Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB540
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/27/22
Engrossed
2/1/22
Refer
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/17/22
Enrolled
2/24/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Driver's license; extension of validity. Extends (i) from three years to six years the period for which a driver's license extension may be granted to certain persons in service to the United States government and (ii) from one year to two years the period for which a driver's license extension may be granted for good cause shown.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB541
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning District 8 that meets certain population density and nonattainment classification criteria is authorized to adopt such an ordinance.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB542
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/8/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Elections administration; reclassification of assistant registrars. Reclassifies assistant registrars as deputy registrars.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB543
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
State Board of Local and Regional Jails; powers and duties; attorney visitation of clients. Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to develop and establish minimum standards for ensuring that attorneys have sufficient opportunities to have confidential visits with their clients who are held in local, regional, and community correctional facilities, which, considering facility schedules, space, personnel constraints, and inmate disciplinary status, shall include some opportunity for visitation of clients on the weekends and after 5:00 p.m.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB544
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Engrossed
2/2/22
Refer
2/4/22
Voter identification; optional restrictive identification requirement. Allows a voter to opt into being required to show a valid photo identification issued by the Commonwealth, one of its political subdivisions, or the United States when voting in person. When a voter offers to vote and the pollbook indicates he has opted into such requirement, he shall be required to show a valid photo identification issued by the Commonwealth, one of its political subdivisions, or the United States in order to vote a regular ballot. The bill requires the voter registration application to permit an applicant to opt into this requirement and the Department of Elections to provide the means for currently registered voters to opt in as well.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB545
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds the City of Charlottesville to the list of localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB546
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Transportation safety funding. Provides that for any year in which there is a surplus, the Governor shall include in his proposed budget an appropriation of 10 percent of such surplus for the Transportation Safety Fund, created by the bill, for the purpose of funding projects that would improve transportation safety, implement safe system approach designs, improve high accident risk areas, and create safer options for pedestrians and bicyclists. The bill directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a process for soliciting, reviewing, and selecting project submissions by local governing bodies.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB547
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Department of Education; statewide strategic plan; speech-language pathologists. Requires the Department to develop and maintain a statewide strategic plan for recruiting and retaining speech-language pathologists that, at a minimum, (i) analyze data to determine the specific staffing needs of local school divisions on an ongoing basis; (ii) evaluates the potential effectiveness of strategies for addressing recruitment and retention challenges, including tuition assistance, differentiated pay for speech-language pathologists, and the expansion of speech-language pathologist mentorships; and (iii) estimates the costs of implementing each such strategy, including the extent to which federal funds could be used to support implementation. The bill requires the Department, no later than November 1 of each year, to update the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education on its progress in implementing such plan. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023. The bill also directs the Department of Education and the Board of Education, in consultation with each local school board, to (a) examine the caseloads and compensation of speech-language pathologists in each local school division, (b) compare such caseloads and compensation to those of speech-language pathologists in contiguous states, and (c) make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2022, for such amendments to relevant law and the general appropriations act as may be necessary to effectuate a reduction in caseloads and increase in compensation that would facilitate stronger recruitment and retention of speech-language pathologists in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth. Department of Education; statewide strategic plan; speech-language pathologists. Requires the Department to develop and maintain a statewide strategic plan for recruiting and retaining speech-language pathologists that, at a minimum, (i) analyze data to determine the specific staffing needs of local school divisions on an ongoing basis; (ii) evaluates the potential effectiveness of strategies for addressing recruitment and retention challenges, including tuition assistance, differentiated pay for speech-language pathologists, and the expansion of speech-language pathologist mentorships; and (iii) estimates the costs of implementing each such strategy, including the extent to which federal funds could be used to support implementation. The bill requires the Department, no later than November 1 of each year, to update the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education on its progress in implementing such plan. The foregoing provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023. The bill also directs the Department of Education and the Board of Education, in consultation with each local school board, to (a) examine the caseloads and compensation of speech-language pathologists in each local school division, (b) compare such caseloads and compensation to those of speech-language pathologists in contiguous states, and (c) make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2022, for such amendments to relevant law and the general appropriations act as may be necessary to effectuate a reduction in caseloads and increase in compensation that would facilitate stronger recruitment and retention of speech-language pathologists in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB548
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
City of Chesapeake; local government authority to require analysis of water. Adds the City of Chesapeake to the list of localities that may establish reasonable testing requirements to determine compliance with existing federal or state drinking water quality standards and require that such testing be done prior to the issuance of building permits.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB549
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits; robbery. Specifies that any person serving a sentence on a Class 2 felony for committing robbery and causing serious bodily injury to or the death of any other person is subject to a maximum 4.5 earned sentence credits for each 30 days served. Consequently, a person serving a sentence on a robbery that is a Class 3, Class 5, or Class 6 felony is not subject to the maximum 4.5 earned sentence credits and may be eligible for the four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits to become effective on July 1, 2022. The bill requires the calculation of earned sentence credits to apply retroactively to the entire sentence of any inmate who is confined in a state correctional facility and participating in the earned sentence credit system on July 1, 2022, and was (i) convicted of robbery, as such crime was in effect prior to July 1, 2021, provided that such person, during the commission of such robbery, did not cause serious bodily injury to or the death of another person or (ii) convicted of robbery punishable as a Class 3, Class 5, or Class 6 felony on or after July 1, 2021.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB55
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Report Pass
1/21/22
Engrossed
1/26/22
Refer
1/28/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Enrolled
2/16/22
Chaptered
2/23/22
Passed
2/23/22
Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requires the general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenance and to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB550
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Special license plates; VIRGINIA CREEPER TRAIL CONSERVANCY. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Virginia Creeper Trail Conservancy bearing the legend VIRGINIA CREEPER TRAIL CONSERVANCY.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB551
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Engrossed
1/31/22
Refer
2/2/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Retail sales and use tax; exemption for medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase of prescription medicines and drugs that are administered or dispensed to patients within a veterinarian-client-patient relationship. The bill repeals provisions of current law that provide that a veterinarian dispensing or selling medicines or drugs on prescription shall be deemed to be the user or consumer of all such medicines and drugs. The bill provides that the exemption shall be in effect from July 1, 2022, until July 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB552
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Consumer Data Protection Act; nonprofit organizations. Provides, for the purposes of the Consumer Data Protection Act, that the definition for "nonprofit organization" includes certain nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under § 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB553
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
2/24/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Secretary of Transportation; commercial driver's licenses. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation and working with various agencies of the Commonwealth, to promote and implement various initiatives related to commercial driver's licenses. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2023. Secretary of Transportation; commercial driver's licenses. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation and working with various agencies of the Commonwealth, to promote and implement various initiatives related to commercial driver's licenses. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2023.