| HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, whereby the parent of any individual who is a residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis. Replaces the term "marijuana" with the term "cannabis" throughout the Cannabis Control Act. The bill also replaces the terms "botanical cannabis" and "cannabis" with the term "medical cannabis" throughout the sections of the Code of Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB543 | Intro
Sine Die | State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties; attorney visitation of clients. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to develop and establish minimum standards for ensuring that attorneys have sufficient opportunities to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB398 | 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 |
| HB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Window tinting; vehicle stop. Removes the prohibition on a law-enforcement officer from stopping a motor vehicle for a violation of provisions related to window tinting and the prohibition of evidence discovered or obtained at such stop from being ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax deduction; teaching material expenses. Provides an income tax deduction beginning in taxable year 2022 for the lesser of $500 or the actual purchase price of teaching materials purchased by a teacher and used in teaching Virginia public pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Child labor; tobacco farms; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from employing a child under the age of 18 to work in direct contact with tobacco plants or dried tobacco leaves unless (i) the owner of the farm or other location at which such work is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Mining and processing of certain minerals and elements; study; permitting. Directs the Secretaries of Natural and Historic Resources, Health and Human Resources, and Commerce and Trade to convene a work group to study the mining and processing of cop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonwealth College Completion Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Commonwealth College Completion Fund (the Fund) and Program (the Program) for the purpose of administering funds to students enrolled as full-time or part-time students at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction contracts; requirement to submit list of subcontractors; penalty. Requires all bidders or offerors on contracts for construction of $250,000 or more to submit a list of subcontractors intended to be used ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited discrimination; national origin. Provides that a landlord may not discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges with respect to the rental of a dwelling unit, or in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | State parks; free entry for veterans. Establishes a Veteran's Passport program for veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States or members of the Virginia National Guard that entitles the bearer to enter state parks in the Commonwealth without t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB535 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher compensation; at or above national average. Requires that public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. The bill requires state funding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Illegal gambling and unlawful gaming; Illegal Gambling and Unlawful Gaming Investigation Unit; penalties. Increases criminal penalties for various violations of illegal gambling and unlawful gaming. The bill also establishes the Illegal Gambling and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacant building registration. Allows cities and certain towns to require annual registration by the owners of buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months or more and that may endanger the public health, safety, or welfare. Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| HB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax credit; automated external defibrillator. Creates a one-time, individual income tax credit of up to $1,200 for the purchase of an automated external defibrillator that is placed in the taxpayer's vehicle. The credit may be claimed during taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Consumer Protection Act; certain disclosure in advertising required. Provides that is a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction to fail to disclose in any advertisement for g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; penalty; state tax deduction. Requires Paid sick leave; penalty; state tax deduction. Requires employers, as defined in the bill, to provide 40 hours of paid sick leave, prorated to reflect the average number of hours worked per week...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB1275 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Credential Registry; established. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to create the Virginia Credential Registry for the purpose of ensuring that the general public has access to essential information about all educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB512 | Intro
Sine Die | COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professions and any reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Facilities for civilly committed sexually violent predators; reports to the Commonwealth's designated protection and advocacy system. Adds persons who are civilly committed sexually violent predators to the categories of persons for whom the Commonwe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB899 | Intro
Sine Die | Aboveground storage tanks; Hazardous Substance Aboveground Storage Tank Fund; civil penalties. Directs the State Water Control Board to regulate aboveground storage tanks that measure more than 250 gallons in capacity and are used to contain hazardou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Literary Fund; loans; application Literary Fund; loans; application process; maximum loan amounts; rates of interest; closing costs; waiting lists. Makes several changes to the provisions relating to loans from the Literary Fund to finance the constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Education; local school boards; instruction on climate change. Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with environmental groups and other relevant state agencies such as the Department of Environmental Quality and the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Water quality; consideration of economic or social development. Requires the State Water Control Board to analyze the economic or social impact on residents who and communities that have historically been economically or socially disadvantaged when c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB328 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; retail privatization of government stores. Provides for the issuance of a "package store" license to authorize the retail sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. The bill provides that persons holding a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB672 | Intro
Sine Die | Sexual abuse of animals; penalty. Provides that any person who knowingly (i) engages in sexual contact with an animal; (ii) causes another person by force, threat, or intimidation to engage in sexual contact with an animal; (iii) advertises, solicits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes the localities in Planning District 23 to establish a traffic control device violation monitoring system imposing monetary liability on the operator of a motor vehicle for failure to com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1036 | Intro
Sine Die | Local school boards; requirement for students to wear masks or other face coverings; evidentiary substantiation. Prohibits any local school board from requiring any student enrolled at a public elementary or secondary school in the local school divis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Human trafficking training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish standards for law-enforcement personnel regarding trauma-informed training for the recognition, prevention, and reporting of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; sales conducted on licensed premises. Provides that any reasonable markup imposed by the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority on spirits sold at a government store established on a distil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Expunged criminal records; use in civil action. Allows any party to a civil action filed arising out of or relating to a criminal charge wherein criminal records have been expunged or a petition to expunge such records is pending to file a motion for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB701 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; local building codes and regulations; energy efficiency and conservation standards. Provides that the Uniform Statewide Building Code (the Building Code) shall not supersede the building code provisions and regulation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; clean energy mandates; transitioning Electric utilities; clean energy mandates; transitioning workers; New Virginia Economy Act. Establishes a moratorium, effective January 1, 2023, on approval by any state agency or political sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; point-based program for prime contractors. Provides that when an awarded contract includes a small business subcontracting plan, the prime contractor shall be required to report compliance with its small business subco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification containing photograph Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election; availability of absentee voting in person; return of absentee ballots....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; membership. Makes mandatory instead of discretionary the provisions that the members of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority selected by the Governor to represent the Northern Virginia Transportation District and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the authority of the Governor to issue an executive order declaring a state of emergency that restricts, limits, or prohibits otherwise lawful action by a private...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; membership. Changes the membership of the Virginia-Israel Advisory Board by replacing the president of the Jewish Community Federation serving the Northern Virginia Region with the president of the Northern Virginia Je...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| HB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Trust Fund; recommendations for increase in allocation of funds; certain low-income and moderate-income families. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene a stakeholder work group to determine an appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Packaging Stewardship Program and Fund; Stewardship Advisory Committee; established. Establishes the Packaging Stewardship Program, administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. Under the Program, a producer that sells products with packag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Property Owners' Association Act; use of electronic means for meetings and voting. Provides that reasonable accommodations shall be made to allow a member of the board of directors of a property owners' association to attend a meeting by telephone or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; permanent absentee voter list; annual notice required; reasons for removal. Requires general registrars to send, by December 15 of each year, notice to each voter enrolled on the permanent absentee voter list that the voter is curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB803 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary education; school boards and employees; promotion of diversity and respect. Requires each local school board and employee thereof to promote (i) diversity and respect, with the understanding that all individuals are cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation safety funding. Provides that for any year in which there is a surplus, the Governor shall include in his proposed budget an appropriation of 10 percent of such surplus for the Transportation Safety Fund, created by the bill, for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Removes the authority of any school board to deem any non-school zone building or property that it owns or leases where employees of such school board are regularly present for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Health; evidence-based best practices for opioid-related emergencies in the emergency department. Requires hospitals to establish and implement policies and protocols consistent with evidence-based best practices for opioid-related emer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | Lane filtering; motorcycles. Authorizes the operator of a two-wheeled motorcycle to pass another vehicle that is stopped or traveling at no more than 10 miles per hour in the same lane, provided that there are at least two lanes of travel in each dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Transportation Committee |
