Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1188
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Engrossed
3/9/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Board of Education; Student Advisory Board established. Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education. Board of Education; Student Advisory Board established. Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1189
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Special license plates; former members of the Virginia General Assembly. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for former members of the Virginia General Assembly bearing the legend FORMER VIRGINIA STATE LEGISLATOR.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB119
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Public-Private Competition Act. Creates the Public-Private Competition Act, which prohibits public bodies from engaging in any commercial activity, defined in the bill to mean any activity that can be performed by an existing private business. The bill creates an exemption for commercial activities that public bodies are required to perform pursuant to the Constitution of Virginia. The bill also repeals the Competitive Government Act, which requires the Governor to (i) conduct a study at least once every two years to examine whether at least three commercial activities being performed by state employees at state agencies and institutions are being accomplished in the most cost-efficient and effective manner and (ii) outsource any commercial activity for which the study determines that outsourcing may result in reduced costs or otherwise provide a measurable benefit to the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1190
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Motor vehicle sales and use tax; definition of sale price. Excludes from the sale price for determining motor vehicle sales and use tax the amount of any credit given by the seller for any motor vehicle taken as a trade-in.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1191
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Engrossed
2/28/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Marcus alert system; participation. Extends the date by which localities shall establish voluntary databases to be made available to the 9-1-1 alert system and the Marcus alert system to provide relevant mental health information and emergency contact information for appropriate response to an emergency or crisis from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2023, and provides an exemption to the requirement that localities establish protocols for local law-enforcement agencies to enter into memorandums of agreement with mobile crisis response providers regarding requests for law-enforcement back-up during mobile crisis or community care team response and minimum standards, best practices, and a system for the review and approval of protocols for law-enforcement participation in the Marcus alert system for localities with a population that is less than or equal to 40,000, so that localities with a population that is less than or equal to 40,000 may but are not required to establish such protocols. The bill also requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to include in its annual report to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees for Courts of Justice and on Health, Welfare and Institutions, the Senate Committees on the Judiciary and Education and Health, and the Behavioral Health Commission information regarding barriers to establishment of local Marcus alert programs and community care or mobile crisis teams to provide mobile crisis response in geographical areas served by community services boards or behavioral health agencies in which such programs and teams have not been established and a plan for addressing such barriers.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1192
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Marijuana cultivation facility licenses; preference for certain Virginia farmers. Provides that, if an act of assembly is passed by the 2022 Session of the General Assembly that creates a license that authorizes the licensee to cultivate retail marijuana and perform related activities, preference for the award of such licenses shall be given to farmers who have legally grown hemp in Virginia prior to October 1, 2021, and farmers from economically distressed areas in Virginia. The bill also provides that such licenses shall be issued beginning April 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1193
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Department of Medical Assistance Services; coordinated specialty care; work group established. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a work group, in coordination with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to evaluate and make recommendations to improve approaches to early psychosis and mood disorder detection approaches, make program funding recommendations, recommend a core set of standardized clinical and outcome measures, and evaluate coordinated specialty care programs in the Commonwealth. The work group is required by the bill to submit a five-year strategic plan annually to the General Assembly beginning November 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1194
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act; legislative intent; affordable housing grants. Authorizes an industrial development authority to make grants associated with the construction of affordable housing in order to promote safe and affordable housing in the Commonwealth and to benefit thereby the safety, health, welfare, and prosperity of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth. Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act; legislative intent; affordable housing grants. Authorizes an industrial development authority to make grants associated with the construction of affordable housing in order to promote safe and affordable housing in the Commonwealth and to benefit thereby the safety, health, welfare, and prosperity of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1195
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Commission on Social Media; report. Establishes the 20-member Commission on Social Media in the legislative branch to study and make recommendations on the impacts and harms to citizens caused by social media platforms hosting or amplifying content that includes threats or suggestions of physical violence or danger towards citizens, institutions, groups, associations, or physical structures of the Commonwealth by studying the impact of dangerous and violent rhetoric, threats, harassment, doxing, intimidation, misinformation, disinformation, defamation, and deceptive practices and the impact of certain practices by social media companies such as algorithmic amplification and targeted advertising on citizens. The bill requires the Commission to report annually to the General Assembly on its activities. The bill provides that the Commission will sunset on July 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1196
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Workers' compensation; domestic service employees. Provides that individuals who are engaged in providing domestic service, defined in the bill, are not excluded from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1197
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Vetoed
4/11/22
Secretariat agency responsibilities; Department of Juvenile Justice. Directs the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a stakeholder work group to determine the feasibility and benefits of transferring responsibility for the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. The bill requires the work group to submit its report containing the work group's finding by November 1, 2022, to the Chairmen of the House Committee for Courts of Justice, House Committee on Public Safety, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1198
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for cases involving criminal sexual assault. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in cases involving violations of criminal sexual assault when such crimes are committed against children. Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for cases involving criminal sexual assault. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in cases involving violations of criminal sexual assault when such crimes are committed against children.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1199
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Tobacco products tax; remote retail sales. Clarifies the provisions of the tobacco products tax on cigars and pipe tobacco sold by remote retail sellers, defined in the bill, to consumers in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that such remote retail sellers must be licensed to avoid penalties for such sales and requires such remote retail sellers to maintain records and file a monthly report to the Department of Taxation. The bill also provides that the tax may be imposed at the time of retail sale by a retail dealer or distributor and requires the remote retail seller in addition to the distributor to preserve a legible copy of each invoice of tobacco products for three years after the date of purchase and require only a remote retail seller, not a distributor, that cannot produce the required invoice information, when the excise tax is being remitted using the actual cost list method to calculate the excise tax, to provide the remote retail seller's certified actual cost list to the Department for each stock keeping unit to be offered for remote retail sale in the subsequent calendar year.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB12
Introduced
12/17/21
Refer
12/17/21
Public school buildings; entry points; limits; screening. Requires each local school board to (i) limit to the lowest feasible number the entry points in each public school building in the local school division, (ii) ensure that each individual who seeks to enter any school building in the local school division is screened with a handheld metal detector wand by a school security officer or another appropriate school board employee who is appropriately trained in such method of screening, (iii) require each such school security officer or other appropriate school board employee to implement further screening according to a protocol that it deems appropriate in any case in which the school board employee who conducts the initial screening has reason to believe that the individual who seeks to enter the school building is in possession of a weapon, and (iv) prohibit any individual from entering any school building in the local school division if the individual fails or refuses to submit to the screening required in clauses (ii) and (iii).
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB120
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/22/22
Engrossed
2/25/22
Enrolled
3/1/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Special hunting and fishing license for certain disabled veterans. Authorizes resident veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 30 percent to receive from the Department of Wildlife Resources, at no cost or a reduced cost depending on the veteran's disability rating, a lifetime license to hunt and freshwater fish. Current law authorizes the provision of such license at no cost to a veteran who is totally and permanently disabled and at half-cost to a veteran who is 70 percent disabled.