| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Requires the court, in petitions for visitation filed by the grandparent of a child where either (i) the parent is the grandparent's child and is deceased, incarcerated, or incapacitated, or has had his parental r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; elder abuse crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) financial exploitation of mentally incapacitated persons and (ii) abuse and neglect of incapacitated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of certain naturally occurring hallucinogens or psychoactive substances; civil penalty. Provides that any person 21 years of age or older who knowingly or intentionally possesses peyote, ibogaine, psilocybin, or psilocyn shall be punished ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history background checks; children's residential facilities. Provides that a person may be hired for and may begin compensated employment at a children's residential facility prior to receipt of the results of the criminal history backgroun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses; Internet orders and shipments. Allows the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to include in its agency agreements with licensed distillers provisions that allow distillers to sell spirits and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 1-N) |
| HB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance and advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications. Broadens the scope of campaign advertisement disclosure requirements to cover electioneering communications, as defined in the bill. The bill also defines t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 12-N) |
| HB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Custodial interrogation of a child; advisement of rights. Requires that prior to any custodial interrogation of a child by a law-enforcement officer, the child and, if no attorney is present and if no exception to the requirement that the child's par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Probation violations; periods of probation and suspension; technical violations. Provides that the court may fix the period of probation and the period of suspension for up to the statutory maximum period for which the defendant might originally have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) |
| HB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from liability. Repeals the provision that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assisted living facility, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) |
| HB855 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan approval. Allows a planning commission to extend the 60-day period during which it makes a recommendation to the governing body on a comprehensive plan amendment if an applicant agrees to such extension. The bill also extends from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB1118 | Intro
Sine Die | Earned sentence credits. Provides that sentence credits may be earned by any person committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections (the Department), regardless of whether the person is confined in a state or local correctional facility. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) |
| HB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil action for malicious prosecution; self-defense. Creates a civil cause of action for malicious prosecution in any case in which a criminal defendant charged with aggravated murder, murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, or volu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-28
Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) |
| HB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for treatment of PCOS, if diagnose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Tabled in Commerce and Energy (15-Y 7-N) |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishment of speed limits; local authority. Authorizes localities to reduce speed limits on any highway in the locality, provided that such speed limit is indicated by lawfully placed signs. Current law authorizes localities to reduce the speed l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of Health and local health director qualifications; local variances. Requires the Commissioner of Health to possess a Doctor of Public Health degree, a Master of Public Health degree, or a doctoral degree in the area of public health in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Mini-trucks; definition; use on certain highways. Defines a "mini-truck" and classifies it as a utility vehicle. The bill provides that mini-trucks may be operated on any highway in the Commonwealth with a speed limit of 55 miles per hour or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (11-Y 0-N) |
| HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; procedure for requesting records. Adds a requirement that a request for public records made pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall be made in writing and sent by the requester to the public body...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | State health plan; insulin discount program; health insurance; cost sharing for insulin. Requires the state health plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management to offer an insulin discount program that allows individuals other than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Tabled in Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) |
| HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of the Attorney General; debt collection; fees. Limits the fee for collection of student debt on behalf of a public institution of higher education to 15 percent of the amount due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for breast cancer screenings; mammography facilities to provide extended hours. Expands health insurance coverage requirements that currently include only mammogram screenings to include diagnostic mammograms, breast ultras...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Tabled in Commerce and Energy (15-Y 7-N) |
| HB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; closed meetings; privacy of witnesses in law-enforcement administrative investigations. Provides that a public body may hold a closed meeting to protect the privacy of an individual in administrative or disciplina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia College Savings Plan; Virginia College Equity Foundation and Fund. Directs the Board of the Virginia College Savings Plan to invest the surplus from the fund for prepaid tuition contracts, if any, in the Virginia College Equity Fund (the Fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; proton radiation therapy coverage. Provides that if proton radiation therapy is recommended by an enrollee's insurance policy, subscription contract, or health care plan beneficiary's health care provider as the preferred radiation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Tabled in Commerce and Energy (15-Y 7-N) |
| HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Human donor milk bank licensing; payment of medical assistance and health insurance coverage. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to include a provision for the payment of medical assistance for pasteurized human donor milk acquired from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; non-skilled home care organizations; triennial audit requirement. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations to exempt non-skilled home care organizations that do not participate in government-funded programs from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions; meeting. Changes the definition of "meeting" for purposes of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to mean an assemblage of at least a quorum of the members of a public body. Under current law, a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; identification of certain provisions regarding employee welfare benefit plans; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to identify each state statutory and regulatory provision from which an employee welfare ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) |
| HB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; construction evaluation of impact of types of electricity. Requires all departments, agencies, and institutions of the Commonwealth, prior to construction of new structures, to evaluate the construction for the potenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| HB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for prostate cancer screening. Updates the current mandated requirement for health care coverage companies (including health insurers and HMOs), the health care coverage plan for state employees, and the state plan for Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Tabled in Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) |
| HB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for proton therapy. Requires any health insurer, corporation, or health maintenance organization issuing an insurance policy, subscription contract, or health care plan to provide coverage for physician-prescribed proton th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Tabled in Commerce and Energy (15-Y 7-N) |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school libraries; printed and audiovisual materials; selection, evaluation, checkout, and removal procedures. Requires each local school board to adopt policies that address the selection and evaluation of all printed and audiovisual materials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal proceedings; evidence of defendant's mental condition. Repeals provisions permitting the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert testimony, if such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| HB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Resources Authority; Resilient Virginia Revolving Loan Fund. Creates the Resilient Virginia Revolving Loan Fund, for which sums are appropriated by the General Assembly, and that is administered and managed by the Virginia Resources Authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Human rights and fair housing; religious organizations; Human rights and fair housing; religious organizations; promotion of religious principles. Provides that nothing in the Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits a religious corporation, association, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal records; sealing of records; repeal. Repeals provisions not yet effective allowing for the automatic and petition-based sealing of police and court records for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2020, to December 31, 2021. The bill also deconforms from provisions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken from docket by Finance (20-Y 2-N) |
| SB763 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms by localities; concealed handgun permit exception. Provides that any local ordinance that prohibits the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain school board employees; dismissal; grounds; continuing contract study; report. Prohibits school board employees who are not required to hold a valid license issued by the Board of Education and public school teachers from being dismissed base...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| SB563 | Intro
Sine Die | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for acts of violence. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in cases involving a violation of the criminal laws involving an act of violence whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credit; conversion to employee ownership. Creates a nonrefundable, one-time individual and corporate income tax credit for an eligible business that (i) transfers whole or partial ownership to employees in the form of a worker cooperative,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Emergency Aid Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Student Emergency Aid Fund and Program for the purpose of distributing emergency funds to students enrolled as full-time or part-time students at public and nonprofit private instit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken from docket by Education (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Gifts of real estate; requirements. Prohibits a clerk of court from recording a deed of gift conveying real estate unless it is accompanied by a certified copy of the existing deed showing the name of the current owner of the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from two to three the maximum number of authorized general district court judges in the Twenty-second Judicial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Human Rights Act; employee safety; definition changes. Amends the definitions of "domestic worker" to exclude babysitters, nannies, caretakers, home health aides, and personal care aids; "employer" to one who employs at least three persons; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB644 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information check required to sell firearm; exception for concealed handgun permit. Provides that a person may sell a firearm through a private sale to another person if the sale of a firearm is to a person who (i) has a valid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; population thresholds for architectural and professional engineering term contracting. Decreases from 50,000 to 40,000 the population threshold for determining the maximum fees for both a single project and for the su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Estate Act; payment of funeral expenses. Changes from discretionary to mandatory the provision that any person holding a small asset of a decedent pay or deliver up to $4,000 of such asset to the undertaker or mortuary handling the funeral of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken at the request of Patron in Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) |
| HB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Purchase or use of mitigation bank credits; notification to local government. Requires a permittee that purchases or uses mitigation bank credits to notify, in writing, the chief executive officer and commissioner of the revenue of the locality in wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) |
| SB155 | 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] | 2022-01-26
Incorporated by Judiciary |
