| HB112 | Pass | Commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service providers; Lifeline service. Grants authority to the State Corporation Commission to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service provider as an eligible telecommunications... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| HB677 | Pass | Posting of notices; electronic posting. Requires any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type that is required to be posted on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulletin board at the courthouse to also be poste... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0683) |
| SB478 | Pass | Capital Region Airport Commission. Authorizes the Capital Region Airport Commission to (i) make charitable donations to organizations and (ii) form or support independent foundations designed to foster an appreciation by the public of the importance ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368) |
| SB681 | Pass | Duty of in-network providers to submit claims to health insurers; Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that a knowing violation of the existing requirement for an in-network provider that provides health care services to a covered patient to su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| SB771 | Pass | Personal property tax; classification; emergency. Authorizes localities to classify for rate purposes certain vehicles that, under current law, may be classified only for valuation purposes, including certain automobiles, trucks, motor vehicles for u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0578) |
| SB353 | Pass | Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund. Allows funds in the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund to be paid to entities outlined in local shelter plans to install, maintain, or repair infrastructure for backup energy generation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| HB895 | Pass | Elections; conduct of election; election results; risk-limiting audits. Requires local electoral boards and general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, defined in the bill, under the supervision of the Department of Elections and in a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) |
| HB18 | Pass | Appointed school board members; salaries. Permits any appointed school board to pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salary procedures and no more than the salary limits provided for local governments in relevant law o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| HB574 | Pass | Wagering on historical horse racing; licensee retained funds for distribution to Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund and localities. Provides that with respect to the first 3,000 authorized terminals, 0.01 percent of the amount that a horse r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0511) |
| SB377 | Pass | Charter; Town of Vienna; elections; dates and terms. Changes the date of elections for the mayor and all councilmen from May 2022 to November 2023, with the accompanying start date changed to the first day of January 2024 and end date changed to the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| HB1155 | Pass | Sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Makes changes to the sales and use tax exemption for amplification, transmission, and distribution equipment used to provide Internet services. Under the bill, the exemption would apply to network equipmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB1256 | Pass | Charter; Town of Chase City; municipal elections. Updates the charter for the Town of Chase City to reflect the upcoming shift from May to November for municipal elections. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| SB317 | Pass | Out-of-state health care practitioners; temporary authorization to practice; licensure by reciprocity for physicians; emergency. Allows a health care practitioner licensed in another state or the District of Columbia who has submitted an application ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0464) |
| HB565 | Pass | Advanced Manufacturing Talent Investment Fund. Creates the Advanced Manufacturing Talent Investment Fund to support the General Assembly's long-term goal of supporting efforts to increase the number of new eligible credentials in advanced manufacturi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| HB1336 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; winery, farm winery, and limited brewery licensees; distribution of wine and beer. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group consisting of representatives of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| SB409 | Pass | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; effect of criminal convictions on licensure; data to be included in biennial report. Provides for consideration of certain factors to be made by any regulatory board through an individualized as... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| SB648 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for the elderly and handicapped. Provides that any locality may by ordinance accept documentation establishing eligibility for the real property tax exemption for the elderly and handicapped on a rolling basis throughout ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| HB1325 | Pass | General Powers of local governments; additional powers; Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing programs. Changes the existing authorization for local governments to finance, by ordinance, clean energy, resiliency, and stormwater... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| SB115 | Pass | Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603) |
| SB616 | Pass | Virginia Literacy Act; early student literacy; evidence-based literacy instruction; science-based reading research. Makes several changes relating to early student literacy, including requiring (i) each education preparation program offered by a publ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549) |
| HB761 | Pass | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; availability of complaint forms. Requires that a sign be posted in all state courts of the Commonwealth, in a location accessible to the public, that notes the availability of and provides instructions to obtai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) |
| SB514 | Pass | Guardianship and conservatorship of incapacitated persons. Makes several changes to the provisions of adult guardianships and conservatorships, including (i) requiring a guardian ad litem appointed to represent a respondent to a guardianship proceedi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| HB996 | Pass | Land use assessment; parcels with multiple owners. Allows the owner of a majority interest in an undivided parcel of real estate that is eligible for land use assessment to file the application on behalf of himself and for owners of any minority inte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| HB32 | Pass | Fee for solid waste disposal; Bath County. Adds Bath County to the list of counties that may by ordinance, and after a public hearing, levy a fee for the management of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB813 | Pass | Acquisition of certain military property by law-enforcement agencies. Changes the limitation on the acquisition or purchase of military property by a law-enforcement agency from firearms of .50 caliber or higher to rifles of .50 caliber or higher and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB1098 | Pass | Joint Commission on Health Care; payment of medical assistance for obesity prevention and other obesity-related services; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care (the Commission) to convene a work group to study and provide recommendation... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) |
| SB124 | Pass | Misuse of power of attorney; financial exploitation; incapacitated adults; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for an agent under a power of attorney to knowingly or intentionally engage in financial exploitation of an incapacitated adult who is ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| HB850 | Pass | Lyme disease; signage; instructional resources and materials. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation to develop and post in each state park and interstate park signage addressing the appropriate steps a visitor can take to prevent tic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| SB386 | Pass | Corporate income tax returns of affiliated corporations. Provides that, for taxable years 2023 and 2024, certain affiliated corporations may elect to switch to or from consolidated corporate income tax return filing status under certain conditions, i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417) |
| SB52 | Pass | Pro rata reimbursements for installation of certain utilities. Requires localities that adopt subdivision ordinances that permit subdividers or developers to install certain utilities to provide within that ordinance the subdivider's or developer's e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629) |
| SB187 | Pass | Accelerated stream nutrient credit release. Allows the Department of Environmental Quality to accelerate the release of nutrient credits generated by a stream restoration project based on (i) a determination that the level of risk is low, (ii) the pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) |
| SB268 | Pass | Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; transfer of custody. Provides that when a magistrate orders alternative transportation for an individual under a temporary detention order, the primary law-enforcement agency that executes th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| HB427 | Pass | Children's Services Act; parent representatives; community policy and management teams; family assessment and planning teams. Removes provisions that prohibit a parent representative from serving as a member of a community policy and management team ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| HB474 | Pass | Board for Contractors; certification of automatic fire sprinkler inspectors; exempts building officials and fire officials. Exempts building officials enforcing the Uniform Statewide Building Code and fire officials enforcing the Virginia Statewide F... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| HB769 | Pass | Department of Health; onsite sewage system pump-out oversight; certain localities. Requires the Department of Health (the Department), effective July 1, 2023, to manage and enforce onsite sewage system pump-out compliance for Accomack, Essex, Glouces... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| SB82 | Pass | City reversion; disposition of police department or sheriff's department motorcycles. Provides that when a city reverts to a town and the police department or sheriff's department of the former city ceases to exist, officers of the former city police... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385) |
| HB1330 | Pass | Companion animals; duty to identify submitted animal; microchip. Requires veterinarians, public and private animal shelters, and releasing agencies to seek to identify the lawful owners of the unidentified companion animals that are submitted to them... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0387) |
| HB831 | Pass | Fertilizer; digestate. Clarifies that a regulated product, for the purposes of fertilizer law, includes digestate. Digestate is defined in the bill as a biologically stable material derived from the process of anaerobic digestion. The bill also inclu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539) |
| HB1249 | Pass | Food donations; labeling; liability. Exempts individuals and entities that donate food and charitable organizations that accept food donations from criminal and civil liability for donating or receiving food past its best-by date or other non-safety ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) |
| SB6 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial circuit. Increases from six to seven the maximum number of authorized judges in the Thirty-first Judicial Circuit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0579) |
| SB308 | Pass | Gubernatorial appointments to boards; membership and terms. Revises the length of terms for persons appointed to several commodity and commodity-related boards within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and further standardizes the te... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| SB225 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; architectural and professional engineering term contracting; limitations. Provides that the sum of all projects performed in an architectural and professional engineering contract term shall not exceed $10 million, an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| SB385 | Pass | Local license taxes; limitation of authority. Prohibits a locality from imposing a license tax on a director of a bank or trust company that is subject to the bank franchise tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) |
| HB350 | Pass | Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue. Removes provisions that allow certain crimes relating to threats and harassment to be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if venue cannot otherwise be established and (i) the victim is t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB932 | Pass | Workers' compensation; COVID-19; health care providers. Extends from December 31, 2021, to December 31, 2022, the date by which COVID-19 causing the death or disability of a health care provider is presumed to be an occupational disease compensable u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644) |
| SB256 | Pass | Department of Military Affairs; recruitment. Authorizes the Department of Military Affairs to utilize grant funding to recruit qualified applicants for service in the Virginia National Guard. The bill states that the yearly funding amount for such re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| HB1289 | Pass | Board of Housing and Community Development; exemption for certain use and occupancy classifications from the requirements of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to consider, during the next code... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0407) |
| HB180 | Pass | Land use valuation for real estate devoted to forest use; creation of Forest Sustainability Fund. Creates the Forest Sustainability Fund, to be administered by the State Forester. Localities that have adopted a use value assessment and taxation progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB765 | Pass | Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Charitable Gaming Board; powers and duties. Changes the Charitable Gaming Board (the Board) from a policy board to an advisory board in the executive branch of state government, decreases the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| HB468 | Pass | Local and regional libraries; Botetourt County. Adds Botetourt County to the list of localities that are not required to establish a library board. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) |