Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 71)
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB716
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/8/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Kinship foster care; notice and appeal. Requires local boards of social services (local boards), upon receiving a request from a child's relative to become a kinship foster parent, to provide the relative with any forms and materials that must be submitted to become a kinship foster parent within 15 days. The bill requires local boards, upon denying a relative's request to become a kinship foster parent, to provide to the relative (i) a clear and specific explanation of the reasons for denial, (ii) a statement that such denial is appealable, and (iii) information regarding the procedure for filing such appeal. The bill allows relatives to file an appeal regarding such decisions with the Commissioner of Social Services and requires the Board of Social Services to adopt certain regulations regarding the timeline of such appeals.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB717
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/25/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Engrossed
3/3/22
Engrossed
3/7/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
5/27/22
Passed
5/27/22
Unaccompanied homeless youths; services; consent. Provides that an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult for the purpose of consenting to housing, including emergency shelter, and establishes requirements for providers of housing, including emergency shelter, for unaccompanied homeless youths. The bill directs the Board of Social Services to adopt regulations for implementation of the bill and directs the Department of Social Services to establish a work group to make recommendations to the Board regarding such regulations and to develop recommendations regarding authorizing unaccompanied homeless youth to consent to medical care. Unaccompanied homeless youths; services; consent. Provides that an unaccompanied homeless youth shall be deemed an adult for the purpose of consenting to housing, including emergency shelter, and establishes requirements for providers of housing, including emergency shelter, for unaccompanied homeless youths. The bill directs the Board of Social Services to adopt regulations for implementation of the bill and directs the Department of Social Services to establish a work group to make recommendations to the Board regarding such regulations and to develop recommendations regarding authorizing unaccompanied homeless youth to consent to medical care.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB718
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Virginia Board of Workforce Development; collaboration to develop apprenticeship program. Directs the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (the Board) to collaborate with the Department of Labor and Industry, the Department of Education, and the Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Commerce and Trade and rely on data from the Office of Education and Labor Market Alignment in reviewing the performance of current apprenticeship programs in meeting high-demand industry needs. The bill requires the Board to prepare recommendations for creating a primary office for apprenticeship programs based on such review and report its recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2022.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB719
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Engrossed
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/3/22
Refer
2/4/22
Report Pass
2/16/22
Engrossed
2/21/22
Engrossed
2/23/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Physical evidence recovery kits; victim's right to notification; storage. Provides that for a physical evidence recovery kit that (i) was collected by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as part of a routine death investigation and the medical examiner and the law-enforcement agency agree that analysis is not warranted, (ii) was determined by the law-enforcement agency not to be connected to a criminal offense, or (iii) is connected to an offense that occurred outside of the Commonwealth or another law-enforcement agency has taken over responsibility of the investigation and such kit is not transferred to another law-enforcement agency, the law-enforcement agency that received the physical evidence recovery kit shall store such kit for a period of 10 years or until 10 years after the victim reaches the age of majority if the victim was a minor at the time of collection, whichever is longer. The bill provides that after the mandatory retention period, the law-enforcement agency may destroy the physical evidence recovery kit, or in its discretion, may elect to retain the physical evidence recovery kit for a longer period of time. The bill also provides that when a state or local law-enforcement agency located within the Commonwealth has taken over responsibility for the investigation related to the physical evidence recovery kit, unless one of the other exceptions for submitting such kit to the Department of Forensic Science applies, the physical evidence recovery kit shall be transferred to such law-enforcement agency and such law-enforcement agency shall submit the physical evidence recovery kit to the Department of Forensic Science within 60 days of receipt from the original receiving law-enforcement agency. Physical evidence recovery kits; victim's right to notification; storage. Provides that for a physical evidence recovery kit that (i) was collected by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as part of a routine death investigation and the medical examiner and the law-enforcement agency agree that analysis is not warranted, (ii) was determined by the law-enforcement agency not to be connected to a criminal offense, or (iii) is connected to an offense that occurred outside of the Commonwealth or another law-enforcement agency has taken over responsibility of the investigation and such kit is not transferred to another law-enforcement agency, the law-enforcement agency that received the physical evidence recovery kit shall store such kit for a period of 10 years or until 10 years after the victim reaches the age of majority if the victim was a minor at the time of collection, whichever is longer. The bill provides that after the mandatory retention period, the law-enforcement agency may destroy the physical evidence recovery kit, or in its discretion, may elect to retain the physical evidence recovery kit for a longer period of time. The bill also provides that when a state or local law-enforcement agency located within the Commonwealth has taken over responsibility for the investigation related to the physical evidence recovery kit, unless one of the other exceptions for submitting such kit to the Department of Forensic Science applies, the physical evidence recovery kit shall be transferred to such law-enforcement agency and such law-enforcement agency shall submit the physical evidence recovery kit to the Department of Forensic Science within 60 days of receipt from the original receiving law-enforcement agency. The bill also requires the law-enforcement agency to inform the victim, parent, guardian, or next of kin of the unique identification number assigned to the physical evidence recovery kit utilized by the health care provider and the personal identification number required to view the status of the physical evidence recovery kit and provide information regarding the Physical Evidence Recovery Kit Tracking System, unless disclosing this information would interfere with the investigation or prosecution of the offense, in which case the victim, parent, guardian, or next of kin shall be informed of the estimated date on which the information may be disclosed, if known.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB72
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Marijuana cultivation facility licenses; prohibition on sale of plants and seeds. Provides that, if an act of assembly is passed by the 2022 Session of the General Assembly that creates a license that authorizes the licensee to cultivate retail marijuana and perform related activities, such licensees shall not be permitted to sell mature or immature marijuana plants or marijuana seeds to consumers.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB720
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Family caregiver tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2022 through 2026 for expenses incurred by an individual in caring for an eligible family member, defined in the bill, who requires assistance with one or more activities of daily living, also defined in the bill. The credit equals 50 percent of eligible expenditures incurred by the caregiver up to $1,000. In order to qualify for the credit, the family caregiver must (i) not receive any compensation or reimbursement for the eligible expenditures, (ii) have federal adjusted gross income that is no greater than $75,000 for an individual or $150,000 for married persons, and (iii) live in the same primary residence as the eligible family member for no fewer than 183 days during the taxable year. The bill requires the Tax Commissioner to establish guidelines for claiming the credit and provides that any unused credit may be carried forward by the taxpayer for five taxable years following the taxable year for which the credit was issued.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB721
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Program; higher education centers. Adds educational programs at higher education centers that lead to an occupation in a high-demand field to the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back Program (G3 Program) and provides that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia shall make expenditures and disbursements from the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back Fund. The bill defines higher education centers as the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, The New College Institute, Roanoke Higher Education Center, and Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. Under current law, the G3 Program only includes educational programs at associate-degree-granting public institutions of higher education that lead to occupations in a high-demand field.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB722
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; meetings held through electronic communication means; local advisory boards and commissions. Allows a local public body that serves in an advisory capacity to gather through electronic communication means without a quorum of the public body physically assembled at one primary or central meeting location if certain conditions, outlined in the bill, are met.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB723
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Electric cooperatives; board of directors; access to meetings; required disclosures. Requires that each Virginia electric cooperative hold direct elections for its board of directors, either in person or by mail, or by electronic communication means if authorized by its articles of incorporation, and prohibits proxy voting. The bill requires that meetings of the board of directors be open to members of the cooperative, viewable both in person and through online streaming, and that recordings of the meetings be posted on an official website for viewing by members of the cooperative, with certain exceptions for confidential matters. The bill also requires the board of directors of an electric cooperative to make certain disclosures to its members annually. These disclosures must include the cooperative's position on legislative and regulatory issues, the amount of money spent on lobbying by the cooperative, and the names of lobbying organizations that the cooperative supports and be posted online or distributed through a member publication.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB724
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Electric cooperatives; net energy metering for agricultural customer-generators; report. Removes the July 1, 2019, sunset provision of the net energy metering program for agricultural customer-generators interconnected with electric cooperatives. The bill provides that, for the purposes of net metering, an agricultural customer-generator may aggregate energy generated on noncontiguous parcels of land if the parcels are (i) owned and operated by the same agricultural customer-generator and (ii) located within a reasonable distance of the customer's original interconnection site. The bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to convene a workgroup for the purpose of assessing policy concerns related to the implementation of small-scale solar energy projects designed to meet the onsite energy needs of agricultural operations in the Commonwealth, and directs the workgroup to report its recommendations to the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake & Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation & Natural Resources by December 1, 2022.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB725
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Hunting with steel-jawed traps; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the use of steel-jawed traps when hunting; a violation of the prohibition is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB726
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Health insurance; coverage for donated human breast milk. Requires health insurers, corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for expenses incurred in the provision of pasteurized donated human breast milk. The requirement applies if the covered person is an infant under the age of six months, the milk is obtained from a human milk bank that meets quality guidelines established by the Department of Health, and a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for an infant who satisfies certain criteria. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2023. The measure also requires the state plan for medical assistance services to include a provision for payment of medical assistance services incurred in the provision of pasteurized donated human breast milk. This bill is a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB727
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Historical African American cemeteries; disbursement of funds; qualified organization. Expands the definition of a qualified organization that may receive funds for maintenance of a historical African American cemetery to include any locality whose purpose for applying for funding from the Department of Historic Resources is to maintain a neglected historical African American cemetery, or a portion thereof, that is located within its jurisdictional bounds. The bill also creates an exemption by allowing localities that are eligible for funding for the maintenance and care of historical African American cemeteries to apply to the Director of the Department for a grant to perform extraordinary maintenance, renovation, repair, or reconstruction on any such cemeteries and graves without first having received initial funding for the maintenance and care of those cemeteries and graves. Current law requires a qualified organization to apply for any such grant only after it has received initial funding for the maintenance and care of a historical African American cemetery.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB728
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes the localities in Planning District 23 to establish a traffic control device violation monitoring system imposing monetary liability on the operator of a motor vehicle for failure to comply with traffic control devices at any intersection deemed by the local governing body to be negatively impacted by traffic due to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2026, or upon certification by the Secretary of Transportation that the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project is complete, whichever is earlier. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB729
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Vacant building registration. Allows cities and certain towns to require annual registration by the owners of buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months or more and that may endanger the public health, safety, or welfare. Under current law, buildings must meet a specific definition of "derelict building" before their owners can be required to register by these localities.