Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB162
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for animal control officers. Adds animal control officers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service. Under current law, localities may provide such benefits to first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical technicians, and certain other hazardous duty positions.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB163
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Refer
2/7/22
Emergency custody and temporary detention; transportation and custody. Amends numerous sections governing emergency custody and temporary detention of minors and adults to clarify duties of law-enforcement agencies and mental health facilities with regard to custody. The bill requires facilities to take custody of a minor or person who is the subject of an emergency custody order or temporary detention order immediately upon completion of transportation and arrival of the minor or person at the facility; specifies that if a facility does not take custody of a minor or person immediately upon completion of transportation and arrival at the facility, the order is void and the minor or person shall be released; provides that emergency custody orders shall not be extended; and makes other changes to clarify the role and obligations of law enforcement in the emergency custody and temporary detention process.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB164
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Charter; Town of Colonial Beach; chief of police. Provides that the chief of police for the Town of Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the town manager rather than the town council. Charter; Town of Colonial Beach; chief of police. Provides that the chief of police for the Town of Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the town manager rather than the town council.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB165
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/24/22
Engrossed
1/27/22
Refer
1/31/22
Report Pass
2/15/22
Enrolled
2/21/22
Chaptered
3/2/22
Passed
3/2/22
Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; Bonds for public institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $100,869,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at James Madison University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB166
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/24/22
Engrossed
1/27/22
Refer
1/31/22
Report Pass
2/15/22
Engrossed
2/17/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB167
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Engrossed
2/2/22
Refer
2/4/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Publication of notice by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a correct and timely notice request to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and such newspaper fails to publish the notice, or publishes the notice incorrectly, such locality shall be deemed to have met the appropriate notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition of a newspaper having general circulation in the locality. Publication of notice by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a correct and timely notice request to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and such newspaper fails to publish the notice, or publishes the notice incorrectly, such locality shall be deemed to have met the appropriate notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition of a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB168
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Special license plates; United States Air Force. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates with a design that incorporates the emblem of the United States Air Force to active members and certain veterans of the United States Air Force. The bill provides that unremarried surviving spouses of such service members may also be issued such special license plates.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB169
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Property insurance; invoices. Requires any invoice sent pursuant to an insurance contract on property or on any interest therein or arising therefrom to list the address of the insured property or property interest.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB17
Introduced
12/23/21
Refer
12/23/21
Report Pass
1/28/22
Engrossed
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
2/4/22
Report Pass
2/16/22
Enrolled
2/23/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Military honor guards and veterans service organizations; paramilitary activities; exception. Exempts members of a lawfully recognized military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization, and members of a veterans service organization that is congressionally chartered or officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, when such member is participating in a training or educational exercise, funeral, or public ceremony on behalf of such military color guard, honor guard, or similar organization or veterans service organization, from the crime of unlawful paramilitary activity unless such member engages in such activity with malicious intent.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB170
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/21/22
Engrossed
1/26/22
Refer
1/28/22
Report Pass
2/18/22
Engrossed
2/22/22
Engrossed
2/24/22
Enrolled
2/28/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Correctional facilities; work release programs. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to convene a work group to study inmate work release programs. The bill provides that the work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Chairmen of the House Committee for Courts of Justice, House Committee on Public Safety, Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Senate Committee on the Judiciary by December 1, 2022. Correctional facilities; work release programs. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to convene a work group to study inmate work release programs. The bill provides that the work group shall report its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Chairmen of the House Committee for Courts of Justice, House Committee on Public Safety, Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Senate Committee on the Judiciary by December 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB171
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Minimum wage. Repeals certain provisions of the Code of Virginia related to increasing the state minimum wage to more than $11.00 per hour. The bill also repeals provisions related to increasing the state minimum wage based on an annual adjusted minimum wage determined by the Department of Labor and Industry.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB172
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Solar projects and energy storage projects; siting agreements with host localities. Permits a host locality in which an applicant is seeking to install a solar project or energy storage project to establish certain requirements in the siting agreement to restrict the visibility of the solar project or energy storage project from public secondary roads in order to maintain the view of the surrounding community.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB173
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
2/7/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Engrossed
2/23/22
Engrossed
2/25/22
Enrolled
3/1/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
City of Martinsville; city reversion. Requires approval from the City of Martinsville voters before the city can revert to town status. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026. City of Martinsville; city reversion. Requires approval from the City of Martinsville voters before the city can revert to town status. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB174
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Campaign finance; out-of-district contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits contributions to a candidate's campaign from persons that are not residents of the Commonwealth and limits to 75 percent of total contributions to a candidate's campaign contributions from persons and committees with a candidate, treasurer, or custodian of books who are not residents of the district served by the office to which the candidate is seeking election. The bill provides that contributions made by a candidate or a candidate's family to the candidate's campaign do not count toward such contribution limits. The bill also provides that penalties for violations of such contribution limits may equal up to two times the excess contribution amounts.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB175
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list; absentee ballots; return of ballots. Removes the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ballot for any election in which he is eligible to vote in the ensuing calendar year. The application for the annual absentee voter list requires, at a minimum, the voter to provide his printed name, date of birth, and the last four digits of his social security number. The bill makes an absentee voter's failure to have a witness sign the absentee ballot envelope a material omission and renders his ballot void. Current law allows a late absentee ballot to be counted if it is received by the Friday after the election and postmarked on or before the day of the election; the bill modifies this provision, requiring a postmark on or before the Saturday immediately preceding the day of the election. Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list; absentee ballots; return of ballots. Removes the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ballot for any election in which he is eligible to vote in the ensuing calendar year. The application for the annual absentee voter list requires, at a minimum, the voter to provide his printed name, date of birth, and the last four digits of his social security number. The bill makes an absentee voter's failure to have a witness sign the absentee ballot envelope a material omission and renders his ballot void. Current law allows a late absentee ballot to be counted if it is received by the Friday after the election and postmarked on or before the day of the election; the bill modifies this provision, requiring a postmark on or before the Saturday immediately preceding the day of the election.