Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB38
Introduced
12/27/21
Refer
12/27/21
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Capitol Square Preservation Council; powers and duties; review and approval of plans for changes to artifacts contained within the Capitol Building. Grants the Capitol Square Preservation Council the authority to review and approve all plans or proposals for alterations, improvements, additions, or renovations to, or other disposition of, any monuments, statuary, artwork, or other historical artifacts contained within the Capitol Building, including within the old and new Senate chambers, the old and new halls of the House of Delegates, and the Rotunda.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB380
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Exempts food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products (the grocery tax) from all state, regional, and local sales taxes. The bill dedicates state sales tax revenue to provide a supplemental school payment to counties and cities. For fiscal year 2023, the payment is the county or city's fiscal year 2022 distribution of revenue from the grocery tax. For fiscal year 2024 and after, the payment is the previous year's payment multiplied by the county or city's local sales tax index, defined in the bill as the ratio by which sales tax revenues in a county or city for the current year exceed the previous year's revenues.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB381
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Income tax; military retirement income subtraction. Exempts, beginning with taxable year 2022, up to $40,000 of military retirement income of a veteran who is at least 55 years old and who was honorably discharged after active duty service in the Armed Forces of the United States, its reserve components, or the National Guard of Virginia or any other state.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB382
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
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 would apply only to judges appointed on or after July 1, 2022, who are participants in the hybrid retirement program, and who are at least age 55 at the time of appointment.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB383
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/17/22
Engrossed
1/20/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/9/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Credit life insurance and credit accident and sickness insurance; adjustment of rates; requirement for hearing. Removes the requirement that the State Corporation Commission conduct a hearing prior to determining the actual loss ratio for each form of insurance and adjusting the prima facie rates. Under the bill, after the Commission has determined the actual loss ratio and prima facie rates, it will provide notice of such ratio and rates and provide an opportunity for a hearing.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB384
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/22/22
Department of Education; Statewide Learning Management System established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Statewide Learning Management System (VaLMS). The VaLMS shall be available to each public school in the Commonwealth. The bill allows school boards to utilize the full capacity of the VaLMS as an alternative to a locally funded learning management system. Department of Education; Statewide Learning Management System established. Directs the Department of Education to establish the Statewide Learning Management System (VaLMS). The VaLMS shall be available to each public school in the Commonwealth. The bill allows school boards to utilize the full capacity of the VaLMS as an alternative to a locally funded learning management system.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB385
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
2/21/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/2/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
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.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB386
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/18/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Enrolled
2/28/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
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, including the requirement that the affiliated group filed on the same basis for the preceding 20 years. The option would be available only to a group with at least one affiliate that is a bank exempt from filing a Virginia corporate income tax return. Current law requires a group of corporations to apply to the Tax Commissioner for permission to change the basis of the type of return filed and to meet certain specified requirements in order for permission to be granted.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB387
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/9/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Charter; Town of Port Royal; town council; membership. Reduces the Town of Port Royal's council membership from seven members to five members, reduces the number of council members needed to call a special meeting from four members to three members, and reduces the number of council members needed for a quorum from four members to three members.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB388
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/17/22
Engrossed
1/19/22
Refer
2/21/22
County manager plan of government; independent policing auditor. Allows the governing body of any county with the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to appoint an independent policing auditor. The independent policing auditor shall support any law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by the governing body and shall have all the powers of the law-enforcement civilian oversight body, to the extent such powers are delegated to the independent policing auditor by the oversight body. The independent policing auditor shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body. County manager plan of government; independent policing auditor. Allows the governing body of any county with the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to appoint an independent policing auditor. The independent policing auditor shall support any law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by the governing body and shall have all the powers of the law-enforcement civilian oversight body, to the extent such powers are delegated to the independent policing auditor by the oversight body. The independent policing auditor shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB389
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/24/22
Engrossed
1/27/22
Refer
2/23/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/7/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Vetoed
4/11/22
Support of parents by child; repeal. Repeals the provision of the Code of Virginia requiring an adult child to assist in providing for the support and maintenance of his or her parent, when such parent requires assistance. Under current law, failure to comply with this provision is punishable as a misdemeanor with a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding 12 months or both. Support of parents by child; repeal. Repeals the provision of the Code of Virginia requiring an adult child to assist in providing for the support and maintenance of his or her parent, when such parent requires assistance. Under current law, failure to comply with this provision is punishable as a misdemeanor with a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding 12 months or both.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB39
Introduced
12/27/21
Refer
12/27/21
Report Pass
1/18/22
Engrossed
1/21/22
Refer
2/21/22
Elections; form of ballot; party identification of candidates on ballots; constitutional officers. Extends to elections for constitutional officers the requirement that ballots identify the nominating political party for party candidates and identify independent candidates as such. Currently, this requirement applies only to federal, statewide, and General Assembly elections.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB390
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Elections; conduct of elections; annual post-election audits. Requires that each local electoral board and general registrar conduct a post-election audit annually of at least one fifth of all ballot scanner machines in use in the locality such that all ballot scanner machines in use in the locality are audited at least once every five years. The bill requires the local electoral board and general registrar to submit a report on the results of each audit to the State Board of Elections. The bill removes the requirement that annual audits be risk-limiting audits.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB391
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Refer
2/24/22
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 structure for such retail market and for the cultivation, manufacture, and wholesale of marijuana and marijuana products to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows certain pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors, pending establishment of the retail market, to cultivate, manufacture, and sell to persons 21 years of age or older cannabis products. The bill also relocates and modifies numerous criminal provisions regarding marijuana offenses. The bill has staggered effective dates. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapters 550 and 551 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I, but makes numerous modifications to the provisions of the 2021 legislation related to licensure, criminal penalties, expungement, regulation of certain hemp products, local regulation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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 structure for such retail market and for the cultivation, manufacture, and wholesale of marijuana and marijuana products to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows certain pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors, pending establishment of the retail market, to cultivate, manufacture, and sell to persons 21 years of age or older cannabis products. The bill also relocates and modifies numerous criminal provisions regarding marijuana offenses. The bill has staggered effective dates. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapters 550 and 551 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I, but makes numerous modifications to the provisions of the 2021 legislation related to licensure, criminal penalties, expungement, regulation of certain hemp products, local regulation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB392
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/24/22
Engrossed
1/27/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Copies of orders to counsel. Provides that the clerk of the court shall provide a copy of the appointment order of a qualified expert to an indigent defendant or his attorney and to the appointed expert. The bill also provides that the chief judge of each juvenile and domestic relations district court may provide for an alternative means of copying and distributing certain juvenile investigative reports or evaluations to counsel.