| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Conformity with the Internal Revenue Code; cannabis licensees. Deconforms from federal law, as it applies to Virginia medical and recreational cannabis licensees, the prohibition on a deduction or credit for any amount paid or incurred during the tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Retail sale of cannabis products by certain pharmaceutical Retail sale of cannabis products by certain pharmaceutical processors; sunset. Allows certain pharmaceutical processors to, under the oversight of the Board of Pharmacy, sell cannabis product...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; statewide strategic plan; speech-language pathologists. Requires the Department to develop and maintain a statewide strategic plan for recruiting and retaining speech-language pathologists that, at a minimum, (i) analyze data...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments. Authorizes localities to, by ordinance, authorize their local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices in certain locations named in the ordinance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1099 | Intro
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax; use of revenues for construction or renovation of schools. Allows any county or city to levy a local general retail sales tax and a local use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent as determined by its governing b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting deer; use of .22 caliber rifle authorized. Hunting deer; use of .22 caliber rifle authorized. Authorizes the use of a rifle equipped with .22 caliber centerfire ammunition for hunting big game. Current Department of Wildlife Resources regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal holidays; Clerk of Court Day. Establishes the second Friday of August as a state holiday, in recognition of the clerks of the courts of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Commercial sex trafficking, prostitution, etc.; mistake of age defense. Provides that a defendant's ignorance of the victim's age, the victim's misrepresentation of his age, or the defendant's belief that the victim was an adult shall not be raised a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Packaging Stewardship Program and Fund; established. Establishes the Packaging Stewardship Program (the Program), administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. Under the Program, a producer that sells products with packaging materials in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny and certain property crimes; threshold; penalty. Decreases from $1,000 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill decreases the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuing care providers; requirements for providers; complaint process; report. Requires continuing care providers to include in continuing care contracts between the provider and residents of a continuing care retirement community a description of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; reimbursement of costs. Requires the General Assembly to establish in the general appropriation act a reimbursement plan to reimburse counties and cities, fully and annually, for the cost of conducting absentee voting in the locality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Building service employees; transition period. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers by local ordinance or resolution. For example, such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of controlled substances; residue. Provides that for the purposes of the crime of possession of controlled substances, "controlled substance" does not include mere residue of any substance that is not a usable quantity or a countable dosag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | Public education; parental rights; access to certain Public education; parental rights; access to certain facilities and accommodations; instructional content; bullying. Declares that the parent of any student enrolled in a public elementary or secon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Exempts food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products (the grocery tax) from all state, regional, and local sales ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; restrictions on expenditure of funds related to family planning services. Prioritizes the types of entities to which the Department of Health provides grants for family planning services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory and licensing structure for such retail market and for the cultivation, manufacture, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of canines in correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer, jail officer, or other employee of a state, local, or juvenile correctional facility to use a canine, except where there is an imminent threat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund; established; report. Establishes the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund to provide grants for projects that reduce vehicle crashes involving wildlife and improve habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. High ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; restoration of political rights upon release from incarceration; certain adjudications. Provides that any person who loses his political rights as a result of a felony conviction shall be invested with those rights upon his releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Law-enforcement officers; retired law-enforcement officers; carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area. Exempts any law-enforcement officer from the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB860 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher Training Corps; report. Establishes the Teacher Training Corps for the purpose of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students who obtain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit unions; expansion of field of membership to underserved areas. Authorizes a credit union to expand its field of membership to include individuals or organizations in one or more underserved areas to the same extent, and subject to the same con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Guardianship and conservatorship; periodic review hearings. Requires a schedule for periodic review hearings in the order of appointment of a guardian or conservator to be set by a court, unless the court makes a determination that such hearings are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB201 | Intro
Sine Die | In-person instruction; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that any school board does not provide the option of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student, the parent of any such student who wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Public school buses; display of advertising; hiring of school bus drivers in the local school division. Permits any local school board, notwithstanding any regulation to the contrary, to display decals, posters, and stickers on the sides and rear of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB732 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; debt collection; transcripts and diplomas. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from (i) refusing to provide a transcript or diploma for a current or former student on the grounds that the student...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Hospitals; regulations; visitation; individuals infected with COVID-19. Directs the Board of Health to include in regulations governing hospitals a provision prohibiting hospitals from restricting in any way the ability of a patient who has tested po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibited conduct; ownership of certain securities prohibited. Prohibits members of the General Assembly from owning any security issued by a public service corporation, or the parent, affiliate, or subsi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Damage to motor vehicles; 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. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to willfully break,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator; Human Trafficking Victim Support Certification Program; victim service providers. Requires all victim service providers working or volunteering for a treatment program for victims of human trafficking, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides for a referendum at the November 8, 2022, general election to approve or reject an amendment that would provide for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil action for the deprivation of rights; duties and liabilities of certain employers. Creates a civil cause of action for the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities pursuant to the constitutions and laws of the United States and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for the diagnosis of and treatment for infertility and standard fertility preservation services. Requires health insurance policies, subscription contracts, and health care plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis and tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas Elections; electronic return of voted military-overseas ballots; pilot program. Directs the Commissioner of Elections to establish and supervise a pilot program by which an overseas voter who is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of confidential informants in drug-related investigations. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy for the use of confidential informants in drug-related investigations and to include in such model policy t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits any candidate from soliciting or accepting a contribution from any public service corporation or any political action committee established and administered by such a corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Portsmouth; recall of elective officers. Makes various changes to the City of Portsmouth's process for recall of an elective officer, including (i) applying provisions to an officer who has been appointed to fill an elective office, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency laws; powers and duties of Governor; executive orders. Limits the Governor's powers as the Director of Emergency Management by requiring that emergency rules, regulations, and executive orders be objectively necessary and required to contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Institutions of higher education; immunity from disciplinary action in certain cases involving a good faith report of an act of sexual violence. Includes the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors among the governing boards of public instituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB181 | 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] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management service districts; rate of taxation. Provides that if a locality located within a stormwater management service district requires, by ordinance, that certain property owners maintain private stormwater management facilities, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; curricula and instruction including inherently divisive concepts prohibited. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal to ensure that no curriculum utilized or instruction delivered in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Local correctional facilities and lock-ups; transfer of individuals in need of behavioral health or developmental services. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to establish minimum standards for identification and care of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration permitted up to and including the day of the election. Repeals a provision that would permit any person who is qualified to register to vote to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election, n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000 to consider, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan, adopting a heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses; exclusion of evidence. Removes the provisions stating that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) with an expired registration sticker prior to the first day of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
