| VA | SB490 | Engross 50% | Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Requires each school board to provide at least four specialized student support positions per 1,000 students. Under current law, each school board i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-17 Conference report agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB17 | Pass | Employment of retired law-enforcement officers; exemption from certain training requirements. Provides that the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall exempt a law-enforcement officer who has demonstrated sensitivity to cultura... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-27 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0704) |
| VA | SB48 | Pass | Commonwealth Council on Aging; reports. Requires the Commonwealth Council on Aging to submit to the Governor, General Assembly, and Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services by October 1 of each year an electronic report regarding the activiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| VA | HB338 | Pass | Retirement and taxation; obsolete and not set out sections. Sets out a section in Title 51.1 (Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement) that is currently carried by reference only. The bill also repeals three obsolete sections in Title 58.1 (Taxation). The... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| VA | HB917 | Pass | Aging services; allocation of resources; individuals with the greatest economic need. Provides that in allocating resources for aging services, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (i) shall prioritize providing services to those with... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | SB70 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; employer contributions. Separates the employer contribution for Virginia Retirement System (VRS) employers participating in the Hybrid Retirement Plan into defined benefit and defined contribution components. The bill requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) |
| VA | HB96 | Pass | Public guardian and conservator program; decennial review of staff-to-client ratios; report. Directs the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (the Department) to decennially review the ideal range of staff-to-client ratios for local and re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| VA | SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards of Quality; specialized student support. Requires each school board to provide at least four specialized student support positions per 1,000 students. Under current law, each school board is required to provide at least three such positions... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-12 Continued to 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 pursuant to HJR455 |
| VA | HB473 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; employer contributions. Separates the employer contribution for Virginia Retirement System (VRS) employers participating in the Hybrid Retirement Plan into defined benefit and defined contribution components. The bill requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009) |
| VA | SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales by pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory and licensing st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-01 To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB507 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; benefits for certain local law-enforcement employees. Requires localities to use the 1.85 percent multiplier for determining the annual retirement allowance for deputy sheriffs for service earned on or after July 1, 2023. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-25 Tabled in Appropriations (19-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; enhanced retirement benefits for juvenile detention specialists. Requires each political subdivision participating in the Virginia Retirement System and each county or city participating in the Virginia Retirement System to provide retireme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office. Directs the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services to establish a Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office within the Department to (i) assist members of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and local retirement systems; fossil fuel divestment; report. Requires the Virginia Retirement System and local retirement systems to divest from fossil fuel companies by January 1, 2027. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Open captioning at movie theaters. Requires all movie theaters, including outdoor theaters such as drive-in theaters, that have four or more screens and are open to the general public to provide open captioning at least twice per week on any film tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; hazardous duty pay. Provides that service in the Fire and Rescue Department of the Virginia Air National Guard shall be treated as service in a hazardous position for purposes of the hazardous duty supplement or increased retirement multipl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | HB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians; information required. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to develop and provide training for court-appoi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and local retirement systems; fossil fuel divestment; report. Requires the Virginia Retirement System and local retirement systems to divest from fossil fuel companies by January 1, 2027. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-10 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; law-enforcement officers; death before retirement. Provides that when a member of the State Police Officers' Retirement System or the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System or a local law-enforcement officer who is eligible for similar be... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09 Stricken from docket by Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Pensions; loss of benefits for certain felony convictions. Provides that a law-enforcement officer shall not lose his benefits in any retirement system administered by the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System upon being convicted of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09 Stricken from docket by Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-09 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investiga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08 To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Provides that if a retired law-enforcement officer was employed by a local school division as a school security officer on January 1, 2020, and had a b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; increased retirement allowance for certain judges. Increases, for the purposes of determining benefits provided under the Judicial Retirement System, the retirement multiplier from 1 percent to 1.7 percent. The increase wo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; eligibility. Adds sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles and conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the membership of the Virginia Law... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-01 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Human Resource Management; repeal cultural competency training. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Human Resource Management establish cultural competency training for state employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-25 Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory judicial retirement age. Increases the mandatory judicial retirement age from 73 to 75. This increase in mandatory retirement age includes judges subject to mandatory retirement during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly and al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-19 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (12-Y 3-N) |