Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1025
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply to the school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the resident school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per pupil share of special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain education-related expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to auditing, rescinding, and reviewing expenses made from such accounts.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1026
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
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
Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students and teachers in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2023. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2024. Superintendent of Public Instruction; establishment of the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students and teachers in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students and teachers; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2023. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1027
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Engrossed
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/7/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Financial institutions; sales-based financing providers. Requires a provider or broker of sales-based financing to register with the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) in accordance with procedures established by the Commission. The bill requires a sales-based financing provider to provide certain disclosures to a recipient at the time of extending a specific offer of sales-based financing. The bill requires that any cause of action arising under a contract or agreement for sales-based financing shall be brought in Commonwealth and any forum for any face-to-face arbitration proceedings required in such a contract or agreement are held in the jurisdiction where the recipient's principal place of business is located. The bill requires the provider to pay any arbitrators' expenses or fees or any other expenses or administrative fees incurred in the conduct of the arbitration proceedings. The bill prohibits a sales-based financing contract from containing a confession by judgment or any similar provision. The bill requires the Commission to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill authorizes the Attorney General to seek to enjoin violations of the bill's provisions and to seek damages and other relief as allowed by law. The provisions of the bill apply to sales-based financing contracts or agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2022. Financial institutions; sales-based financing providers. Requires a provider or broker of sales-based financing to register with the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) in accordance with procedures established by the Commission. The bill requires a sales-based financing provider to provide certain disclosures to a recipient at the time of extending a specific offer of sales-based financing. The bill requires that any cause of action arising under a contract or agreement for sales-based financing shall be brought in Commonwealth and any forum for any face-to-face arbitration proceedings required in such a contract or agreement are held in the jurisdiction where the recipient's principal place of business is located. The bill requires the provider to pay any arbitrators' expenses or fees or any other expenses or administrative fees incurred in the conduct of the arbitration proceedings. The bill prohibits a sales-based financing contract from containing a confession by judgment or any similar provision. The bill requires the Commission to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill authorizes the Attorney General to seek to enjoin violations of the bill's provisions and to seek damages and other relief as allowed by law. The provisions of the bill apply to sales-based financing contracts or agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1028
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Engrossed
2/9/22
Refer
2/11/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Charter; Town of Lovettsville; Town Council; town officers and powers. Makes numerous technical and clarifying amendments to the charter for the Town of Lovettsville in Loudoun County. The bill includes changes that reflect the shift in town municipal elections from May to November by referencing "the date specified by general law for municipal elections."
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1029
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund; established; report. Establishes the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund to provide grants for projects that reduce vehicle crashes involving wildlife and improve habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. High priority projects as set forth in the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan will be funded. The Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources is directed to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1 of each year concerning funding of the Fund and award of grants from the Fund.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB103
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Income tax deduction; eligible educators. Provides for taxable years 2022 and thereafter an income tax deduction of the lesser of $500 or the actual amount paid or incurred by an eligible educator, defined in the bill as an individual who for at least 900 hours during the taxable year served as a Virginia licensed teacher, instructor, student counselor, special needs personnel, principal, or student aide for public or private primary and secondary school students in Virginia for qualifying expenses, defined in the bill as expenses incurred from participation in professional development courses and the purchase of books, supplies, computer equipment (including related software and services), other educational equipment, and supplementary materials used directly in service to Virginia students as an eligible educator. Income tax deduction; eligible educators. Provides for taxable years 2022 and thereafter an income tax deduction of the lesser of $500 or the actual amount paid or incurred by an eligible educator, defined in the bill as an individual who for at least 900 hours during the taxable year served as a Virginia licensed teacher, instructor, student counselor, special needs personnel, principal, or student aide for public or private primary and secondary school students in Virginia for qualifying expenses, defined in the bill as expenses incurred from participation in professional development courses and the purchase of books, supplies, computer equipment (including related software and services), other educational equipment, and supplementary materials used directly in service to Virginia students as an eligible educator.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1030
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Issuing citations; marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle, and the accompanying exclusionary provisions. The bill also repeals the provision that provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop, search, or seize any person, place, or thing solely on the basis of the odor of marijuana and that no evidence discovered or obtained as a result of such unlawful search or seizure shall be admissible in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding. Issuing citations; marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle, and the accompanying exclusionary provisions. The bill also repeals the provision that provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop, search, or seize any person, place, or thing solely on the basis of the odor of marijuana and that no evidence discovered or obtained as a result of such unlawful search or seizure shall be admissible in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1031
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Elections; local offices; reapportionment and redistricting; effect of certain changes. Requires in certain localities that the passage of an ordinance providing for the election of an additional member of the governing body on an at-large basis must coincide with an equal increase in the membership of the local elected school board on an at-large basis. The bills also clarifies that local elected officials in office on the effective date of a court-ordered redistricting plan must be allowed to complete their terms of office, regardless of loss of residency in a particular district due to reapportionment or redistricting.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1032
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Superintendent of Public Instruction and local school boards; standards for certain public school library materials; parental review of library and other educational materials. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and distribute to each local school board and each such school board to enforce throughout the local school division mandatory statewide standards for evaluating, classifying, and removing from any public elementary or secondary school library any explicit material. The bill also permits the Office of the Attorney General to enforce compliance with such standards in any local school division. The bill also establishes means and processes for the review of education materials and the review and approval of library materials by parents, including requiring the parents of all students who attend a public elementary or secondary school to comprise the Parental Review and Approval Committee for such school and requiring such Committee to review and vote to approve or disapprove of each item on a list of proposed library materials distributed to it by the school.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1033
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Control of firearms by localities. Removes the authority for a locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for governmental purposes; (ii) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (iii) any recreation or community center facility; or (iv) any public street, road, alley, or sidewalk or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public and is being used by or is adjacent to a permitted event or an event that would otherwise require a permit. The bill provides that any firearm received by the locality pursuant to a buy-back program shall be offered for sale by public auction or sealed bids to a person licensed as a dealer. Current law provides that any such firearm shall be destroyed by the locality unless the person surrendering the firearm requests in writing that the firearm be offered for sale. The bill also limits the authority of localities and state governmental entities to bring lawsuits against certain firearms manufacturers and others. Control of firearms by localities. Removes the authority for a locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for governmental purposes; (ii) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (iii) any recreation or community center facility; or (iv) any public street, road, alley, or sidewalk or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public and is being used by or is adjacent to a permitted event or an event that would otherwise require a permit. The bill provides that any firearm received by the locality pursuant to a buy-back program shall be offered for sale by public auction or sealed bids to a person licensed as a dealer. Current law provides that any such firearm shall be destroyed by the locality unless the person surrendering the firearm requests in writing that the firearm be offered for sale. The bill also limits the authority of localities and state governmental entities to bring lawsuits against certain firearms manufacturers and others.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1034
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Refer
2/9/22
Department of Education; school boards; guidelines for the provision of counseling services in public schools. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adhere to guidelines for the provision of counseling services in public schools, which shall include (i) provisions for parental consent; written parental notification; parental involvement, as appropriate; and confidentiality; (ii) procedures by which a parent may limit or prohibit his child's participation; (iii) appropriate exceptions to the procedures by which a parent may limit or prohibit his child's participation such as imminent need, health, or safety or maintaining order in the school; and (iv) any other provision deemed necessary by the Department.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1035
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
State parks; free entry for veterans. Establishes a Veteran's Passport program for veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States or members of the Virginia National Guard that entitles the bearer to enter state parks in the Commonwealth without the payment of a parking or admission fee.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1036
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Local school boards; requirement for students to wear masks or other face coverings; evidentiary substantiation. Prohibits any local school board from requiring any student enrolled at a public elementary or secondary school in the local school division to wear a mask, face covering, or other covering of the student's nose and mouth at school, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity unless the local school board substantiates such requirement with evidence that (i) such requirement is necessary to suppress a nuisance dangerous to the public health or a communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health; (ii) no reasonable alternatives to such requirement exist in light of the impact on quality of life and economic well-being; and (iii) such requirement is narrowly tailored to address the nuisance dangerous to the public health or the communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1037
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
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. 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. The bill also requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to expand its existing contract for the provision of alternative transportation of a person who is subject to a temporary detention order or enter into new contracts for alternative transportation of a person who is subject to a temporary detention order to ensure sufficient availability of alternative transportation providers to take custody of and provide alternative transportation for all persons for whom alternative transportation is ordered.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1038
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Emergency rules, regulations, and orders; prohibition on mask mandates. Prohibits the Board of Health, Commissioner of Health, or Governor from issuing any rule, regulation, or order that requires (i) individuals to wear masks or other face coverings or (ii) businesses to require customers to wear masks or other face coverings while on the premises of such business.