Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 178)
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB636
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Department of Veterans Services; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; data collection. Allows the Department of Veterans Services (the Department) to contract with any hospital in the Commonwealth that furnishes the treatment option of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy to any veteran in the Commonwealth who has been certified by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or any branch of the United States Armed Forces as having post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. The Department shall include in any contract with such hospital to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy the requirement that data be collected to assess the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for veterans and any other information deemed relevant by the Department.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB637
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Insurers rehabilitation and liquidation; federal home loan bank rights. Expands upon provisions that authorize a court, in instances of insurer rehabilitation and liquidation, to issue a restraining order or injunction to an insurer to prevent the transaction of future business or other business activities. The bill further creates provisions relating to federal home loan bank rights and insurer-members of federal home loan banks related to the transfer of assets, delinquency proceedings, and requirements for federal home loan banks upon appointing a receiver for an insurer-member.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB638
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Board of Medicine; unconscious implicit bias and cultural competency. Requires all practitioners licensed by the Board of Medicine to complete two hours of continuing education in each biennium on topics related to unconscious implicit bias and cultural competency.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB639
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/22/22
Arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting overdoses. Clarifies that the immunity afforded to the seeking of emergency help for an overdose also applies to a show cause order. Arrest and prosecution when experiencing or reporting overdoses. Clarifies that the immunity afforded to the seeking of emergency help for an overdose also applies to a show cause order.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB64
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Report Pass
1/19/22
Engrossed
1/24/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Proceeds of compromise agreements; minors; investment in college savings trust accounts. Permits a court to direct the payment of the proceeds of an approved compromise agreement, in the case of damage to the person or property of a minor, by investment in a college savings trust account for which the minor is the beneficiary pursuant to a college savings trust agreement with the Virginia College Savings Plan, provided that (i) the investment options pursuant to such agreement are restricted to target enrollment portfolios; (ii) the order or decree approving and confirming the compromise requires the minor beneficiary's parent, as that term is defined in relevant law, to act as the custodian of the account; and (iii) except in the case of a distribution from the account to be applied toward the minor beneficiary's qualified higher education expenses, as that term is defined in relevant federal law, the order or decree approving and confirming the compromise prohibits the minor beneficiary's parent from making any transfer, withdrawal, termination, or other account transaction unless the court provides prior approval pursuant to a written order.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB640
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Public defender offices; County of Henrico. Establishes a public defender office for the County of Henrico.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB641
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Refer
2/24/22
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board established. Establishes the Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board for the purpose of assisting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in expanding the provision of high-quality, evidence-based early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention services. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board established. Establishes the Early Psychosis Intervention and Coordinated Specialty Care Program Advisory Board for the purpose of assisting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in expanding the provision of high-quality, evidence-based early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention services.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB642
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/22/22
Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to adequately advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breath test, any preliminary breath test sample shall not be admissible for the purpose of determining probable cause. Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to adequately advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breath test, any preliminary breath test sample shall not be admissible for the purpose of determining probable cause.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB643
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Refer
2/22/22
Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly possess any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or any other firearm, except for an antique firearm, that has a serial number that has been removed, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly sell, give, or distribute any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or other firearm, except for an antique firearm, that has a serial number that has been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner. Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly possess any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or any other firearm, except for an antique firearm, that has a serial number that has been removed, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly sell, give, or distribute any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or other firearm, except for an antique firearm, that has a serial number that has been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB644
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Criminal history record information check required to sell firearm; exception for concealed handgun permit. Provides that a person may sell a firearm through a private sale to another person if the sale of a firearm is to a person who (i) has a valid Virginia resident concealed handgun permit, (ii) produces the permit to the seller at the time of sale, and (iii) is not prohibited under state or federal law from possessing a firearm.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB645
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Criminal proceedings; evidence of defendant's mental condition. Repeals provisions permitting the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert testimony, if such evidence is relevant, is not evidence concerning an ultimate issue of fact, and (i) tends to show the defendant did or did not have the intent required for the offense charged and (ii) is otherwise admissible pursuant to the general rules of evidence. The bill also removes provisions permitting a court to issue an emergency custody order in cases where such evidence was admitted and repeals provisions requiring the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to collect data regarding the cases that use such evidence.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB646
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Unemployment compensation; disqualification for benefits; misconduct does not include refusing COVID-19 vaccine. Provides that for the purposes of the Virginia Employment Commission determining if an individual was separated or partially separated from employment for misconduct and would be disqualified for unemployment benefits, the term "misconduct" does not include an employee's refusal to receive or receive in part any primary series or booster shot of a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB647
Introduced
1/17/22
Refer
1/17/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/23/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Engrossed
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/4/22
Enrolled
3/9/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Commissioner of Health; administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices, and vaccines during public health emergency; emergency. Allows the Commissioner of Health to authorize persons who are not authorized by law to administer or dispense drugs or devices to do so in accordance with protocols established by the Commissioner when the Board of Health has made an emergency order for the purpose of suppressing nuisances dangerous to the public health and communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases and other dangers to the public life and health for the limited purpose of administering vaccines as an approved countermeasure for such communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases. Current law limits the Commissioner's ability to make such authorizations to circumstances when the Governor has declared a disaster or a state of emergency or the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services has issued a declaration of an actual or potential bioterrorism incident or other actual or potential public health emergency. The bill contains an emergency clause.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB648
Introduced
1/18/22
Refer
1/18/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Engrossed
1/27/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/7/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Real property tax; exemption for the elderly and handicapped. Provides that any locality may by ordinance accept documentation establishing eligibility for the real property tax exemption for the elderly and handicapped on a rolling basis throughout the year. Current law states that localities shall accept such documentation after January 1 but before April 1 or a later date fixed by ordinance.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB649
Introduced
1/18/22
Refer
1/18/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/23/22
Report Pass
3/7/22
Enrolled
3/11/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Juvenile law-enforcement records; disclosures to school principals. Changes from discretionary to mandatory that the chief of police of a city or chief of police or sheriff of a county disclose to a school principal all instances where a juvenile at the principal's school has been charged with a violent juvenile felony, an arson offense, or a concealed weapon offense and adds an offense that requires a juvenile intake officer to make a report with the school division superintendent to the list of such instances that must be disclosed to a school principal for the protection of the juvenile, his fellow students, and school personnel.