Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB973
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB974
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Expands the definition of disability for purposes of providing assistance outside of a polling place to voters with disabilities to include any permanent or temporary disability. Under current law, the disability is limited to a permanent or temporary physical disability.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB975
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Department of Transportation; data on wildlife carcass removal sites. Directs the Department of Transportation to collect and publish annually on its website the sites of wildlife carcass removals from interstate, primary, and secondary roads completed upon the direction of or pursuant to a contract with the Department or the Commonwealth. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB976
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Prescriptions; unapproved use. Provides that a licensed health care provider with prescriptive authority may prescribe, administer, or dispense a drug that has been approved for a specific use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an unapproved use when the health care provider determines, in his professional judgement, that such unapproved use is appropriate for the care and treatment of the patient and prohibits a pharmacist from refusing to dispense a drug for unapproved use if a valid prescription is presented.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB977
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Public elementary and secondary education; school boards and employees; promotion of diversity and respect. Requires each local school board and employee thereof to promote (i) diversity and respect, with the understanding that all individuals are created equal and diversity is a strength of the United States, and (ii) the concept that all cultures have contributed greatly to the rich history of the United States and the way of life that Americans enjoy today. The bill prohibits any local school board or employee thereof from training, teaching, or promoting to enrolled students or school board employees the concept that (a) any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race; (b) any individual, by virtue of his race or skin color, is inherently racist, privileged, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; (c) any individual, by virtue of his race or religion, bears responsibility for the actions committed by other members of his race or religion; (d) any individual's moral character is determined by his race; (e) the United States is a fundamentally or systemically racist country; or (f) capitalism is an inherently racist economic system.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB978
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Distribution of recordation tax to cities and counties. Reestablishes the distribution of $20 million of state recordation tax revenue to counties and cities to be used for transportation or public education purposes. Legislation in 2020 dedicated the $20 million to the Hampton Roads Regional Transit Program.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB979
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Refer
2/9/22
Report Pass
2/17/22
Engrossed
2/21/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Engrossed
3/11/22
Enrolled
3/21/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Board of Education; provisional teacher licensure; teachers licensed or certified outside of the United States. Permits the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of a provisional license, valid for a period not to exceed three years, to any individual who has held within the last five years a valid and officially issued and recognized license or certification to teach issued by an entity outside of the United States but does not meet the requirements for a renewable license if the individual's license or certification to teach has been evaluated and verified by an entity approved by the Department of Education.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB98
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investigation requirements for local departments of social services related to reports of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (ii) record retention and disclosure requirements for the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services and local departments of social services; (iii) notice requirements related to findings by local departments and central registry entries; and (iv) an appeals process to contest the findings of a local department related to substantiated reports of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB980
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions to application of chapter; local administrative investigations; disclosure. Adds email addresses as information that, when furnished in confidence to the local governing body, with respect to complainants in local investigations are exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill expands the applicability of the exemption to zoning enforcement complaints for all such complaints, not just individual enforcement complaints. The bill also adds local public health and safety, nuisance, and waste and recycling complaints to the list of complainants whose personal information is exempt from disclosure. Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions to application of chapter; local administrative investigations; disclosure. Adds email addresses as information that, when furnished in confidence to the local governing body, with respect to complainants in local investigations are exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill expands the applicability of the exemption to zoning enforcement complaints for all such complaints, not just individual enforcement complaints. The bill also adds local public health and safety, nuisance, and waste and recycling complaints to the list of complainants whose personal information is exempt from disclosure.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB981
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Certain health professions; licensure by endorsement. Requires the Boards of Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing to grant an application by endorsement to any applicant who is licensed, certified, or registered in another state, the District of Columbia, or a United States territory or possession upon submission of evidence satisfactory to such board. Currently, the Boards of Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing are authorized but not required to grant a license, certification, or registration by endorsement for applicants wishing to practice regulated professions.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB982
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, whereby the parent of any individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school may apply for an Education Savings Account for his child into which the Department of Education deposits certain state and local funds and from which the parent makes certain enumerated qualifying expenses to educate his child in a setting and a manner other than full-time education in a public school. The bill requires the Program to be fully implemented prior to the beginning of the 2022–2023 school year. Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, whereby the parent of any individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school may apply for an Education Savings Account for his child into which the Department of Education deposits certain state and local funds and from which the parent makes certain enumerated qualifying expenses to educate his child in a setting and a manner other than full-time education in a public school. The bill requires the Program to be fully implemented prior to the beginning of the 2022–2023 school year. The bill also increases the value of the Education Improvement Scholarships income tax credit for a donation to a scholarship foundation from 65 percent to 100 percent of the donation. The bill removes the aggregate limit on tax credits per year, which under current law is $25 million, and removes individual minimum and maximum required donation amounts. The bill raises the threshold for students to qualify for scholarships to 1,000 percent of free or reduced-price lunch standards or, for eligible students with a disability, 1,200 percent of such standards. The bill grants scholarship foundations the discretion to determine what expenses may be funded by tax-credit-subsidized scholarships. Under current law, such expenses are limited by statute. The bill expands eligibility for scholarships to any student who is a Virginia resident and eligible to enroll in a Virginia primary or secondary school. Current law restricts eligibility to certain categories of students. The bill removes the requirement that scholarship-funded schools report test results of scholarship-funded students. The provisions of the bill pertaining to the Education Improvement Scholarships income tax credits apply starting with taxable year 2022.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB983
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Provision of abortion; abortion on the basis of genetic disorder, sex, or ethnicity prohibited; penalty. Removes from the list of persons who can perform first trimester abortions any person jointly licensed by the Board of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner acting within such person's scope of practice. The bill adds procedures and processes, including the performance of an ultrasound, required to effect a pregnant person's informed written consent to the performance of an abortion. The bill adds language classifying facilities that perform five or more first trimester abortions per month as hospitals for the purpose of complying with regulations establishing minimum standards for hospitals. The bill also provides that a person who performs an abortion with knowledge that the abortion is sought solely and exclusively on account of a genetic disorder, the sex, or the ethnicity of the unborn child is guilty of a Class 4 felony.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB984
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Liability for sale of alcohol or marijuana product to an underage person. Creates a cause of action against an alcoholic beverage control retail licensee or cannabis control retail licensee who sells alcohol or a marijuana product to an underage person if the consumption of the alcohol or marijuana product caused or contributed to an injury to person or property while the underage person operated a motor vehicle. The provisions of this act related to the sale of marijuana products have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB985
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
School principals; incident reports; violent offenses. School principals; incident reports; violent offenses. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement any felony offenses and violent offenses enumerated in the bill that may constitute a criminal offense. Under the bill, principals have discretion to report certain non-violent crimes to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports to law enforcement only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB986
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Dealers; certain DMV transactions. Provides that any transaction for issuing a certificate of title for a motor vehicle or motorcycle, registering a motor vehicle or motorcycle, or renewing a motor vehicle or motorcycle registration conducted by a licensed dealer shall cost the same as if such transaction were conducted in a branch office of the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill provides that the dealer will be compensated by the Department as though it were a DMV Select partner for processing the transaction. The bill prohibits a dealer from collecting from the vehicle purchaser the fees charged by an electronic filing systems provider for obtaining a certificate of title or registration.