholastic programs. Prohibits public schools from joining an organization governing interscholastic programs that does not deem eligible for participation a student who (i) receives home i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB995 | Intro
Sine Die | Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for hypertension, heart disease, COVID-19. Extends by one year the December 31, 2021, expiration date of the presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Nondiscrimination in places of public accommodation; definitions. Nondiscrimination in places of public accommodation; definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank; created. Creates the Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank, an authority to promote and catalyze investment in qualified projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, assist climate-impacted communities, and promote ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections administration; requests made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act; deferment of response when request received during certain period of time. Allows local electoral boards and general registrars to defer providing a response to a req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective orders; possession of firearms. Allows a person subject to a protective order to continue to possess any firearm while in his place of residence that was possessed by such person at the time of service, provided that he is not otherwise pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB132 | Intro
Sine Die | State parks; Disabled Veteran's Passport. Expands the Disabled Veteran's Passport program to all U.S. veterans with a service-connected disability. Currently, a veteran must be 100 percent disabled to be eligible for the program, which provides free ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB251 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds; school maintenance, renovation, and construction. Encourages each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local governing body to set aside in a separate fund any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills; certain instructional policies prohibited; parental rights; disclosures; penalties; other remedies. Requires the Board of Education to incorporate into each relevant Standard of Lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment; anti-harassment training requirement. Requires each employer with five or more employees, including the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions, to provide training regarding sexual harassment and workplace discrimination by January 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Labor Standards Act waiver; employees with disabilities. Removes the provision of the Code stating that any person who is paid pursuant to Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act is not considered an employee for the purposes of the Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB600 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Makes permanent provisions of the Code currently set to expire on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Storage of firearms in residence where minor present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Establishes the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention (the Center) within the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB915 | Intro
Sine Die | Required immunizations; regulations. Provides that a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of each child in the Commonwealth shall cause such child to be vaccinated in accordance with the Regulations for the Immunization of School Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan; climate resilience. Requires a locality's comprehensive plan to consider strategies to address climate resilience in order to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to changing conditions and hazardous events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Snare traps; prohibition. Prohibits the use of snare traps with a circumference greater than 12 inches to hunt or kill game animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Automatic renewal or continuous service offer to consumer; cancellation and online opt-out. Requires that the supplier of automatic renewals or continuous service offers that include a free trial notify the consumer of the automatic renewal seven day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB564 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Portsmouth; city council; noninterference. Charter; City of Portsmouth; city council; noninterference. Provides that any member of the Portsmouth City Council who violates certain charter provisions related to noninterference in appo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; admissions requirements. Requires the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology academic year Governor's School in Fairfax County to annually admit for first-time enrollment as fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic development; incentives to attract knowledge workers. Provides, for taxable years 2022 through 2027, an income tax deduction for 50 percent of the amount a qualified knowledge worker, defined in the bill, pays for residential high speed inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and African nations, with a focus on the areas of commer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Wetland and stream mitigation banks; use of credits from secondary service area. Allows any applicant for a Virginia Water Protection Permit to purchase or use credits from the secondary service area of a mitigation service provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Bail in subsequent proceeding arising out of initial arrest. Provides that any person who was previously admitted to bail shall be granted bail and have the terms of bond or recognizance fixed in the amount or manner consistent with the prior admissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB959 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissemination of information regarding unpermitted discharges; de minimis impact. Modifies the current requirement that the Department of Environmental Quality disseminate information about certain unpermitted discharges to require dissemination of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Solar facilities; permit by rule. Lowers from 150 to 20 megawatts the maximum generation capacity of an electrical generation facility that generates electricity only from sunlight to qualify for issuance of a permit by rule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB440 | Intro
Sine Die | School boards; teachers; planning time and planning periods. Requires each local school board to ensure that each elementary school teacher is provided an average of one 45-minute period per school day of planning time and that each middle and high s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations; civil penalty. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor the Commissioner of Health shall make any emergency order or regulation unless, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB877 | Intro
Sine Die | Public benefits; eligibility of certain aliens. Repeals provisions prohibiting persons other than United States citizens or persons who are legally present in the United States from receiving certain public benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB447 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadband providers; affordable monthly plan. Requires each broadband provider operating in the Commonwealth to offer an affordable monthly plan for broadband services that (i) does not exceed $50 per month and (ii) meets the faster of either (a) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; teacher career ladder compensation programs. Requires each local school board to establish a teacher career ladder compensation program (program) whereby each rung on the ladder corresponds to a specific teacher career and compen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | Paraquat information. Requires the Department of Health to develop an information sheet regarding the public health risks of the pesticide known as paraquat and make the sheet available to download from its website. The bill requires the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana cultivation facility licenses; preference for certain Virginia farmers. Provides that, if an act of assembly is passed by the 2022 Session of the General Assembly that creates a license that authorizes the licensee to cultivate retail marij...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Special lifetime hunting and fishing licenses; volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel. Qualifies volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel who have completed three consecutive years of service to obtain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB754 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB975 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Transportation; data on wildlife carcass removal sites. Directs the Department of Transportation to collect and publish annually on its website the sites of wildlife carcass removals from interstate, primary, and secondary roads complet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; required contract provisions; prohibition on participation in boycott of Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract of more than $10,000 certain provisions, outlined in the bill, related to partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
