Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HR96
Introduced
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Passed
3/8/22
Commending the Rustburg High School girls' volleyball team. Commending the Rustburg High School girls' volleyball team.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HR97
Introduced
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Passed
3/8/22
Commending the Rustburg High School softball team. Commending the Rustburg High School softball team.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HR98
Introduced
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Passed
3/8/22
Commending the Honorable Edward T. Scott.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HR99
Introduced
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Passed
3/8/22
Commending the Arthritis Foundation Virginia Chapter.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1
Introduced
11/15/21
Refer
11/15/21
Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2025. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees for family and medical leave. Funding for the program is provided through premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning in 2024. The amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed 80 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted annually to reflect changes in the statewide average weekly wage. The measure caps the duration of paid leave at 12 weeks in any application year. The bill provides self-employed individuals the option of participating in the program.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB10
Introduced
12/8/21
Refer
12/8/21
Termination of power of attorney; conviction of agent for certain offenses. Provides that a power of attorney terminates when, subsequent to the execution of the power of attorney, the agent is convicted of a crime wherein the principal is the victim of such offense.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB100
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/20/22
Engrossed
1/24/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services licensed programs; cardiopulmonary resuscitation for program participants. Allows employees of programs licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services who are certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation to comply with a program participant's valid written order not to resuscitate in the event of cardiac and respiratory arrest if the valid written order not to resuscitate is included in the program participant's individualized service plan. The bill directs the Department to develop and distribute to providers guidance regarding compliance with a program participant's valid written order not to resuscitate by program employees certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services licensed programs; cardiopulmonary resuscitation for program participants. Allows employees of programs licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services who are certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation to comply with a program participant's valid written order not to resuscitate in the event of cardiac and respiratory arrest if the valid written order not to resuscitate is included in the program participant's individualized service plan. The bill directs the Department to develop and distribute to providers guidance regarding compliance with a program participant's valid written order not to resuscitate by program employees certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB101
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Engrossed
1/28/22
Engrossed
1/31/22
Refer
2/18/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/2/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Retail sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Extends from 2022 to 2025 the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for printing purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so long as such material is distributed outside of the Commonwealth. Retail sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Extends from 2022 to 2025 the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for printing purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so long as such material is distributed outside of the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB102
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/19/22
Engrossed
1/24/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/7/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Criminal acts committed during a close pursuit; arrest warrant. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer makes an arrest without a warrant when in close pursuit and such arrest is made beyond the boundary of the county or city from which the arrestee fled, then the law-enforcement officer shall procure a warrant from the magistrate serving the county or city wherein the arrest was made, charging the accused with the offense committed in the county or city from which he fled and any offense committed during the close pursuit in the county or city where such offense was committed. Under current law, such officer would not be able to obtain a warrant from the magistrate serving the county or city wherein the arrest was made for a criminal act committed during the close pursuit beyond the boundary of the county or city from which the arrestee fled. Criminal acts committed during a close pursuit; arrest warrant. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer makes an arrest without a warrant when in close pursuit and such arrest is made beyond the boundary of the county or city from which the arrestee fled, then the law-enforcement officer shall procure a warrant from the magistrate serving the county or city wherein the arrest was made, charging the accused with the offense committed in the county or city from which he fled and any offense committed during the close pursuit in the county or city where such offense was committed. Under current law, such officer would not be able to obtain a warrant from the magistrate serving the county or city wherein the arrest was made for a criminal act committed during the close pursuit beyond the boundary of the county or city from which the arrestee fled.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB103
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/2/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Shipping and Logistics Headquarters Grant Program. Updates some provisions of the Shipping and Logistics Headquarters Grant Program to reflect changes in the agreement between the Commonwealth and a qualified company.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB104
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification Elimination of mandatory minimum sentences; modification of sentence to mandatory minimum term of confinement for felony offenses; report. Except for aggravated murder of a law-enforcement officer, eliminates all mandatory minimum sentences of confinement from the Code of Virginia. The bill directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to evaluate the feasibility of resentencing persons previously convicted of a felony offense that was punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement and to report its findings by November 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB105
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
2/22/22
Chapters 45 and 51 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I; retroactive and prospective effect. Provides that the provisions of Chapters 45 and 51 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I, shall be given retroactive and prospective effect. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not create any cause of action for damages against the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions, nor shall it form the basis for relief in any habeas corpus proceeding or appellate proceeding. Chapters 45 and 51 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I; retroactive and prospective effect. Provides that the provisions of Chapters 45 and 51 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, Special Session I, shall be given retroactive and prospective effect. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not create any cause of action for damages against the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions, nor shall it form the basis for relief in any habeas corpus proceeding or appellate proceeding.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB106
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/19/22
Engrossed
1/24/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Retired circuit and district court judges under recall; evaluation; qualification by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee for Courts of Justice. Requires that retired district court judges sitting as substitutes be found qualified every three years by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee for Courts of Justice instead of authorized by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The bill also requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to prepare and distribute an evaluation form for each circuit and district court retired judge who has requested to be called upon to sit in recall during his final year of the three-year period following qualification. The bill further requires that the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia annually prepare and transmit a report including such evaluations conducted that year to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee for Courts of Justice by the first day of the next regular session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB107
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Marijuana tax; revenue allocations. Reallocates revenues from the state marijuana tax so that the 30 percent currently allocated to the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Fund would be reallocated to the general fund.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB108
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
1/14/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing; report. Directs the Department of Corrections to convene a work group to study the use of restorative housing within state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers. The bill directs the Department to facilitate confidential interviews between work group members and at least 25 persons currently incarcerated in a state correctional facility who are currently or who have within the past 12 months been placed in restorative housing, provided that such persons are not the subject of or involved in pending litigation with the Department, and confidential interviews with existing staff and facility officials as requested by the work group. The bill requires the work group to submit its findings and recommendations, including how to safely reduce or end the use of restorative housing that lasts longer than 14 days, to the General Assembly by December 1, 2022. Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing; report. Directs the Department of Corrections to convene a work group to study the use of restorative housing within state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers. The bill directs the Department to facilitate confidential interviews between work group members and at least 25 persons currently incarcerated in a state correctional facility who are currently or who have within the past 12 months been placed in restorative housing, provided that such persons are not the subject of or involved in pending litigation with the Department, and confidential interviews with existing staff and facility officials as requested by the work group. The bill requires the work group to submit its findings and recommendations, including how to safely reduce or end the use of restorative housing that lasts longer than 14 days, to the General Assembly by December 1, 2022.