Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB663
Introduced
1/19/22
Refer
1/19/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Refer
3/3/22
Report Pass
3/7/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
State plan for medical assistance services; provision for payment of telemedicine services facilitated by emergency medical services. Directs the Board of Health to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of the originating site fee to emergency medical services agencies for facilitating synchronous telehealth visits with a distant site provider delivered to a Medicaid member. The bill defines "originating site" as any location where the patient is located, including any medical care facility or office of a health care provider, the home of the patient, the patient's place of employment, or any public or private primary or secondary school or postsecondary institution of higher education at which the person to whom telemedicine services are provided is located. State plan for medical assistance services; provision for payment of telemedicine services facilitated by emergency medical services. Directs the Board of Health to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of the originating site fee to emergency medical services agencies for facilitating synchronous telehealth visits with a distant site provider delivered to a Medicaid member. The bill defines "originating site" as any location where the patient is located, including any medical care facility or office of a health care provider, the home of the patient, the patient's place of employment, or any public or private primary or secondary school or postsecondary institution of higher education at which the person to whom telemedicine services are provided is located.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB664
Introduced
1/19/22
Refer
1/19/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/9/22
Refer
2/21/22
Minor victims of sex trafficking; services. Provides that a minor engaged in prostitution or keeping, residing in, or frequenting a bawdy place shall not be proceeded upon as delinquent and shall be referred to the local department of social services for an assessment and services.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB665
Introduced
1/19/22
Refer
1/19/22
Reckless driving; involuntary manslaughter. Increases the punishment for every person convicted of reckless driving who, when he committed the offense, caused the death of another as the sole and proximate result of his reckless driving. The bill states that such person is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, punishable as a Class 5 felony. Under current law, the punishment is a Class 6 felony provided that such person who was driving recklessly was also driving without a valid operator's license due to a suspension or revocation for a moving violation. Reckless driving; involuntary manslaughter. Increases the punishment for every person convicted of reckless driving who, when he committed the offense, caused the death of another as the sole and proximate result of his reckless driving. The bill states that such person is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, punishable as a Class 5 felony. Under current law, the punishment is a Class 6 felony provided that such person who was driving recklessly was also driving without a valid operator's license due to a suspension or revocation for a moving violation.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB666
Introduced
1/19/22
Refer
1/19/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Refer
2/25/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/4/22
Enrolled
3/9/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Eminent domain; lost profits. Redefines "lost profits" for the purposes of determining just compensation in eminent domain cases. Eminent domain; lost profits. Redefines "lost profits" for the purposes of determining just compensation in eminent domain cases.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB667
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/7/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Innovative Internship Program; Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to partner with the Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment to collect and utilize data that includes the gaps that are most significant in hindering the Commonwealth from achieving its goals that its funds are intended to accomplish under the Innovative Internship Program and provides other directives to the Council and the Office to collaborate on and accomplish for the Innovative Internship Program. Innovative Internship Program; Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to partner with the Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment to collect and utilize data that includes the gaps that are most significant in hindering the Commonwealth from achieving its goals that its funds are intended to accomplish under the Innovative Internship Program and provides other directives to the Council and the Office to collaborate on and accomplish for the Innovative Internship Program.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB668
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Death with Dignity Act; penalties. Allows an adult who has been determined by an attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal condition to request medication for the purpose of ending his life in a humane and dignified manner. The bill requires that a patient's request for medication to end his life be given orally on two occasions, that such request be in writing, that such request be signed by the patient and two witnesses, and that the patient be given an express opportunity to rescind his request. The bill requires that before a patient is prescribed medication to end his life, the attending physician must (i) confirm that the patient is making an informed decision, (ii) refer the patient to a capacity reviewer if the physician is uncertain as to whether the patient is making an informed decision, (iii) refer the patient to a consulting physician for confirmation or rejection of the attending physician's diagnosis, and (iv) inform the patient that he may rescind the request at any time. The bill provides that neither a patient's request for medication to end his life in a humane and dignified manner nor his act of ingesting such medication shall have any effect upon a life, health, or accident insurance policy or an annuity contract. The bill makes it a Class 2 felony (a) to willfully and deliberately alter, forge, conceal, or destroy a patient's request, or rescission of request, for medication to end his life with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death or (b) to coerce, intimidate, or exert undue influence on a patient to request medication for the purpose of ending his life or to destroy the patient's rescission of such request with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death. Finally, the bill grants immunity from civil or criminal liability and professional disciplinary action to any person who complies with the provisions of the bill and allows health care providers to refuse to participate in the provision of medication to a patient for the purpose of ending the patient's life. Death with Dignity Act; penalties. Allows an adult who has been determined by an attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal condition to request medication for the purpose of ending his life in a humane and dignified manner. The bill requires that a patient's request for medication to end his life be given orally on two occasions, that such request be in writing, that such request be signed by the patient and two witnesses, and that the patient be given an express opportunity to rescind his request. The bill requires that before a patient is prescribed medication to end his life, the attending physician must (i) confirm that the patient is making an informed decision, (ii) refer the patient to a capacity reviewer if the physician is uncertain as to whether the patient is making an informed decision, (iii) refer the patient to a consulting physician for confirmation or rejection of the attending physician's diagnosis, and (iv) inform the patient that he may rescind the request at any time. The bill provides that neither a patient's request for medication to end his life in a humane and dignified manner nor his act of ingesting such medication shall have any effect upon a life, health, or accident insurance policy or an annuity contract. The bill makes it a Class 2 felony (a) to willfully and deliberately alter, forge, conceal, or destroy a patient's request, or rescission of request, for medication to end his life with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death or (b) to coerce, intimidate, or exert undue influence on a patient to request medication for the purpose of ending his life or to destroy the patient's rescission of such request with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death. Finally, the bill grants immunity from civil or criminal liability and professional disciplinary action to any person who complies with the provisions of the bill and allows health care providers to refuse to participate in the provision of medication to a patient for the purpose of ending the patient's life.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB669
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/14/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Refer
2/24/22
Alleged wrongdoing of law-enforcement employees. Requires all law-enforcement agencies that employ at least 10 law-enforcement officers, to ensure that, in the case of all written citizen complaints or complaints submitted in an electronic format, the agency (i) allows for the submission of citizen complaints through the agency's website or other electronic format; (ii) provides a receipt or written acknowledgment confirming the submission of the complaint to the individual filing such complaint; (iii) provides a written response to any individual who has filed a complaint indicating the complaint has been finalized, and (iv) provides notice to any individual who has filed a complaint if an investigation into a previously filed complaint has been reopened upon the submission of new materials after a final resolution for the previously filed complaint has been reached. Alleged wrongdoing of law-enforcement employees. Requires all law-enforcement agencies that employ at least 10 law-enforcement officers, to ensure that, in the case of all written citizen complaints or complaints submitted in an electronic format, the agency (i) allows for the submission of citizen complaints through the agency's website or other electronic format; (ii) provides a receipt or written acknowledgment confirming the submission of the complaint to the individual filing such complaint; (iii) provides a written response to any individual who has filed a complaint indicating the complaint has been finalized, and (iv) provides notice to any individual who has filed a complaint if an investigation into a previously filed complaint has been reopened upon the submission of new materials after a final resolution for the previously filed complaint has been reached.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB67
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures. Requires in-state political action committees to file a report for any single expenditure of $1,000 or more made between October 1 and the date of the November election. Such reports are to be made electronically and must be received by the State Board by 11:59 p.m. on the following day or, for an expenditure made on a Saturday, by 11:59 p.m. on the following Monday. However, the bill requires that any such expenditure made within the 24 hours prior to the election day be reported and a report thereof received on the day prior to the election.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB670
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Board of Medicine; implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to implicit bias and cultural competency.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB671
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/21/22
Report Pass
2/22/22
Engrossed
2/25/22
Engrossed
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/4/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Pharmaceutical processors. Amends the definition of "cannabis oil" by removing the requirement that only oil from industrial hemp be used in the formulation of cannabis oil. The bill removes the Board of Pharmacy patient registration requirement for medical cannabis but maintains the requirement that patients obtain written certification from a health care provider for medical cannabis. The bill directs the Board to promulgate numerous regulations related to pharmaceutical processors by September 15, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB672
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Engrossed
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/12/22
Engrossed
3/12/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Chaptered
5/27/22
Passed
5/27/22
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians; initiation of treatment with and dispensing and administration of vaccines. Allows pharmacists and pharmacy technicians acting under the supervision of a pharmacist to initiate treatment with and dispense and administer vaccines for COVID-19, nicotine replacement and other tobacco cessation therapies, and tests for COVID-19 and other coronaviruses to persons aged 18 years and older and vaccines included on the Immunization Schedule published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and vaccines for COVID-19 and tests for COVID-19 and other coronaviruses to persons three years of age or older in accordance with a statewide protocol established by the Board of Medicine in collaboration with the Board of Pharmacy and the Department of Health. The bill also directs the Board of Medicine, in collaboration with the Board of Pharmacy and the Department of Health to develop such statewide protocol by November 1, 2022, and directs the Board of Pharmacy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill also provides that when services related to the initiation of treatment with or dispensing or administration of a vaccination by a pharmacist, pharmacy technician, or pharmacy intern provided for by the state plan for medical assistance services are provided in accordance with the provisions of the bill, the Department of Medical Assistance Services shall provide reimbursement for such services. Finally, the bill provides that provisions related to administration of COVID-19 vaccines to and testing for COVID-19 of minors shall become effective upon the expiration of the provisions of the federal Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 related to the administration of COVID-19 vaccines to and testing for COVID-19 of minors.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB673
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Local correctional facilities; entry privileges. Authorizes the Governor and members of the General Assembly to enter the interior of any local correctional facility.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB674
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/21/22
Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program. Authorizes the attorney for the Commonwealth for each judicial circuit of the Commonwealth to create and administer a Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program for the purpose of providing an alternative to prosecuting offenders in the criminal justice system. The bill provides that entry into such program shall be at the discretion of the attorney for the Commonwealth based upon written guidelines and that no attorney for the Commonwealth shall accept any offender into such program for an offense for which punishment includes a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment. The bill also provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth is authorized to assess and collect a fee from each offender who enters the Program which shall be waived upon affirmation under oath of indigency by the offender. Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program. Authorizes the attorney for the Commonwealth for each judicial circuit of the Commonwealth to create and administer a Pretrial Intervention and Diversion Program for the purpose of providing an alternative to prosecuting offenders in the criminal justice system. The bill provides that entry into such program shall be at the discretion of the attorney for the Commonwealth based upon written guidelines and that no attorney for the Commonwealth shall accept any offender into such program for an offense for which punishment includes a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment. The bill also provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth is authorized to assess and collect a fee from each offender who enters the Program which shall be waived upon affirmation under oath of indigency by the offender.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB675
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Engrossed
1/31/22
Engrossed
2/1/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Criminal history record information check required to sell firearm; exception for purchase of service weapon. Provides that the purchase of a service weapon by a retired law-enforcement officer is not subject to a criminal history record information check.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB676
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who is 18 years of age or older, is of good moral character, has graduated from an accredited medical school, has successfully completed Step 1 and Step 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, and has not completed a medical internship or residency program. The bill requires all associate physicians to practice in accordance with a practice agreement entered into between the associate physician and a physician licensed by the Board and provides for prescriptive authority of associate physicians in accordance with regulations of the Board.