Virginia 2022 Regular Session All Bills (Page 62)
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB179
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/27/22
Engrossed
2/1/22
Refer
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/17/22
Enrolled
2/24/22
Chaptered
4/1/22
Passed
4/1/22
Department of Motor Vehicles; permanent farm use placard. Requires an owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable permanent farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and to display the farm use placard on the vehicle at all times. The bill requires the applicant to provide specified information about the vehicle and its usage, pay a $15 fee, and certify that the vehicle is insured. The provisions of the bill requiring the owner or lessee of a farm vehicle to obtain and display a farm use placard have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR14
Introduced
1/10/22
Engrossed
1/17/22
Enrolled
1/20/22
Passed
1/20/22
Celebrating the life of Madison Taylor Wessells.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB133
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Elections, ballots; ballot fraud security measures. Requires any printer or vendor supplying ballots in an election for state or federal office to be ISO 27001 certified, ISO 17025 certified, or ISO 9001:2015 certified. The bill also requires any ballot used in an election for state or federal office to include a unique bar code or quick response code that is accessible only to the voter and that tracks the voter's ballot as it is processed and to include the use of at least two other ballot fraud security measures from a list of approved measures.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB52
Introduced
1/2/22
Refer
1/2/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Engrossed
2/9/22
Refer
2/11/22
Report Pass
2/21/22
Enrolled
2/25/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Charter; Town of Tazewell; board of zoning appeals. Increases the term length for members of the board of zoning appeals for the Town of Tazewell from two to five years.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB51
Introduced
12/31/21
Refer
12/31/21
Damage to motor vehicles; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to commit larceny of a catalytic converter from a motor vehicle, regardless of the converter's value. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for a person to willfully break, injure, tamper with, or remove any part or parts of any vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel for the purpose of injuring, defacing, or destroying said vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel, or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation, or for any purpose against the will or without the consent of the owner, or to in any other manner willfully or maliciously interfere with or prevent the running or operation of such vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel, when such violation causes damage to such vehicle, aircraft, boat, or vessel of $1,000 or more. Current law makes such violation a Class 1 misdemeanor with no limit on the amount of damage. Under the bill, the penalty for damage of less than $1,000 remains a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HJR5
Introduced
12/31/21
Refer
12/31/21
Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; benefits of hospitals, health systems, and other providers addressing the health-related social needs of Virginians; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the benefits of hospitals, health systems, and other providers in addressing the health-related social needs of Virginians. The study shall identify opportunities for policy making to make health care in Virginia more affordable and effective through innovations in care coordination, workforce development, payment options, and improved data collection.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB53
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Animal care; zoos and petting zoos; seizure of Animal care; zoos and petting zoos; seizure of animals. Defines animals located at a zoo or petting zoo as agricultural animals for the standards for seizure or impoundment of companion animals. The bill also contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB59
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB58
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Report Pass
1/25/22
Engrossed
1/31/22
Refer
2/7/22
Local government; prohibits certain practices Local government; prohibits certain practices that would require contractors to provide benefits. Prohibits local governing bodies from establishing provisions related to procurement of goods, professional services, or construction that would require a wage floor or any other employee benefit or compensation above what is otherwise required by state or federal law to be provided by a contractor to one or more of the contractor's employees as part of a contract with the locality. The bill provides that the prohibition shall not affect contracts between a locality and another party that were executed prior to January 1, 2023, or the renewal or future rebids of services thereof. The bill provides that localities shall not be prohibited from entering into contracts for economic development incentives in which the company receiving the incentives is required to maintain a certain stated wage level for its employees.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB61
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Firearms; concealed carry for law-enforcement officers, attorneys for the Commonwealth, and judges; exceptions to certain prohibited activities. Provides that any (i) active law-enforcement officer, (ii) qualified retired law-enforcement officer, (iii) attorney for the Commonwealth or assistant attorney for the Commonwealth, (iv) qualified retired attorney for the Commonwealth or retired assistant attorney for the Commonwealth, (v) judge or justice of the Commonwealth, or (vi) retired judge or retired justice of the Commonwealth may carry a concealed weapon about his person, hidden from common observation. The bill also permits such law-enforcement officers, retired law-enforcement officers, attorneys for the Commonwealth or assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth, qualified retired attorneys for the Commonwealth or retired assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth, judges or justices of the Commonwealth, and retired judges or justices of the Commonwealth to carry a firearm in many of the areas where firearms are prohibited from being carried.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB65
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses; Internet orders and shipments. Allows the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to include in its agency agreements with licensed distillers provisions that allow distillers to sell spirits and low alcohol beverage coolers through Internet orders and ship such orders to consumers and licensees within the Commonwealth. The bill imposes certain quantity, carriage, transaction, and labeling requirements on such sales and shipments.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB62
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Report Pass
1/18/22
Engrossed
1/21/22
Refer
1/25/22
Report Pass
2/28/22
Enrolled
3/8/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Insurance; obsolete provisions and notice. Removes an exception to the regulation of insurance rates by the State Corporation Commission relating to certain automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance policies. The bill removes provisions requiring the Commission to mail a copy of certain orders regarding motor vehicle insurance forms to insurers and rate service organizations and instead requires the Commission to provide notice of such orders. Finally, the bill repeals a provision requiring that coverage of airtrip accident policies extend in certain cases to connecting or returning planes.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB70
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/14/22
Refer
2/16/22
Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; minimum rights. Provides that the rights accorded to law-enforcement officers in the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act are minimum rights and all law-enforcement agencies shall adopt grievance procedures that are consistent with such rights. The bill removes the current exception from the provisions of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act for any law-enforcement officer or law-enforcement agency that serves under the authority of a locality that has established a law-enforcement civilian oversight body. Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act; minimum rights. Provides that the rights accorded to law-enforcement officers in the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act are minimum rights and all law-enforcement agencies shall adopt grievance procedures that are consistent with such rights. The bill removes the current exception from the provisions of the Law-Enforcement Officers Procedural Guarantee Act for any law-enforcement officer or law-enforcement agency that serves under the authority of a locality that has established a law-enforcement civilian oversight body.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB69
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shall assure a minor child of frequent and continuing contact with both parents so as to maximize the amount of time the minor child spends with each parent.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB65
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Report Pass
1/19/22
Engrossed
1/24/22
Refer
1/26/22
Report Pass
2/22/22
Enrolled
3/2/22
Chaptered
4/7/22
Passed
4/7/22
Live nutria. Provides that the existing prohibition Live nutria. Provides that the existing prohibition against possession, sale, or liberation of nutria does not apply to employees of the Department of Wildlife Resources or certain federal agencies, or any persons involved in research or management activities with such agencies.