Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1
Introduced
11/22/21
Refer
11/22/21
Refer
11/22/21
Report Pass
2/4/22
Engrossed
2/9/22
Refer
2/11/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/5/22
Passed
4/5/22
Charter; Town of South Hill. Updates the charter for the Town of South Hill to reflect its upcoming shift from May to November municipal elections.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB10
Introduced
12/17/21
Refer
12/17/21
Report Pass
2/4/22
Refer
2/4/22
Fees for resident concealed handgun permits. Eliminates the fees that may be charged for the processing of an application for or issuing of a resident concealed handgun permit, including any costs associated with the clerk's consultation with law-enforcement agencies.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB100
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Tax credit for parents of stillborn child. Establishes a refundable income tax credit for individual filers or married persons filing jointly for taxable years on and after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2027, in an amount equal to $2,000 for each birth for which a Virginia certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth has been issued. The credit may be claimed only in the taxable year in which the stillbirth occurred and only if the child would have become a dependent of the taxpayer.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1000
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements. Requires every member appointed to a locality's law-enforcement civilian oversight body to observe a law-enforcement officer employed with such locality's law-enforcement agency while such law-enforcement officer is engaged in his official duties. The bill also provides that any disciplinary determination recommended by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body shall be advisory and that if any law-enforcement agency declines to implement such recommendation, such agency shall create and make available to the public within 30 days from the date such recommendation is reported to such agency a written public record of its rationale for declining to implement such recommendation. The bill requires that such observation take place within 90 days of the member's appointment to the civilian oversight body and total no fewer than 24 hours, a portion of which includes a ride-along with a law-enforcement officer. The bill also requires each law-enforcement civilian oversight body to include at least one retired law-enforcement officer as a voting member; under current law, a retired law-enforcement officer may serve on such body as an advisory, nonvoting ex officio member.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1001
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Engrossed
2/4/22
Refer
2/8/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Engrossed
2/28/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/6/22
Passed
4/6/22
Amending death certificates. Requires the State Registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting evidence testifying to corrected information on a death certificate within 45 days of the filing of a death certificate, to amend such death certificate to reflect the new information and evidence. The bill also requires the State Registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting evidence testifying to corrected demographic information on a death certificate more than 45 days after the filing of a death certificate, to amend such death certificate to reflect the new information and evidence.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1002
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Workers' compensation; injuries caused by repetitive and sustained physical stressors. Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act, "occupational disease" includes injuries from conditions resulting from repetitive and sustained physical stressors, including repetitive and sustained motions, exertions, posture stress, contact stresses, vibration, or noise. The bill provides that such injuries are covered under the Act. Such coverage does not require that the injuries occurred over a particular time period under the bill, provided that such a period can be reasonably identified.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1003
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2020, to December 31, 2021. The bill also deconforms from provisions of the (i) federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) related to the net operating loss limitation and carryback, a loss limitation applicable to taxpayers other than corporations, the limitation on business interest, and certain loan forgiveness and other business financial assistance and (ii) federal American Rescue Plan Act related to restaurant revitalization grants and emergency injury disaster loans received for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2021. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1004
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Vetoed
4/11/22
Selective Service; Two-Year College Transfer Grant; Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant Program. Removes the requirement that individuals register for the Selective Service in compliance with federal law in order to be eligible for the Two-Year College Transfer Grant and the Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant Program.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1005
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Public school teachers; continuing contract; resignation. Public school teachers; continuing contract; resignation. Declares a public school teacher employed after completing the probationary period to be entitled to a continuing contract whereby the contract continues in effect for the ensuing year in conformity with local salary stipulations, including increments, provided, however, that such teacher may be dismissed for any cause set forth in relevant law and in accordance with the procedures set forth in relevant law. Current law declares any such teacher to be entitled to such a continuing contract during good behavior and competent service. The bill requires a public school teacher who seeks to resign from a continuing contract (i) for the ensuing school year to give written notice of such resignation on or before June 15 of the current school year or (ii) in effect for the current school year or for the ensuing school year after June 15 of the current school year to request release from the contract at least two weeks in advance of intended date of resignation and requires such request to be in writing and to set forth the cause of resignation. Current law requires written notice of noncontinuation of a continuing contract by either party to be given by June 15 of each year and permits a teacher to resign after June 15 of any school year with the approval of the local school board or, upon authorization by the school board, with the approval of the division superintendent if the teacher requests release from the contract in writing at least two weeks in advance of the intended date of resignation and sets forth the cause of resignation. The bill also provides that if the school board has not authorized the division superintendent to approve resignations of teachers with continuing contracts, the school board shall decide whether to accept or reject the resignation of such a teacher.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1006
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Virginia taxable income; corporations; deductions; business interest. Increases from 20 percent to 30 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § 163(j) of the Internal Revenue Code for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1007
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Board of Education; policy on sexually explicit instructional material. Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local school board to comply with, a policy to require each public elementary or secondary school to (i) notify the parent of any student whose teacher reasonably expects to provide instructional material that includes sexually explicit content, (ii) permit the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content upon request, and (iii) provide, as an alternative to instructional material and related academic activities that include sexually explicit content, nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1008
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Exempts food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products (the grocery tax) from all state, regional, and local sales taxes.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1009
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Department of Education; policy on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adopt model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to (i) ensuring parental notification; (ii) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (iii) permitting the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and provide, as an alternative, nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests. The bill provides that the local school board model policies may be more comprehensive than the model policies developed by the Department. The bill requires the Department to develop such model policies no later than July 31, 2022, and requires each local school board to adopt policies consistent with this act no later than January 1, 2023. The bill states that the provisions of the bill shall not be construed as requiring or providing for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools. Department of Education; policy on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adopt model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to (i) ensuring parental notification; (ii) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (iii) permitting the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and provide, as an alternative, nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests. The bill provides that the local school board model policies may be more comprehensive than the model policies developed by the Department. The bill requires the Department to develop such model policies no later than July 31, 2022, and requires each local school board to adopt policies consistent with this act no later than January 1, 2023. The bill states that the provisions of the bill shall not be construed as requiring or providing for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB101
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Group health benefit plans; sponsoring associations; formation of benefits consortium. Provides that sponsoring associations, including self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements, may provide health benefit plans for small employers in the form of a trust benefit consortium, subject to certain requirements. The bill includes conditions for qualifying as a sponsoring association, requirements for the formation of a trust benefits consortium, and provisions to establish a board of trustees. Under the bill, such trust benefits consortium is subject to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and U.S. Department of Labor regulations and such trust shall not include certain words or terms in its name that are uniquely descriptive of insurance companies or business, and a statement to this effect is required to be included on the first page of the health benefit plan documents. A benefits consortium or sponsoring association is exempt from the requirements of the Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association and exempt from annual license taxes under the bill.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1010
Introduced
1/12/22
Refer
1/12/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/22/22
Enrolled
2/28/22
Chaptered
3/11/22
Passed
3/11/22
Real property taxes; notice of proposed increase. Adjusts the notice requirements for public hearings held to increase property taxes in localities that conduct their reassessment of real estate more than once every four years. The bill requires such localities to provide notice of any such hearing on a different day and in a different notice from any notice published for the annual budget hearing. Under current law, such hearings are required when a locality seeks to raise its property tax rate above a rate that would collect more than 101 percent of the amount of taxes collected for the previous year. Real property taxes; notice of proposed increase. Adjusts the notice requirements for public hearings held to increase property taxes in localities that conduct their reassessment of real estate more than once every four years. The bill requires such localities to provide notice of any such hearing on a different day and in a different notice from any notice published for the annual budget hearing. Under current law, such hearings are required when a locality seeks to raise its property tax rate above a rate that would collect more than 101 percent of the amount of taxes collected for the previous year.