Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB135
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Refer
1/28/22
Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation; transfer of custody. Provides that, in cases in which transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order is ordered to be provided by an alternative transportation provider, the primary law-enforcement agency that executes the order may transfer custody of the person to the alternative transportation provider immediately upon execution of the order, and that the alternative transportation provider shall maintain custody of the person from the time custody is transferred to the alternative transportation provider by the primary law-enforcement agency until such time as custody of the person is transferred to the community services board or its designee that is responsible for conducting the evaluation or the temporary detention facility, as is appropriate. The bill also adds employees of and persons providing services pursuant to a contract with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to the list of individuals who may serve as alternative transportation providers.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1350
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/5/22
Passed
4/5/22
Dealers; sale of dogs or cats for experimental purposes. Prohibits a dealer, commercial dog breeder, or cat breeder, including an entity that breeds dogs or cats regulated under federal law as research animals, from importing for sale, selling, or offering for sale a dog or cat bred by a person who has received certain citations on or after July 1, 2023, pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1351
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1352
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/9/22
Private elementary and secondary schools; retaliation for good faith reports of child abuse or neglect prohibited. Prohibits any private elementary or secondary school from retaliating in any manner against any individual who in good faith reports child abuse or neglect as mandated by relevant law.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1353
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the Virginia Football Stadium Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a football stadium and related facilities. The Authority is authorized to hire independent contractors, enter contracts, acquire property, borrow money, and exercise other similar powers. The Authority is exempt from the Personnel Act and the Public Procurement Act. Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the Virginia Football Stadium Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a football stadium and related facilities. The Authority is authorized to hire independent contractors, enter contracts, acquire property, borrow money, and exercise other similar powers. The Authority is exempt from the Personnel Act and the Public Procurement Act. The Authority may issue bonds with a maximum maturity date of 20 years. The bill provides that at least 50 percent of any revenues received from selling the naming rights to the stadium shall be dedicated to the principal and financing costs of any bonds issued under the bill and provides that if the football team that will primarily use the stadium (the primary team) relocates, it shall be required to repay any outstanding principal and financing costs. The bill entitles the Authority to sales tax revenues from transactions at the stadium but excludes certain revenues that current law dedicates to transportation and education. The entitlement begins on the stadium's operational date. The bill enables localities to appropriate tax revenues to the Authority. The Authority is made up of nine members appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. Four of the nine members are appointed from a list chosen by the primary team. The provisions of the bill expire if the Authority has not entered into a development and lease agreement with the primary team before July 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1354
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of probation and parole records. Provides for an exception to the discretionary release of records of adult persons under investigation or supervision by state probation and parole services by requiring the mandatory release of such records, upon request, to any criminal justice agency, defined in the bill, located within the probation and parole district in which the public body that is the custodian of the requested records is located.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1355
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Moratorium on fossil fuel projects. Establishes a moratorium, effective January 1, 2023, on any approval by any state agency or political subdivision required for (i) electric generating facilities that generate fossil fuel energy through the combustion or use of a fossil fuel resource; (ii) import or export terminals for a fossil fuel resource; (iii) modification of an import or export terminal for a fossil fuel resource; (iv) gathering lines or pipelines for the transport of any fossil fuel resource that requires the use of public land or eminent domain on private property; (v) modification of such gathering lines or pipelines; (vi) refineries of a fossil fuel resource; (vii) any facilities that change the physical state of a fossil fuel resource for the purpose of transporting such fuel; and (viii) exploration for any type of fossil fuel, unless preempted by federal law. The bill requires the establishment of transitional assistance for workers in the fossil fuel industry and affected communities.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1356
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Selling, giving, or distributing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers to another person without such persons' knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl, then he is guilty of attempted murder of the second degree. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the second degree. The bill also makes it a felony punishable by not less than five nor more than 40 years, three years of which are a mandatory minimum, and a fine not to exceed $1 million for a person to transport into the Commonwealth by any means with intent to sell or distribute 100 milligrams or more of fentanyl. Selling, giving, or distributing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers to another person without such persons' knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl, then he is guilty of attempted murder of the second degree. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the second degree. The bill also makes it a felony punishable by not less than five nor more than 40 years, three years of which are a mandatory minimum, and a fine not to exceed $1 million for a person to transport into the Commonwealth by any means with intent to sell or distribute 100 milligrams or more of fentanyl.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1357
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Refer
2/7/22
Tobacco products taxes; penalties.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1358
Introduced
1/24/22
Refer
1/24/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/12/22
Engrossed
3/12/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Claims; Jervon Michael Tillman; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $408,205 to Jervon Michael Tillman, who was wrongly convicted of robbery, wearing a mask, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Claims; Jervon Michael Tillman; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $408,205 to Jervon Michael Tillman, who was wrongly convicted of robbery, wearing a mask, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1359
Introduced
1/24/22
Refer
1/24/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Engrossed
3/9/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Health care; consent to services and disclosure of records. Provides that an authorization for the release of health records shall remain in effect until (i) the authorization is revoked in writing and delivered to the health care entity maintaining the health record subject to the authorization, (ii) any expiration date set forth in the authorization, or (iii) the health care entity maintaining the health record becomes aware of any expiration event described in the authorization, whichever occurs first, and that a revocation shall not be effective to the extent that the health care entity maintaining the health record released health records prior to the delivery of such revocation. Health care; consent to services and disclosure of records. Provides that an authorization for the release of health records shall remain in effect until (i) the authorization is revoked in writing and delivered to the health care entity maintaining the health record subject to the authorization, (ii) any expiration date set forth in the authorization, or (iii) the health care entity maintaining the health record becomes aware of any expiration event described in the authorization, whichever occurs first, and that a revocation shall not be effective to the extent that the health care entity maintaining the health record released health records prior to the delivery of such revocation. The bill also provides that authorization for the release of health records shall include authorization for the person named in the authorization to assist the person who is the subject of the health record in accessing health care services, including scheduling appointments for the person who is the subject of the health record and attending appointments together with the person who is the subject of the health record. The bill also provides that every health care provider shall make health records of a patient available to any person designated by a patient in an authorization to release health records and that a health care provider shall allow a spouse, parent, adult child, adult sibling, or other person identified by a patient to make an appointment for medical services on behalf of such patient, regardless of whether such patient has executed an authorization to release health records.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB136
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Wrongful death; death of the parent or guardian of a child resulting from driving under the influence; child support. Provides that any action for death by wrongful act where the defendant, as a result of driving a motor vehicle or operating a watercraft under the influence, unintentionally caused the death of another person who was the parent or legal guardian of a child, the person who has custody of such child may petition the court to order that the defendant pay child support.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1360
Introduced
1/26/22
Refer
1/26/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Virginia National Guard; promotion of state-sponsored group term life insurance program. Directs the Adjutant General to facilitate and coordinate efforts to promote participation in the state-sponsored group term life insurance program offered to members of the Virginia National Guard.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1361
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Provision of credit monitoring services to certain taxpayers; emergency. Directs the Department of Taxation to offer, free of charge, credit monitoring services for a period of 12 months to any taxpayer whose personal identifying information was erroneously provided to a person other than the taxpayer on an IRS 1099-G form. The bill contains an emergency clause, and will expire on July 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1362
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Short-term rentals; localities' ability to restrict. Clarifies that short-term rentals may be operated in any locality in the absence of an ordinance pursuant to the locality's general land use and zoning authority restricting short-term rentals.