Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB905
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Energy efficiency standards; more stringent energy efficiency requirements. Allows a locality by ordinance to create and require stretch codes, defined in the bill as energy efficiency standards that are in addition to or more stringent than those in the Uniform Statewide Building Code, and use them as an alternative means of compliance with a locality's building requirements. The bill requires periodic review of the codes and allows the locality to make amendments.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB906
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides a petition process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility and meets certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence or run the unserved portion of such sentence concurrently with another sentence, (ii) place such person on probation for such time as the court shall determine, or (iii) otherwise modify the sentence imposed.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB907
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Regulation of alarm systems; battery-charged fence security systems. Allows a locality to require those persons providing or operating a battery-charged fence security system, defined in the bill, to obtain an alarm company permit and the corresponding fee and to require certain other requirements as defined in the bill. The bill provides that the locality can also require the installer of such security system to submit an affidavit disclosing information about the installation that includes an affirmation of compliance. The bill also provides that a locality can inspect such newly installed security system and issue a citation warning of noncompliance and can impose a penalty not exceeding $500 if the noncompliance is not remedied within the time period specified by the locality.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB908
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Use of canines in correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer, jail officer, or other employee of a state, local, or juvenile correctional facility to use a canine, except where there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to any prisoner or detained juvenile or any officer or employee of the facility, to extract a prisoner or detained juvenile from his cell or to intervene in an altercation, fight, or other incident between prisoners or detained juveniles. The bill requires that all incidents involving the use of a canine be reported to a database established by the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, as applicable, and that such reports be made available to the public and include the name of the facility, the name of the canine, and the name of the canine's handler. The bill also requires that the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, as applicable, make public any policies relating to the use of canines, training requirements for both canines and handlers, and the supervision of the officers or employees who are permitted to handle such canines.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB909
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited discrimination; national origin. Provides that a landlord may not discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges with respect to the rental of a dwelling unit, or in the provision of services or facilities in the connection therewith, to any person because of such person's national origin.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB91
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/9/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Board of Health; fee for Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth. Removes the requirement that the Board of Health prescribe a reasonable fee to cover the administrative cost and preparation of a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB910
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Hospital emergency department CPT code data reporting. Requires every hospital in the Commonwealth that includes an emergency department to report quarterly to the Department of Health (the Department), for the preceding quarter, (i) the total number of visits to the hospital's emergency department, by location, and (ii) the total number of visits to the hospital's emergency department by emergency department evaluation and management (E/M) Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code. The bill also requires the Department to annually publish a report setting forth the average number of hospital emergency department visits by location and by emergency department E/M CPT code statewide and by region for each month. Hospital emergency department CPT code data reporting. Requires every hospital in the Commonwealth that includes an emergency department to report quarterly to the Department of Health (the Department), for the preceding quarter, (i) the total number of visits to the hospital's emergency department, by location, and (ii) the total number of visits to the hospital's emergency department by emergency department evaluation and management (E/M) Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code. The bill also requires the Department to annually publish a report setting forth the average number of hospital emergency department visits by location and by emergency department E/M CPT code statewide and by region for each month.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB911
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Refer
2/9/22
Report Pass
2/22/22
Enrolled
2/28/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Local credits for approved local volunteer activities. Enables localities, by ordinance, to provide a credit against taxes and fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approved volunteer services in the locality. As defined in the bill, "approved volunteer services" includes (i) volunteer first responders or (ii) individuals who perform volunteer services to a nonprofit organization or to the locality, if such services are approved by the locality. The bill specifies that the credit shall not be applied against any property taxes or payments in lieu of property taxes. The bill gives localities discretion to determine which taxes or fees are permissible uses of the credit and which services qualify for the credit.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB912
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Engrossed
2/4/22
Refer
2/8/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/8/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Bureau of Insurance; provider contracts; continuity of care. Directs the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group to determine options for ensuring continuity of care covered by insurance for a reasonable amount of time under reasonable conditions during the time that providers and insurance carriers are negotiating provider contracts. The work group shall provide recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2022. Bureau of Insurance; provider contracts; continuity of care. Directs the Bureau of Insurance of the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group to determine options for ensuring continuity of care covered by insurance for a reasonable amount of time under reasonable conditions during the time that providers and insurance carriers are negotiating provider contracts. The work group shall provide recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB913
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act; duties of operator; liability of excavator. Requires an operator of residential telecommunications or cable television service, after receiving notification of an interruption in service due to the installation of broadband service at a given premises, to restore telecommunications or cable television service, such that a person at the premises can telephone emergency services by dialing 911, within two days of receiving such notification. The bill prohibits an operator from giving false or misleading information to the notification center and requires the State Corporation Commission to investigate certain claims following an informal complaint. The bill requires an operator to indemnify and hold harmless an excavator when the excavator is installing facilities for purposes of broadband service and damages a utility line used for residential telecommunications or cable television and provides that no excavator is liable for any such damage occurring on or after July 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB914
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Refer
2/3/22
Legal holidays; Clerk of Court Day. Establishes the second Friday of August as a state holiday, in recognition of the clerks of the courts of the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB915
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Required immunizations; regulations. Provides that a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of each child in the Commonwealth shall cause such child to be vaccinated in accordance with the Regulations for the Immunization of School Children of the State Board of Health (the Board) and that regulations of the Board setting forth such requirements shall be subject to the Administrative Process Act. Currently, a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of a child shall cause such child to be vaccinated in accordance with the Immunizations Schedule developed and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Academy of Family Physicians, and any regulations of the Board setting forth requirements related to vaccines are exempt from the Administrative Process Act. The bill also provides that no regulation of the Board of Health setting forth requirements related to vaccines shall become effective until after the next regular session of the General Assembly following the date on which the final adopted regulation is published in the Virginia Register of Regulations.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB916
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Health care providers; health records of minors; available via secure website. Provides that every hospital and health care provider that makes patients' health records available to such patients through a secure website shall make all health records of a patient who is a minor available to such patient's parent through such secure website unless the hospital or health care provider cannot make such health record available in a manner that prevents disclosure of information, the disclosure of which has been denied by a health care provider or for which required consent has not been provided. Health care providers; health records of minors; available via secure website. Provides that every hospital and health care provider that makes patients' health records available to such patients through a secure website shall make all health records of a patient who is a minor available to such patient's parent through such secure website unless the hospital or health care provider cannot make such health record available in a manner that prevents disclosure of information, the disclosure of which has been denied by a health care provider or for which required consent has not been provided.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB917
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Aging services; allocation of resources; individuals with the greatest economic need. Provides that in allocating resources for aging services, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (i) shall prioritize providing services to those with the greatest economic need and (ii) among individuals with comparable levels of economic need, may prioritize providing services to individuals with the greatest social need.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB918
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Packaging Stewardship Program and Fund; established. Establishes the Packaging Stewardship Program (the Program), administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. Under the Program, a producer that sells products with packaging materials in the Commonwealth pays a fee to the Department based upon the amount of packaging used and whether or not it is easily recyclable. A producer may establish an alternative collection program to offset some or all of the fees. The fees are paid into the Packaging Stewardship Fund, established in the bill, and are used to reimburse participating localities for expenses related to recycling, invest in recycling infrastructure and education, and pay administrative costs related to the Program. The bill authorizes the Department to contract with a third party to administer the Program.