Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1282
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Engrossed
2/28/22
Engrossed
3/10/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Sharing of forfeited assets; promoting law enforcement. Specifies that the forfeited property and assets paid to the state treasury into a special fund of the Department of Criminal Justice Services that shall be made available to federal, state, and local agencies to promote law enforcement may include expenditures to strengthen the relationships between the community and law enforcement, encourage goodwill between the community and law enforcement, or promote cooperation with law enforcement. Sharing of forfeited assets; promoting law enforcement. Specifies that the forfeited property and assets paid to the state treasury into a special fund of the Department of Criminal Justice Services that shall be made available to federal, state, and local agencies to promote law enforcement may include expenditures to strengthen the relationships between the community and law enforcement, encourage goodwill between the community and law enforcement, or promote cooperation with law enforcement.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1283
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Nutrient credits; generation near where used; report. Provides that any nutrient credit used to comply with certain stormwater runoff water quality criteria shall be generated in the same eight-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC), as defined by the U.S. Geological Survey, as the site of the land-disturbing activity. Current law allows such a credit to be generated in a HUC adjacent to the one in which the land-disturbing activity is located. The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to report to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee on the nutrient credit trading program.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1284
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
School boards; method of selection; election required. Requires election as the method of selecting the members of each school board in the Commonwealth. Current law requires such members to be appointed but permits their election under certain circumstances.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1285
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Virginia State Bar; Clients' Protection Fund; sunset. Repeals the sunset provision on the Supreme Court's authority to adopt rules assessing members of the Virginia State Bar an annual fee of up to $25 to be deposited in the Clients' Protection Fund.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1286
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Housing Authorities Law; notice of intent to dispose of housing projects. Removes the requirement that any housing authority required to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish, liquidate, or otherwise dispose of such housing project also serve a notice to any agency that would be responsible for administering tenant-based rental assistance to persons who would otherwise be displaced from the housing project. The bill shortens from 12 to six the number of months prior to such application submission date required before the housing authority serves notice of intent to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and each tenant residing in the housing project. The bill prohibits the housing authority from requiring a tenant currently residing in such housing project to surrender possession of his unit until at least 12 months after serving the notice required by the bill except as otherwise provided by law. Housing Authorities Law; notice of intent to dispose of housing projects. Removes the requirement that any housing authority required to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish, liquidate, or otherwise dispose of such housing project also serve a notice to any agency that would be responsible for administering tenant-based rental assistance to persons who would otherwise be displaced from the housing project. The bill shortens from 12 to six the number of months prior to such application submission date required before the housing authority serves notice of intent to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and each tenant residing in the housing project. The bill prohibits the housing authority from requiring a tenant currently residing in such housing project to surrender possession of his unit until at least 12 months after serving the notice required by the bill except as otherwise provided by law.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1287
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Procurement; recycled content in plastic materials. Directs the Department of General Services to amend its regulations to require state agencies, in the determination of an award for the procurement of plastic materials, to require that bidders identify whether their plastic materials contain recycled materials and, if so, specify the amount of recycled content in such plastic materials. Procurement; recycled content in plastic materials. Directs the Department of General Services to amend its regulations to require state agencies, in the determination of an award for the procurement of plastic materials, to require that bidders identify whether their plastic materials contain recycled materials and, if so, specify the amount of recycled content in such plastic materials.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1288
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Public utilities; rate review by the State Corporation Commission. Provides that in any annual rate review of a public utility by the State Corporation Commission, the Commission may find that the rates of a public utility, including an investor-owned incumbent electric utility, are not just and reasonable and may take corrective action. Under the bill, the Commission may conduct an investigation into the rates of any public utility on its own initiative or upon application by an affected party. Additionally, when capped rates of service for investor-owned incumbent electric utilities expire or terminate, the bill permits the Commission to find that the rates are not just and reasonable and take corrective action.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1289
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Board of Housing and Community Development; exemption for certain use and occupancy classifications from the requirements of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to consider, during the next code development cycle, revising the Uniform Statewide Building Code (the Building Code) to provide an exemption from any requirements in the energy efficiency standards in the Building Code and the 2018 Virginia Energy Conservation Code (the Energy Conservation Code), and any subsequent amendments to the Building Code and the Energy Conservation Code, for the use and occupancy classifications of (i) Section 306, Factory Group F; (ii) Section 311, Storage Group S; and (iii) Section 312, Utility and Miscellaneous Group U. Board of Housing and Community Development; exemption for certain use and occupancy classifications from the requirements of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to consider, during the next code development cycle, revising the Uniform Statewide Building Code (the Building Code) to provide an exemption from any requirements in the energy efficiency standards in the Building Code and the 2018 Virginia Energy Conservation Code (the Energy Conservation Code), and any subsequent amendments to the Building Code and the Energy Conservation Code, for the use and occupancy classifications of (i) Section 306, Factory Group F; (ii) Section 311, Storage Group S; and (iii) Section 312, Utility and Miscellaneous Group U.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB129
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; primaries for elected offices. Permits parties to decide to hold a primary for any office by ranked choice voting and changes from discretionary to mandatory the provision that the State Board of Elections promulgate regulations for their proper and efficient administration.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1290
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Report Pass
1/31/22
Engrossed
2/4/22
Refer
2/8/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications. Requires every public body to report to the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center all known incidents that threaten the security of the Commonwealth's data or communications or result in exposure of data protected by federal or state laws and all other incidents compromising the security of the public body's information technology systems with the potential to cause major disruption to normal activities of the public body or other public bodies. The bill requires such reports to be made to the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center within 24 hours of the discovery of the incident and that the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center share such reports with the Chief Information Officer promptly upon receipt. The bill requires the Chief Information Officer to convene a work group to review current cybersecurity reporting and information sharing practices and report any legislative recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology and the House Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation by November 15, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1291
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, subject to certain exceptions. Isolated confinement is defined in the bill as confinement of a prisoner or juvenile to a cell, alone or with another prisoner or juvenile, for 20 hours or more per day for an adult or for 17 hours or more per day for a juvenile, other than for the purpose of providing medical or mental health treatment. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1292
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Right to counsel; target of investigation. Provides that whenever a person is informed in writing by the attorney for the Commonwealth, the Attorney General, or counsel or special counsel for a multi-jurisdiction grand jury or special grand jury that he is the target of a criminal investigation for a criminal offense, the penalty for which may be confinement in the state correctional facility or jail, including charges for revocation of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence or probation, that target may present the written target letter to the clerk of the circuit court to set a hearing for the circuit court to inform him of his right to counsel and provide the target a reasonably opportunity to employ counsel, or if appropriate, execute a statement of indigence. The bill provides that the target letter, statement of indigence, other documents, and proceedings shall be sealed until such time as the target is charged with a criminal offense related to the target letter or until good cause is shown that they be unsealed.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1293
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Food donations; labeling; liability. Exempts individuals and entities that donate food and charitable organizations that accept food donations from criminal and civil liability for donating or receiving food past its best-by date or other non-safety labels so long as all parties are informed. The bill provides that immunity from liability shall not apply in instances of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1294
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Personal care services; requirements for managed care organizations. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to include in every contract between the Department and a managed care organization a provision that (i) authorizations or reauthorizations of consumer-directed or agency-directed personal care service hours for individuals receiving services through the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus waiver shall be required no more frequently than once every 12 months unless warranted by a substantial change in the medical needs of the service recipient and (ii) the managed care organization shall not remove a provider that provides consumer-directed or agency-directed personal care services for individuals receiving services through the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus waiver from its provider network without cause, and shall provide a written statement setting forth such cause to the provider prior to such removal. Personal care services; requirements for managed care organizations. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Department) to include in every contract between the Department and a managed care organization a provision that (i) authorizations or reauthorizations of consumer-directed or agency-directed personal care service hours for individuals receiving services through the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus waiver shall be required no more frequently than once every 12 months unless warranted by a substantial change in the medical needs of the service recipient and (ii) the managed care organization shall not remove a provider that provides consumer-directed or agency-directed personal care services for individuals receiving services through the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus waiver from its provider network without cause, and shall provide a written statement setting forth such cause to the provider prior to such removal. The bill also requires the Department to seek federal approval to amend the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus waiver and, upon receipt of such approval, amend the implementing regulations to provide that authorizations and reauthorizations of consumer-directed or agency-directed personal care service hours for individuals receiving services through the Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus waiver shall be required no more frequently than once every 12 months unless warranted by a substantial change in the medical needs of the service recipient.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1295
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Personal property tax; farm machinery and farm implements. Provides that a locality may exempt from tangible personal property taxes certain farm machinery and farm implements, which shall include (i) freezer and refrigeration equipment for storage and sale of on-farm-produced meat, produce, and grain and (ii) season-extending vegetable hoop houses used for in-field production of produce.