Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 73)
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB743
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Refer
1/27/22
Certificate of public need; inpatient psychiatric services and facilities. Requires the Commissioner of Health (the Commissioner) to impose conditions related to the provision of care to individuals who are the subject of a temporary detention order on certificates of public need for projects involving inpatient psychiatric services and facilities and provides that when determining the public need for a proposed project involving an inpatient psychiatric service or facility, the Commissioner shall not take into consideration existing inpatient psychiatric services or facilities or the impact of approving the application and issuing the certificate of public need for the proposed project on an existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility if the existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility does not provide an adequate amount of service to individuals who are subject to a temporary detention order, as determined by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations of the Board of Health (the Board). The bill directs the Board to adopt regulations establishing a process by which the Commissioner shall annually establish the amount of services for individuals who are subject to a temporary detention order that an existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility must provide.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB744
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Killing the fetus of another; manslaughter; penalties. Provides that any person who kills the fetus of another by an intentional act committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which is punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill also provides that any person who kills the fetus of another accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties and while engaged in conduct so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life, is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, which is also punishable as a Class 5 felony.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB745
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Engrossed
1/28/22
Refer
2/1/22
Report Pass
2/24/22
Enrolled
3/3/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure. Provides that a person who has graduated from an accredited respiratory therapy education program may practice with the title "Respiratory Therapist, License Applicant" or "RT-Applicant" until he has received a failing score on any examination required by the Board of Medicine for licensure or six months from the date of graduation, whichever occurs sooner. Respiratory therapists; practice pending licensure. Provides that a person who has graduated from an accredited respiratory therapy education program may practice with the title "Respiratory Therapist, License Applicant" or "RT-Applicant" until he has received a failing score on any examination required by the Board of Medicine for licensure or six months from the date of graduation, whichever occurs sooner.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB746
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Refer
1/25/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Report Pass
3/3/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund that shall be used solely for the purposes of assisting or reimbursing volunteer fire departments or volunteer fire companies with the costs of training and certifying volunteer firefighters. The bill also requires the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to study the accessibility and availability of training programs with a specific focus on providing training programs to volunteer fire departments, volunteer fire companies, and volunteer firefighters in a cost-efficient and effective manner. Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund that shall be used solely for the purposes of assisting or reimbursing volunteer fire departments or volunteer fire companies with the costs of training and certifying volunteer firefighters. The bill also requires the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to study the accessibility and availability of training programs with a specific focus on providing training programs to volunteer fire departments, volunteer fire companies, and volunteer firefighters in a cost-efficient and effective manner.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB747
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments. Authorizes localities to, by ordinance, authorize their local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices in certain locations named in the ordinance, provided that (i) the highway has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or greater; (ii) the ordinance identifies the locality-designated speeding offense to be enforced by the photo speed monitoring device; (iii) speeding, crash, or fatality data support the need for stronger enforcement against speeding; (iv) in counties and towns whose roads are subject to the control and jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, the locality-designated highway segment is in the secondary state highway system; and (v) the Superintendent of State Police, upon request of the chief law-enforcement officer for the locality, annually certifies that the speed limit on the locality-designated highway segment cannot be safely enforced without the use of a photo speed monitoring device. The bill directs the locality to also identify the speeding violations that may be enforced by a photo speed monitoring device. Current law authorizes the use of photo speed monitoring devices in highway work zones and school crossing zones.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB748
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
Enrolled
2/23/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Department of Forensic Science; DNA data bank sample tracking system. Replaces certain references in the Code to the Local Inmate Data System with references to the Department of Forensic Science DNA data bank sample tracking system.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB749
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Refer
1/28/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Enrolled
3/8/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund; purpose. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall adopt guidelines to make funds from the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund, which is used to support the prosecution of domestic violence cases and victim services, available to sexual assault service providers and hospitals for the purpose of funding the cost of salaries and equipment for sexual assault forensic examiners, sexual assault nurse examiners, and pediatric sexual assault nurse examiners, with priority for funding such costs given to such forensic examiners and nurse examiners serving rural or underserved areas of the Commonwealth. Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund; purpose. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services shall adopt guidelines to make funds from the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Victim Fund, which is used to support the prosecution of domestic violence cases and victim services, available to sexual assault service providers and hospitals for the purpose of funding the cost of salaries and equipment for sexual assault forensic examiners, sexual assault nurse examiners, and pediatric sexual assault nurse examiners, with priority for funding such costs given to such forensic examiners and nurse examiners serving rural or underserved areas of the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB75
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Local taxing authority. Restricts localities from imposing a transient occupancy tax at a rate that exceeds five percent and provides that any tax revenues from a rate of greater than two percent but less than five percent shall be spent solely for tourism-related and travel-related purposes. The bill also lowers the amount of food and beverage tax that counties can impose from six percent to a total of four percent. Under the bill, a county is able to impose a food and beverage tax at up to two percent without restriction, but that would require approval via a referendum in order to impose the tax at four percent.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB750
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/28/22
Engrossed
2/2/22
Refer
2/4/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers, (ii) any sheriff, (iii) any police force, or (iv) the Department of State Police from establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. The bill also provides that the number of arrests made or summonses issued by a law-enforcement officer shall not be used as the sole criterion for evaluating the law-enforcement officer's job performance.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB751
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Engrossed
1/28/22
Refer
2/1/22
Report Pass
2/18/22
Enrolled
2/24/22
Chaptered
4/27/22
Mandated reporters of suspected abuse. Adds practitioners of behavior analysis to the list of individuals required to report suspected adult or child abuse or neglect.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB752
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/16/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
4/11/22
Passed
4/11/22
Office of the State Inspector General; investigations; prohibition on interference or exertion of undue influence by the Governor, etc. Prohibits the Governor and the Governor's chief of staff, counsel, director of policy, and Cabinet Secretaries from interfering with or exerting undue influence upon any investigation by the Office of the State Inspector General of fraud, waste, abuse, or corruption by a state agency or nonstate agency or by any officer or employee of a state agency or nonstate agency.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB753
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Human rights; religious organizations; promotion of religious principles. Provides that nothing in the Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits a religious corporation, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, from taking any action to promote the religious principles for which it is established or maintained. The bill adds preschools to the list of educational institutions that are exempt from discriminatory hiring practices with respect to the hiring and employment of employees of a particular religion when such institutions are owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or religious corporation, association, or society. The bill clarifies that the term "religion" includes all aspects of religious observance and practice as well as belief for the purposes of the exemption from discrimination in employment of individuals employed to perform work associated with the activities of a particular religion by a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society. Human rights; religious organizations; promotion of religious principles. Provides that nothing in the Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits a religious corporation, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, from taking any action to promote the religious principles for which it is established or maintained. The bill adds preschools to the list of educational institutions that are exempt from discriminatory hiring practices with respect to the hiring and employment of employees of a particular religion when such institutions are owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or religious corporation, association, or society. The bill clarifies that the term "religion" includes all aspects of religious observance and practice as well as belief for the purposes of the exemption from discrimination in employment of individuals employed to perform work associated with the activities of a particular religion by a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB754
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Emergency Services and Disaster Law; limitation on duration of executive orders. Limits the duration of any executive order issued by the Governor pursuant to his powers under the Emergency Services and Disaster Law to no more than 60 days from the date of issuance. The bill provides that if the General Assembly does not take any action on the rule, regulation, or order within the 60 days during which the rule, regulation, or order is effective, the Governor shall thereafter be prohibited from issuing the same or a similar rule, regulation, or order relating to the same emergency. Under current law, once issued, such executive orders are effective until June 30 following the next adjournment of the regular session of the General Assembly. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB755
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
2/7/22
Refer
2/7/22
Anti-Human Trafficking and Survivor Trust Fund. Creates the Anti-Human Trafficking and Survivor Trust Fund, which shall be administered by a Board of Trustees and used for the support and development of services for the prevention of human trafficking and the treatment and support of human trafficking victims.
VA
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB756
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
Enrolled
2/23/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Bail for a person accused of a crime that is an act of violence; notice to attorney for the Commonwealth. Requires a magistrate to transmit within 24 hours a copy of the checklist for bail determination form to the attorney for the Commonwealth when a magistrate conducts a bail hearing for a person arrested on a warrant or capias for an act of violence. The bill also provides that transmission of such copy to the attorney for the Commonwealth may be by facsimile or other electronic means.