Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 126)

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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB875

Introduced
1/12/22  
Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board; Board of Directors of Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council; membership criteria. Adds to the membership of the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board, Board of Directors of Virginia Cannabis Control Authority, and Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council one member who is an alumni of an institution of higher education at which Hispanic students comprise at least 25 percent of the institution's full-time undergraduate enrollment.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB903

Introduced
1/12/22  
Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank; created. Creates the Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank, an authority to promote and catalyze investment in qualified projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, assist climate-impacted communities, and promote environmental justice. The Bank would be governed by a board of directors with the authority to hire a president and create a nonstock corporation to carry out the powers and duties of the Bank. Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank; created. Creates the Virginia Green Infrastructure Bank, an authority to promote and catalyze investment in qualified projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, assist climate-impacted communities, and promote environmental justice. The Bank would be governed by a board of directors with the authority to hire a president and create a nonstock corporation to carry out the powers and duties of the Bank.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB974

Introduced
1/12/22  
Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Expands the definition of disability for purposes of providing assistance outside of a polling place to voters with disabilities to include any permanent or temporary disability. Under current law, the disability is limited to a permanent or temporary physical disability.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB485

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
1/28/22  
Engrossed
2/1/22  
Refer
2/22/22  
Report Pass
3/1/22  
Enrolled
3/9/22  
Chaptered
4/11/22  
Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Act; youth services citizen boards; duties; guidelines. Directs the Board of Juvenile Justice to establish and make available to localities a list of best practice program models that are likely to qualify for grants under the Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Act. The bill requires youth services citizen boards to include representatives of law enforcement and the faith and business communities and allows local governing bodies to appoint as members of the youth services citizen board members of the community policy and management team or a similar entity, subject to certain requirements set forth in the bill. The bill allows youth services citizen boards to establish youth advisory teams for the purposes of consultation and advice regarding youth services programs. The bill removes the requirement that local youth services programs maintain and disseminate an annual inventory of youth-related and parenting-related services and programs available in the locality. Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Act; youth services citizen boards; duties; guidelines. Directs the Board of Juvenile Justice to establish and make available to localities a list of best practice program models that are likely to qualify for grants under the Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development Act. The bill requires youth services citizen boards to include representatives of law enforcement and the faith and business communities and allows local governing bodies to appoint as members of the youth services citizen board members of the community policy and management team or a similar entity, subject to certain requirements set forth in the bill. The bill allows youth services citizen boards to establish youth advisory teams for the purposes of consultation and advice regarding youth services programs. The bill removes the requirement that local youth services programs maintain and disseminate an annual inventory of youth-related and parenting-related services and programs available in the locality.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1139

Introduced
1/13/22  
Candidates for office; candidate for multiple offices at any one election. Removes the exception allowing a candidate for federal or statewide office to have his name printed on a ballot for two offices at an election or primary election. Under current law, candidates for federal or statewide office and candidates for an office being filled in a special election are exceptions to the prohibition on persons having their name printed on a ballot for more than one office. The bill retains the exception for candidates in a special election.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB456

Introduced
1/11/22  
Board of Medicine; 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 implicit bias and cultural competency.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB537

Introduced
1/12/22  
Refer
1/12/22  
Report Pass
2/8/22  
Engrossed
2/10/22  
Refer
2/23/22  
Report Pass
3/4/22  
Engrossed
3/9/22  
Engrossed
3/10/22  
Enrolled
3/21/22  
Chaptered
4/11/22  
Powers of local government; trees during development process; replacement and conservation. Prevents the prohibition or the unreasonable limitation of silvicultural activities related to the replacement of trees during the development process and the conservation of trees during the land development process in certain localities. The bill specifies provisions related to the replacement of trees during the development process in localities and allows that any locality may adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process. Further, the bill specifies provisions related to the conservation of trees during the development process in localities and allows that any locality may adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. The bill directs specified stakeholders and parties to meet at least twice prior to the 2023 Session of the General Assembly to consider specified topics. The bill directs the participants to report their recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by December 1, 2022. The provisions of the bill related to the conservation of trees during the development process do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2023 Session of the General Assembly. Powers of local government; trees during development process; replacement and conservation. Prevents the prohibition or the unreasonable limitation of silvicultural activities related to the replacement of trees during the development process and the conservation of trees during the land development process in certain localities. The bill specifies provisions related to the replacement of trees during the development process in localities and allows that any locality may adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process. Further, the bill specifies provisions related to the conservation of trees during the development process in localities and allows that any locality may adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. The bill directs specified stakeholders and parties to meet at least twice prior to the 2023 Session of the General Assembly to consider specified topics. The bill directs the participants to report their recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources by December 1, 2022. The provisions of the bill related to the conservation of trees during the development process do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2023 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB440

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
2/7/22  
Engrossed
2/9/22  
Refer
2/21/22  
Report Pass
2/25/22  
Unlawful hazing; penalty. Provides immunity for arrest and prosecution for hazing and involuntary manslaughter 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. The bill also clarifies that a prosecution of a hazing violation shall not preclude prosecution under any other statute. The bill also provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth may file a petition for mandamus or injunction against the president or other presiding official of any school or institution of higher education receiving appropriations from the state treasury seeking to enforce the required disciplinary and notifications provisions associated with acts of hazing. Unlawful hazing; penalty. Provides immunity for arrest and prosecution for hazing and involuntary manslaughter 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. The bill also clarifies that a prosecution of a hazing violation shall not preclude prosecution under any other statute. The bill also provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth may file a petition for mandamus or injunction against the president or other presiding official of any school or institution of higher education receiving appropriations from the state treasury seeking to enforce the required disciplinary and notifications provisions associated with acts of hazing.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB501

Introduced
1/12/22  
Refer
1/12/22  
Report Pass
1/31/22  
Engrossed
2/2/22  
Refer
2/21/22  
Report Pass
2/25/22  
Enrolled
3/7/22  
Chaptered
4/7/22  
Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not be construed to extend previous extensions related to the COVID-19 housing crisis.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB438

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
1/26/22  
Engrossed
1/28/22  
Refer
2/22/22  
Report Pass
2/28/22  
Enrolled
3/7/22  
Chaptered
4/11/22  
Sales tax; Historic Triangle regional tax; dedication of funds. Requires the City of Williamsburg, James City County, and York County to appropriate annual amounts to entities promoting tourism and recreation in the Historic Triangle. Under current law, such localities receive state funds from the imposition of an extra one percent sales tax in the Historic Triangle. Sales tax; Historic Triangle regional tax; dedication of funds. Requires the City of Williamsburg, James City County, and York County to appropriate annual amounts to entities promoting tourism and recreation in the Historic Triangle. Under current law, such localities receive state funds from the imposition of an extra one percent sales tax in the Historic Triangle. The bill establishes the Williamsburg Tourism Council (the Council) as an advisory board in the legislative branch of state government and replaces the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Tourism Alliance on the Council with the Chair of the Greater Williamsburg Chamber of Commerce.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB452

Introduced
1/11/22  
Powers of local governments; additional powers; energy efficiency of buildings. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt optional building energy efficiency standards and allows localities to adopt and enforce these standards. The bill allows localities to require disclosure of energy use intensity (EUI) information to prospective buyers, lessees, and lenders at the point of sale, and to require an energy audit for the building prior to the completion of the sale if there is insufficient available data or upon request. The bill allows localities to implement energy benchmarking, requiring utilities to collect and report energy use data for covered buildings to owners, and to require utilities to maintain 12 months of aggregated data for any building with an active utility account. The bill permits localities to create a scorecard program using Energy Star Portfolio Manager and require owners to disclose data to it, subject to program guidelines. The bill allows localities to incentivize owners, operators, and agents of certain buildings to report EUI information and reduce EUI amounts. The bill allows localities to set EUI requirements for certain buildings and develop local incentive programs. Powers of local governments; additional powers; energy efficiency of buildings. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt optional building energy efficiency standards and allows localities to adopt and enforce these standards. The bill allows localities to require disclosure of energy use intensity (EUI) information to prospective buyers, lessees, and lenders at the point of sale, and to require an energy audit for the building prior to the completion of the sale if there is insufficient available data or upon request. The bill allows localities to implement energy benchmarking, requiring utilities to collect and report energy use data for covered buildings to owners, and to require utilities to maintain 12 months of aggregated data for any building with an active utility account. The bill permits localities to create a scorecard program using Energy Star Portfolio Manager and require owners to disclose data to it, subject to program guidelines. The bill allows localities to incentivize owners, operators, and agents of certain buildings to report EUI information and reduce EUI amounts. The bill allows localities to set EUI requirements for certain buildings and develop local incentive programs.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB572

Introduced
1/12/22  
Refer
1/12/22  
Report Pass
1/26/22  
Engrossed
1/31/22  
Engrossed
2/1/22  
Refer
2/21/22  
Report Pass
2/22/22  
Enrolled
3/1/22  
Chaptered
4/11/22  
Veteran-owned small businesses; waiving of fees. Directs the Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, in conjunction with the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity, to examine the waiving of fees associated with permits necessary to establish a small business for veteran-owned small businesses.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HJR97

Introduced
1/13/22  
Engrossed
1/17/22  
Enrolled
1/20/22  
Commending the Monument Terrace "Support Our Troops" rallies.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB488

Introduced
1/11/22  
Refer
1/11/22  
Report Pass
2/1/22  
Engrossed
2/3/22  
Transit Transition Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Transit Transition Fund and Program, administered by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, to provide grants to state, regional, and local public entities to support the transition of public transit fleets to zero-emission fleets. The Director of the Department is directed by the bill to report annually to the Governor and the chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by November 1 of each year. Transit Transition Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Transit Transition Fund and Program, administered by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, to provide grants to state, regional, and local public entities to support the transition of public transit fleets to zero-emission fleets. The Director of the Department is directed by the bill to report annually to the Governor and the chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by November 1 of each year.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill SB555

Introduced
1/12/22  
Liability for sale of alcohol to an underage person. Creates a cause of action against an alcoholic beverage control retail licensee who sells alcohol to an underage person who was visibly intoxicated if the consumption of the alcohol caused or contributed to an injury to person or property while the underage person operated a motor vehicle. The plaintiff must prove such negligence by a clear and convincing evidence standard.