Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB379
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Energy benchmarking; access to data on energy usage in certain buildings; civil penalty. Authorizes a locality to adopt an ordinance requiring utilities, upon request by the owner of a covered building, defined in the bill as any building with one or more utility accounts and a gross floor area of not less than 30,000 square feet, to provide the owner with aggregated measured energy usage data for multiple utility accounts of customers receiving service in the covered building. The bill makes such energy benchmarking mandatory for a covered building with three or more active utility accounts in which no single utility account amounts to at least 85 percent of the aggregated energy usage and optional for other covered buildings. The bill provides that the building owner shall only provide aggregated data received via the benchmarking tool subject to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager guidelines unless the Department of Energy gives other guidelines. Violators of the ordinance are subject to a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 to be paid into the state treasury for the general fund. The bill requires the Department to develop uniform guidelines for energy benchmarking with input from stakeholders, with such guidelines finalized no later than December 1, 2022.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB38
Introduced
12/30/21
Refer
12/30/21
Constitutional officers; appointed deputies; dual office holding. Subjects any person appointed by a constitutional officer to serve as deputy as provided by law to the same dual office holding requirements and prohibitions applicable to the constitutional officer.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB380
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Local license taxes; elimination of authority to impose. Prohibits any county, city, or town from imposing any license tax or fee in any taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2023. The bill does not apply to any severance tax that is levied as a license tax.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB381
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/10/22
Report Pass
2/16/22
Engrossed
2/21/22
Engrossed
2/23/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Consumer Data Protection Act; data deletion request. Provides that a controller that has obtained personal data about a consumer from a third party shall be deemed in compliance with a consumer's request to delete such data if the controller either (i) retains a record of the deletion request and the minimum data necessary for the purpose of ensuring that the consumer's personal data remains deleted and does not use such retained data for any other purpose or (ii) opts the consumer out of the processing of that data for any purpose except those purposes exempted pursuant to the Consumer Data Protection Act.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB382
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Property Owners' Association Act; statement of lot owner rights. Provides that, pursuant to the Property Owners' Association Act, every lot owner who is a member in good standing of a property owners' association shall have (i) the equal right to present use and enjoyment of the property, (ii) the right to serve on the board of directors and to carry out one's specific duties with the same rights and privileges as other board members, and (iii) the right to have notice of any pending or probable litigation involving the association.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB383
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
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
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Claims; Joseph Carter; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $1,483,342 to Joseph Carter, who was wrongly convicted of first degree murder, attempted robbery, robbery, and statutory burglary. Claims; Joseph Carter; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $1,483,342 to Joseph Carter, who was wrongly convicted of first degree murder, attempted robbery, robbery, and statutory burglary.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB384
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Vetoed
5/27/22
Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects state and local government employees of the Commonwealth, defined in the bill, from being penalized by their employer for expressing their opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or other action or purpose of a unit of state or local government at a hearing of a public body during the time designated for public comment when such employees are speaking on their own behalf as members of the public. Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects state and local government employees of the Commonwealth, defined in the bill, from being penalized by their employer for expressing their opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or other action or purpose of a unit of state or local government at a hearing of a public body during the time designated for public comment when such employees are speaking on their own behalf as members of the public.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB385
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
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
5/27/22
Passed
5/27/22
Claims; Bobbie James Morman, Jr.; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $1,247,973 to Bobbie James Morman, Jr., who was wrongly convicted of attempted malicious wounding and firearm-related charges. Claims; Bobbie James Morman, Jr.; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $1,247,973 to Bobbie James Morman, Jr., who was wrongly convicted of attempted malicious wounding and firearm-related charges.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB386
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Engrossed
1/28/22
Refer
2/1/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Enrolled
2/15/22
Chaptered
2/23/22
Passed
2/23/22
Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact. Adds the Arland D. Williams, Jr. Memorial Bridge to the Potomac River bridges subject to the Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact to facilitate the prompt and orderly removal of disabled and abandoned vehicles from the bridges by giving the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia appropriate authority anywhere on the bridges. The effective date of this amendment to the Compact is contingent upon enactment of substantially similar legislation by the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB387
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Alcoholic beverage control; sales conducted on licensed premises. Provides that any reasonable markup imposed by the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority on spirits sold at a government store established on a distiller's licensed premises shall be retained by such distiller. The bill also repeals the commission of not less than 20 percent of the retail price of any goods sold that is currently paid to a licensed distiller that operates a government store on the distiller's licensed premises or at the site of an event licensed by the Board.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB388
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Refer
2/8/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Engrossed
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/3/22
Enrolled
3/8/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
State facilities; video visitation. Requires the director of every state facility to establish a process to facilitate virtual visitation through the use of audio and video equipment for individuals receiving services at the state facility. State facilities; video visitation. Requires the director of every state facility to establish a process to facilitate virtual visitation through the use of audio and video equipment for individuals receiving services at the state facility.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB389
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Refer
2/7/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Early childhood care and education; regional entities; Child Care Subsidy Program Overpayment Fund established. Requires the Board of Education to establish a system of regional entities that will be responsible for coordinating early childhood care and education services, guiding quality improvement of such services and coordinated access to such services for families, and implementing the uniform measurement and improvement system. The bill establishes the Child Care Subsidy Program Overpayment Fund, consisting of all overpayment moneys collected or recovered by the Department of Education or any state or local agency contracted to administer the Child Care Subsidy Program, net of any refunds due to the federal government, to be used solely for the purpose of covering the cost of providing training and supports to early childhood care and education entities.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB39
Introduced
12/30/21
Refer
12/30/21
Report Pass
2/4/22
Engrossed
2/9/22
Refer
2/11/22
Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee voting in person be available Monday through Saturday, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. each day.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB390
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
State plan for medical assistance services; violence interruption services. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to amend the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for the payment of medical assistance for violence interruption services for an individual who receives medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of community or interpersonal violence and who is determined by a health care provider to be at risk of retaliation related to such community or interpersonal violence or future injury as a result of community or interpersonal violence.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB391
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Certain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Removes the authority of any school board to deem any non-school zone building or property that it owns or leases where employees of such school board are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties as a gun-free zone. Under current law, any school board may prohibit any individual, subject to exceptions, from knowingly possessing, purchasing, transferring, carrying, storing, or transporting firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof while such individual is upon such property.