Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB987
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Refer
2/8/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Engrossed
3/9/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Medicaid; program information; accessibility. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to require every person that provides program information to ensure that all program information, defined in the bill, be made available in a manner that is accessible to (i) individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, and (ii) individuals with disabilities through the provision of auxiliary aids services, when doing so is a reasonable step to providing meaningful access to health care coverage. The bill provides that language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be provided free of charge to such individuals and that information regarding how to receive the language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be included with program information documents on a website maintained by the Department of Medical Assistance Services and on the website of every agency of the Commonwealth that disseminates program information. The bill also requires every person that makes program information available to use an objective readability measure approved by the Department to test the readability of its program information documents and requires such persons to make program information documents available to the Department for review upon request. Under current law, use of a specific readability formula is required and a minimum total readability score is prescribed. Medicaid; program information; accessibility. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Services to require every person that provides program information to ensure that all program information, defined in the bill, be made available in a manner that is accessible to (i) individuals with limited English proficiency through the provision of language access services, including oral interpretation and written translations, and (ii) individuals with disabilities through the provision of auxiliary aids services, when doing so is a reasonable step to providing meaningful access to health care coverage. The bill provides that language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be provided free of charge to such individuals and that information regarding how to receive the language access services and auxiliary aids services shall be included with program information documents on a website maintained by the Department of Medical Assistance Services and on the website of every agency of the Commonwealth that disseminates program information. The bill also requires every person that makes program information available to use an objective readability measure approved by the Department to test the readability of its program information documents and requires such persons to make program information documents available to the Department for review upon request. Under current law, use of a specific readability formula is required and a minimum total readability score is prescribed.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB988
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Treatment of transgender students; model policies. Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policies that are consistent with the model policies developed by the Department of Education concerning the treatment of transgender students in public elementary and secondary schools. The bill also removes the requirement for such model policies to include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to the use of school facilities, requires the Department to amend its model policies to remove any such information, guidance, procedures, or standards, and requires the Department to make such amended model policies available to each school board no later than the beginning of the 2022 - 2023 school year.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB989
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Refer
2/4/22
Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall compensate local jails for the cost of incarceration of convicted felons, calculated from the date of mailing of the final order, at the rate of $12 per inmate per day for the first 60 days, at the rate of $40 per inmate per day during the period of more than 60 but not more than 90 days, and for the actual cost of incarceration as calculated in the jail report prepared annually by the Compensation Board for more than 90 days. Currently, such compensation rates are provided for in the general appropriation act.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB99
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Refer
1/25/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/10/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/2/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Continuing education; funeral service licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers. Provides that approved continuing education courses for funeral service licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers shall include either one hour of compliance with laws and regulations governing the profession or one hour of preneed funeral arrangements per year, provided that at least one hour of continuing education regarding preneed funeral arrangements is completed every three years. Current law requires at least one hour of compliance with laws and regulations governing the profession and at least one hour of preneed funeral arrangements per year. The bill contains technical amendments. Continuing education; funeral service licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers. Provides that approved continuing education courses for funeral service licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers shall include either one hour of compliance with laws and regulations governing the profession or one hour of preneed funeral arrangements per year, provided that at least one hour of continuing education regarding preneed funeral arrangements is completed every three years. Current law requires at least one hour of compliance with laws and regulations governing the profession and at least one hour of preneed funeral arrangements per year. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB990
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Engrossed
1/28/22
Refer
2/1/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
DMAS; work group to study options for the permanent use of virtual supports and increasing access to virtual supports and services; individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to continue the work group established to study and develop recommendations for the permanent use of virtual supports and increasing access to virtual supports and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by promoting access to assistive technology and environmental modifications and to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB991
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Refer
1/25/22
Department of Medical Assistance Services; amend waivers providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities; greater financial flexibility for certain services; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to (i) take steps to amend the Family and Individual Supports, Community Living, and Building Independence waivers to combine the maximum annual allowable amount for assistive technology, electronic home-based support services, and environmental modifications for an individual receiving waiver services, for an annual total of $15,000, to provide for greater flexibility and better meet the needs of individuals receiving services and (ii) report on its progress to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB992
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Commonwealth Transportation Board; statewide plan. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop a statewide plan for the allocation of certain funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and to identify projects that can be funded through competitive grants through the Act. The bill requires the Board to conduct a risk-based assessment of vulnerabilities of transportation assets and systems in the Commonwealth to weather events and natural disasters.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB993
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/4/22
Unlawful hazing; penalty. Makes the crime of hazing a Class 5 felony if such hazing results in death or serious bodily injury to any person. The crime of hazing that does not result in death or serious bodily injury remains a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides an affirmative defense for hazing if a person in good faith seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing or renders emergency care or assistance, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing while another person seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for such person. Unlawful hazing; penalty. Makes the crime of hazing a Class 5 felony if such hazing results in death or serious bodily injury to any person. The crime of hazing that does not result in death or serious bodily injury remains a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides an affirmative defense for hazing if a person in good faith seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing or renders emergency care or assistance, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing while another person seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for such person.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB994
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
3/11/22
Passed
3/11/22
Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; Armed Forces; examination and report. Directs the Board of Education to determine the feasibility of amending its regulations to permit all active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States who serve as caregivers to dependents to apply for the Child Care Subsidy Program and submit its findings to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB995
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for hypertension, heart disease, COVID-19. Extends by one year the December 31, 2021, expiration date of the presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, if certain conditions for diagnosis are met. The bill adds employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections to the COVID-19 presumption for workers' compensation, if diagnosed with COVID-19 before January 1, 2022. The bill adds correctional officers to the list of employees for whom hypertension or heart disease is considered covered for workers' compensation, if diagnosed with hypertension or heart disease before January 1, 2022. Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for hypertension, heart disease, COVID-19. Extends by one year the December 31, 2021, expiration date of the presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, if certain conditions for diagnosis are met. The bill adds employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections to the COVID-19 presumption for workers' compensation, if diagnosed with COVID-19 before January 1, 2022. The bill adds correctional officers to the list of employees for whom hypertension or heart disease is considered covered for workers' compensation, if diagnosed with hypertension or heart disease before January 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB996
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/9/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/9/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Land use assessment; parcels with multiple owners. Allows the owner of a majority interest in an undivided parcel of real estate that is eligible for land use assessment to file the application on behalf of himself and for owners of any minority interest. Land use assessment; parcels with multiple owners. Allows the owner of a majority interest in an undivided parcel of real estate that is eligible for land use assessment to file the application on behalf of himself and for owners of any minority interest.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB997
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide consumer-directed services. The bill provides that "employer" includes the Commonwealth, any of its agencies, institutions, or political subdivisions, and any public body.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB998
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Building energy use intensity; reporting; reduction; requirements; incentives and incentive programs. Allows localities to incentivize, by ordinance, the owner or operator of a building meeting certain criteria, or an agent of such owner or operator, to report energy use intensity (EUI) information and reduce EUI. The bill allows localities to set EUI requirements for certain buildings and develop local incentive programs for increasing building energy efficiency.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB999
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Department of General Services; construction evaluation of impact of types of electricity. Requires all departments, agencies, and institutions of the Commonwealth, prior to construction of new structures, to evaluate the construction for the potential to rely on geothermal and solar energy. Such evaluation shall include an assessment of the immediate cost and the potential for cost savings over time by providing these types of electricity.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR1
Introduced
11/29/21
Engrossed
1/17/22
Enrolled
1/20/22
Passed
1/20/22
Commending James Carmon Stutts.