“HB 938, carried by Delegate Roxann Robinson, and SB 656, carried by Senator Siobhan Dunnavant, each ship on my Day One guarantees to offer mother and father a higher say of their kids’s training. I’m happy to signal them into regulation, together with many different bipartisan payments that may improve training, enhance public security, present tax aid, and make authorities work higher for the folks of Virginia,” stated Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Beneath is a abstract of the payments that have been signed:
HB 938 (Robinson) – Board of Schooling; stakeholder group; analysis of and proposals for sure present and proposed insurance policies and efficiency requirements for public elementary and secondary colleges. Requires the Board of Schooling to collaborate with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of Schooling to convene a gaggle of stakeholders to incorporate mother and father, public faculty principals, public faculty superintendents, public faculty board members, public faculty lecturers, establishments of upper training, the State Council of Increased Schooling for Virginia, business companions and employers, and different involved stakeholders to judge, to implement the place attainable, and to in any other case make suggestions to the Basic Meeting concerning the next objectives: (i) selling excellence in instruction and scholar achievement in arithmetic; (ii) increasing the Superior Research Diploma as an possibility for college students in public excessive colleges within the Commonwealth; (iii) growing the transparency and honesty of efficiency measures for public elementary and secondary colleges within the Commonwealth; (iv) guaranteeing that efficiency measures for public elementary and secondary colleges prioritize the attainment of grade-level proficiency and progress in the course of the course of a college yr and from faculty yr to high school yr in studying and arithmetic for all college students, particularly in grades kindergarten via 5; (v) guaranteeing that the Commonwealth’s proficiency requirements on Requirements of Studying assessments in studying and arithmetic are maintained; and (vi) guaranteeing a robust accreditation system that promotes significant accountability year-over-year. The invoice requires the Secretary of Schooling and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, no later than November 30, 2022, to report back to the Chairmen of the Home Committee on Schooling and the Senate Committee on Schooling and Well being the outcomes of such analysis and proposals to attain such objectives.
SB 656 (Dunnavant) – Division of Schooling; native faculty boards; insurance policies on sexually specific content material in educational materials. Requires the Division of Schooling to develop no later than July 31, 2022, mannequin insurance policies and every native faculty board to undertake no later than January 1, 2023, insurance policies for guaranteeing parental notification of any educational materials that features sexually specific content material and embrace info, steering, procedures, and requirements regarding (i) guaranteeing parental notification; (ii) immediately figuring out the precise educational materials and sexually specific topics; and (iii) allowing the dad or mum of any scholar to evaluate educational materials that features sexually specific content material and supply, as a substitute, nonexplicit educational materials and associated educational actions to any scholar whose dad or mum so requests. The invoice gives that the native faculty board insurance policies shall be in step with however could also be extra complete than the mannequin insurance policies developed by the Division. The invoice states that the provisions of the invoice shall not be construed as requiring or offering for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary colleges.
HB 225 (Coyner) & SB 321 (Vogel) – Medical health insurance; definition of autism spectrum dysfunction. Supplies that for the needs of required medical insurance protection for the analysis and remedy of autism spectrum dysfunction, “autism spectrum dysfunction” means any pervasive developmental dysfunction or autism spectrum dysfunction, as outlined in the latest version or the latest version on the time of analysis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook of Psychological Problems of the American Psychiatric Affiliation and “medically obligatory” means in accordance with the commonly accepted requirements of psychological dysfunction or situation care and clinically acceptable when it comes to sort, frequency, web site, and period, based mostly upon proof and fairly anticipated to do any of the next: (i) stop the onset of an sickness, situation, harm, or incapacity; (ii) cut back or ameliorate the bodily, psychological, or developmental results of an sickness, situation, harm, or incapacity; or (iii) help to attain or preserve most purposeful capability in performing every day actions, bearing in mind each the purposeful capability of the person and the purposeful capacities which are acceptable for people of the identical age.
SB 202 (Newman) – Research; Secretary of Well being and Human Assets and Secretary of Public Security and Homeland Safety; improve use of other custody preparations for people topic to an emergency custody or non permanent detention order; report. Directs the Secretary of Well being and Human Assets, along with the Secretary of Public Security and Homeland Safety, to review choices to extend using various custody preparations for people who’re topic to an emergency custody or non permanent detention order and to report his findings and proposals to the Governor and the Chairmen of the Home Committees on Appropriations and Well being, Welfare and Establishments and the Senate Committees on Schooling and Well being and Finance and Appropriations by October 1, 2022.
HB 236 (Orrock) Board of Schooling; authority to briefly prolong sure lecturers’ licenses. Permits the Board of Schooling to grant a two-year extension of the license of any particular person licensed by the Board of Schooling pursuant to its statutory authority whose license expires on June 30, 2022, in an effort to present the person with enough further time to finish the necessities for licensure or license renewal. The invoice accommodates an emergency clause.
HB 223 (Coyner) & SB 437 (Dunnavant)- Insurance coverage for workers of sure public faculty foundations.Supplies that any locality might present group life, accident, and medical insurance applications for workers of sure public faculty foundations.
SB 212 (Kiggans)- Particular license plates; United States Navy; Navy-Marine Corps Aid Society Fund. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing particular license plates with a design that comes with the logo of the USA Navy to lively members and sure veterans of the USA Navy. The invoice gives that unremarried surviving spouses of such service members might also be issued such particular license plates. The invoice creates the Navy-Marine Corps Aid Society Fund to make the most of funds from the license plate charges to help the Navy-Marine Corps Aid Society in Virginia.
HB 1278iley) – Conveyance of sure property; situations. Authorizes the Division of Wildlife Assets to convey sure property to the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Basis. Any deed of conveyance shall embrace a situation that the property be open to public use, together with public fishing, and shall present that the property shall revert to the Commonwealth if the situation will not be met.
SB 221 (Obenshain) – Indexing of wills; pilot program in Rockingham County. Permits the clerk of the Rockingham County Circuit Court docket to ascertain a pilot venture for an index of wills lodged for safekeeping, with a searchable database accessible to the general public.
SB 227 (Obenshain) – Misdemeanor sexual offenses the place the sufferer is a minor; statute of limitations; penalty. Supplies that the prosecution of the misdemeanor offense of inflicting or encouraging acts rendering kids delinquent the place the alleged grownup offender has consensual sexual activity with a minor who’s 15 years of age or older on the time of the offense shall be commenced no later than 5 years after the sufferer reaches majority offered that the alleged grownup offender was greater than three years older than the sufferer on the time of the offense. Underneath present regulation, the prosecution of such offense shall be commenced inside one yr after fee of the offense.
HB 238 (Orrock) – Land use evaluation; varieties. Supplies that the varieties used for revalidation of functions for land use evaluation shall be ready by the Division of Taxation. Underneath present regulation, such varieties are ready by the locality. The invoice directs the Division to hunt enter from localities throughout the Commonwealth in creating such varieties.
HB 235 (Orrock) – Rehabilitation hospitals; preparations for follow-up care. Directs the Board of Well being to convene a piece group to offer suggestions concerning rules requiring hospitals to develop protocols for connecting sufferers receiving rehabilitation companies to obligatory follow-up care. The invoice requires the work group to report its suggestions to the Board of Well being by October 1, 2022.
HB 82 (Kilgore) – Insurance coverage holding firm methods; group capital calculation and liquidity stress check. Requires that sure insurers which are members of an insurance coverage holding firm system file a gaggle capital calculation in accordance with the Nationwide Affiliation of Insurance coverage Commissioners (NAIC) Group Capital Calculation Directions and a liquidity stress check in accordance with the NAIC Liquidity Stress Check Framework. The invoice gives exceptions to such reporting necessities and accommodates numerous provisions concerning the confidentiality of data contained in such experiences. The invoice authorizes the State Company Fee to require a deposit or bond when an insurer that could be a member of an insurance coverage holding firm system is in a hazardous monetary situation or a situation that may be grounds for the supervision, conservation, or delinquency continuing.
HB 193 (Hodges) & SB 759 (Newman) – Drug Management Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Provides sure chemical substances to the Drug Management Act. The Board of Pharmacy has added these substances in an expedited regulatory course of. A substance added through this course of is faraway from the schedule after 18 months except a common regulation is enacted including the substance to the schedule.
HB 1001 (Runion) & SB 55 (Cosgrove) – Amending loss of life certificates. Requires the State Registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting proof testifying to corrected info on a loss of life certificates inside 45 days of the submitting of a loss of life certificates, to amend such loss of life certificates to mirror the brand new info and proof. The invoice additionally requires the State Registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting proof testifying to corrected demographic info on a loss of life certificates greater than 45 days after the submitting of a loss of life certificates, to amend such loss of life certificates to mirror the brand new info and proof.
HB 284 (Coyner)- Actual Property Appraiser Board; persevering with training to incorporate truthful housing or appraisal bias programs. Supplies that any regulation of the Actual Property Appraiser Board setting out persevering with training necessities for actual property appraiser licensees as a prerequisite of license renewal shall embrace a minimum of two hours of truthful housing or appraisal bias programs if the Board requires persevering with training for the renewal of such licenses. The invoice directs the Actual Property Appraiser Board to promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this act that embrace a course of a minimum of two hours regarding truthful housing or appraisal bias and exempts the preliminary adoption of such rules from the Administrative Course of Act, besides that the Board shall present a possibility for public remark previous to adoption of the rules. The invoice has a delayed efficient date of July 1, 2023.
SB 753 (Morrisey) Particular license plates; THE RICHMOND PLANET. Authorizes the issuance of particular license plates commemorating the Richmond Planet newspaper bearing the legend THE RICHMOND PLANET.
HB 218 (Wright) & SB 91 (Ruff)- Constitution; City of Clarksville; city council. Makes numerous adjustments associated to the City of Clarksville’s upcoming transition from Could to November municipal elections.
HB 219 (Wright)- Constitution; City of Kenbridge. Updates the city’s constitution to mirror the upcoming shift in municipal elections from Could to November. As well as, the invoice reduces the mayor’s time period from 4 years to 2 years, starting with the election to be held in November 2024.
HB 220 (Wright) & SB 92 (Ruff) – Constitution; City of Blackstone; elections. Updates election provisions for the City of Blackstone in Nottoway County to mirror the shift from Could to November elections.
HB 957 (Tran) – Classification of actual property. Supplies that starting with taxable yr 2022, any locality might declare actual property owned by a surviving partner of a member of the Armed Forces of the USA who died within the line of responsibility with a line of responsibility dedication from the U.S. Division of Protection, the place such loss of life was not the results of felony conduct, and the place the partner occupies the true property as his principal place of residence and doesn’t remarry, a separate class of property for native taxation of actual property that could be taxed at a unique price than that imposed on the final class of actual property, offered that the speed of tax is bigger than zero and doesn’t exceed the speed of tax on the final class of actual property.
SB 254 (Bell) & HB 426 (Bulova) – Alcoholic beverage management; supply of alcoholic drinks; third-party supply license; container. Creates a third-party supply license that authorizes the licensee to ship alcoholic drinks bought by customers from different retail licensees. The invoice establishes situations for the issuance of third-party supply licenses, imposes eligibility necessities for supply personnel, and units forth necessities for a supply to be made by such supply personnel. The invoice imposes a $2,500 effective for first-time violations of the supply necessities and a $5,000 effective for second and subsequent violations. The invoice additionally establishes container necessities for sure alcoholic drinks bought for off-premises consumption or supply.
SB 63 (Ruff) & HB 16 (Fowler) – Secure haven protections; new child security machine. Supplies an affirmative protection in sure felony prosecutions and civil proceedings concerning baby abuse or neglect to a dad or mum who safely delivers his baby throughout the first 30 days of the kid’s life to a new child security machine situated at a hospital that gives 24-hour emergency companies or at an attended emergency medical companies company that employs emergency medical companies personnel.
HB 691 (Keam) – Enterprise entities; conversion and domestication.Supplies that, for the needs of the Virginia Nonstock Company Act, the Virginia Restricted Legal responsibility Act, and the Virginia Enterprise Belief Act, “entity conversion” has the identical that means as “conversion” as outlined in every respective act and {that a} certificates of entity conversion is identical as a certificates of conversion. Moreover, the invoice gives that “incorporation give up,” “group give up,” and “belief give up” have the identical that means as “domestication” as outlined in every such respective act and {that a} certificates of incorporation give up, certificates of group give up, and a certificates of belief give up are the identical as a certificates of domestication.
SB 28 (Marsden) – Financial improvement; Virginia Enterprise Prepared Websites Program Fund created. Establishes the Virginia Enterprise Prepared Websites Program Fund (the Fund), to be administered by the Governor and the Virginia Financial Improvement Partnership Authority in an effort to present grants on a aggressive foundation to political subdivisions to organize websites for industrial or business improvement. The invoice repeals current regulation that created the Main Employment and Funding Mission Website Planning Grant Fund and gives that any remaining funds can be allotted to the Fund. The invoice additionally authorizes grants from the Virginia Brownfields Restoration and Financial Redevelopment Help Fund for web site remediation and requires the prioritization of websites with potential for redevelopment and financial advantages to the encompassing group.
SB 196 (Mason) & HB 20 (Fowler) – Alcoholic beverage management; tax allocation; funding for Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund. Requires that 20 p.c of the 20 p.c tax levied on alcoholic drinks bought by the Board of Administrators of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Management Authority that’s attributable to the sale of spirits produced by a distiller licensee be deposited within the Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund. The invoice requires the Virginia Spirits Board to submit an annual report back to the Governor and Basic Meeting by October 1 concerning its actions and use of moneys within the Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund.
SB 93 (Howell) & HB 1 (Wright) – Bonds for public establishments of upper studying; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an quantity as much as $100,869,000 for revenue-producing capital initiatives at James Madison College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State College. The invoice accommodates an emergency clause.
HB 2 (Wright) – Constitution; City of Victoria. Amends the constitution for the City of Victoria to mirror the upcoming shift from Could to November municipal elections.
HB 83 (Kilgore) & SB 589 (Pillion) – Constitution; City of St. Charles.
Terminates the City of St. Charles in Lee County.
SB 90 (Stanley) – Breeders of canines and cats for animal testing services; adoption of canines and cats. Requires a breeder of canines and cats on the market or switch to an animal testing facility that not has a necessity for a canine or cat in its possession to supply the animal for adoption previous to euthanizing it. Presently, solely animal testing services are topic to this requirement.
SB 604 (Stanley) – Animal cruelty; companion animals; penalty. Clarifies that animals aren’t thought of companion animals solely when actively concerned in bona fide medical or scientific experimentation. Present regulation exempts animals from the definition of companion animal if they’re regulated underneath federal regulation as analysis animals.
SB 88 (Stanley) – Breeders; data of animals bought or transferred to animal testing facility. Requires any particular person or entity that breeds canines or cats on the market or switch to an animal testing facility to maintain data of every animal for 5 years from the date of the acquisition, switch, or disposition and to quarterly submit a abstract of the data to the State Veterinarian.
HB 1350 (Bell) & SB 87 (Stanley) – Sellers; sale of canines or cats for experimental functions. Prohibits a vendor, business canine breeder, or cat breeder, together with an entity that breeds canines or cats regulated underneath federal regulation as analysis animals, from importing on the market, promoting, or providing on the market a canine or cat bred by an individual who has obtained sure citations on or after July 1, 2023, pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act.
SB 210 (Petersen) & HB 19 (Fowler) – Virginia Public Procurement Act; public establishments of upper training; disclosure required by sure offerors; civil penalty. Requires each offeror who’s awarded a contract by a public establishment of upper training for any development venture that has a complete value of $5 million or extra to reveal any contributions the offeror has made throughout the earlier five-year interval totaling $25,000 or extra to the general public establishment of upper training or any personal basis that exists solely to help the general public establishment of upper training. The invoice gives that no protest of an award shall lie for a declare that the chosen offeror was awarded a contract solely based mostly on such offeror’s contribution to the general public establishment of upper training.
SB 8 (Petersen) – Searching on Sundays. Permits looking on Sunday on public or personal land, as long as it takes place greater than 200 yards from a spot of worship.
HB 927 (Robinson) & SB 3 (Suetterlein)- Elections; voting methods; reporting absentee outcomes by precinct. Contains within the definition of “voting system” on-demand poll printing methods and poll marking gadgets used to fabricate or mark ballots to be forged by voters on digital voting and counting machines. The invoice additionally requires common registrars to report back to the Division of Elections the quantity and outcomes of absentee ballots forged by voters assigned to every precinct within the registrar’s locality. The Division is directed by the invoice to ascertain requirements for ascertaining and reporting such info.
HB 1067 (Scott, P.A.) & SB 355 (Stuart) – Enhanced Nutrient Removing Certainty Program; Fredericksburg wastewater remedy facility. Provides the Fredericksburg wastewater remedy facility to the checklist of precedence initiatives for the Enhanced Nutrient Removing Certainty Program. The invoice gives that the brand new nutrient know-how necessities relevant to the Fredericksburg wastewater remedy facility shall take impact when the expanded facility receives its certificates to function.
HB 1131 (Williams) & SB 417 (Stanley) – Virginia Code Fee; work group to evaluate public notices required to be revealed by localities. Directs the Virginia Code Fee to convene a piece group to evaluate necessities all through the Code of Virginia for localities to offer public discover for meant actions and occasions, together with (i) the various frequency for publishing notices in newspapers and different print media, (ii) the variety of days required to elapse between the publications of notices, and (iii) the quantity of data required to be contained in every discover, and make suggestions for uniformity and effectivity. The invoice requires the Fee to submit a report back to the Chairmen of the Home Committee on Basic Legal guidelines and the Senate Committee on Basic Legal guidelines and Know-how summarizing the work and any suggestions of the work group by November 1, 2022.
SB 15 (Favola) & HB 1156 (Byron) – Non-public household go away insurance coverage. Establishes household go away insurance coverage as a category of insurance coverage. The invoice defines “household go away insurance coverage” as an insurance coverage coverage issued to an employer associated to a profit program offered to an worker to pay for the worker’s revenue loss resulting from (i) the delivery of a kid or adoption of a kid by the worker; (ii) placement of a kid with the worker for foster care; (iii) care of a member of the family of the worker who has a severe well being situation; or (iv) circumstances arising out of the truth that the worker’s member of the family who’s a service member is on lively responsibility or has been notified of an impending name or order to lively responsibility. Underneath the invoice, household go away insurance coverage could also be written as an modification or rider to a gaggle incapacity revenue coverage, included in a gaggle incapacity revenue coverage, or written as a separate group insurance coverage coverage bought by an employer. The invoice prohibits supply or challenge for supply of a household go away insurance coverage coverage except a replica of the shape and the speed guide displaying charges, guidelines, and classification of dangers have been filed with the State Company Fee. The invoice prohibits a person certificates and enrollment kind from being utilized in reference to a gaggle household go away insurance coverage coverage except the shape for the certificates and enrollment kind have been filed with the Fee. The invoice gives that “life and annuities insurance coverage agent” means an agent licensed within the Commonwealth to promote, solicit, or negotiate, amongst different forms of insurance coverage, household go away insurance coverage on behalf of insurers licensed within the Commonwealth.
SB 433 (Dunnavant) & HB 1081 (Byron) – Medical health insurance; calculation of enrollee’s contribution; excessive deductible well being plan. Supplies that if the applying of the requirement {that a} service, when calculating an enrollee’s total contribution to any out-of-pocket most or any cost-sharing requirement underneath a well being plan, embrace any quantities paid by the enrollee or paid on behalf of the enrollee by one other particular person ends in a well being plan’s ineligibility to qualify as a Well being Financial savings Account-qualified Excessive Deductible Well being Plan underneath the federal Inside Income Code, then such requirement shall not apply to such well being plan with respect to the deductible of such well being plan till the enrollee has glad the minimal deductible required by the federal Inside Income Code. The invoice gives such limitation doesn’t apply with respect to gadgets or companies which are thought of preventive care.
SB 629 (Stuart) – Season for taking oysters. Extends from March 1 to March 31 the shut of the season for taking oysters by patent tongs from public oyster beds, rocks, or shoals. Underneath present regulation, the season begins October 1. The invoice permits the Marine Assets Fee to shut the season for any space within the Commonwealth the place using patent tongs is permitted when, in its opinion, the situation of the oysters warrants.
SB 653 (Cosgrove) – Definition of public plane; sundown. Extends from September 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025, the sundown of adjustments made to the definition of “public plane” by the 2018 Session of the Basic Meeting.
HB 654 (Wampler) – Sure GO Virginia Grants; matching funds; sundown. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sundown of the availability that permits a locality to make use of grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Area Revitalization Fee as matching funds for GO Virginia grants.
SB 511 (Suetterlein) – Opioid remedy program pharmacy; treatment shelling out; registered nurses and licensed sensible nurses. Permits registered nurses and licensed sensible nurses practising at an opioid remedy program pharmacy to carry out the duties of a pharmacy technician, offered that every one take-home treatment doses are verified for accuracy by a pharmacist previous to shelling out.
HB 530 (Batten) – Driver coaching. Authorizes governmental entities, together with complete group schools within the Virginia Neighborhood Faculty System, licensed as third celebration testers to check and prepare drivers employed by one other governmental entity or enrolled in a business driver coaching course provided by a group school. The invoice repeals the prohibition on candidates 18 years of age and older retaking abilities checks inside 15 days. Present regulation authorizes such reexamination upon fee of a $2 price. The invoice makes quick as an alternative of contingent on federal rules the repeal of sure provisions requiring an applicant to, after failing the behind the wheel examination for a 3rd time, take a course previous to reexamination. The invoice clarifies that no regulation or regulation safeguarding driver testing info shall be construed to ban (i) the possession, use, or provision of the Division of Motor Automobiles’ driver license examination questions by or to any particular person for the aim of administering a data examination or (ii) the Division from making pattern examination questions accessible to the general public or the general public from possessing pattern examination questions.
HB 542 (Batten) – Elections administration; reclassification of assistant registrars. Reclassifies assistant registrars as deputy registrars.
SB 547 (DeSteph) – Virginia Parole Board; month-to-month experiences. Requires the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to publish a press release concerning any motion taken by the Board on the parole of a prisoner inside 30 days of such motion and to incorporate in such assertion info concerning the size of sentence and the date such sentence was imposed for every prisoner thought of for parole.
HB 553 (O’Quinn) – Secretary of Transportation; business driver’s licenses. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in session and dealing with numerous businesses of the Commonwealth, to advertise and implement numerous initiatives associated to business driver’s licenses. The invoice sunsets on July 1, 2023.
HB 556 (O’Quinn) – Constitution; Metropolis of Bristol; election of council members; metropolis supervisor; chief monetary officer month-to-month assertion for presentation. Adjustments the date of elections within the Metropolis of Bristol from Could to November and the beginning of phrases from July to January. The invoice clarifies the time period inaugural or organizational assembly and adjustments assembly dates that referred to July to January. The invoice adjustments the expiration dates and references to filling vacancies of different boards from June to December and July to January. The invoice gives that the town supervisor’s time period commences on the inaugural or organizational assembly and adjustments the time period expiration from June to December of the identical calendar yr. The invoice gives that the chief monetary officer’s assertion for presentation to the council by the town supervisor is to be submitted both no later than the twenty-fifth day of every month or as quickly as practicable thereafter. The invoice updates the time period “councilman” to “council member” within the constitution.
SB 567 (Stuart) – State Water Management Board; rules; issuance of sure permits. Directs the State Water Management Board to amend sure rules to offer that Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits might also be issued to an current sewage remedy plant constructed and positioned into service previous to January 1, 2001, that serves a minimum of 10 homes however not more than 25 homes if such sewage remedy plant has a documented historical past of considerable noncompliance and can’t feasibly be linked to a publicly owned sewage remedy plant.
SB 590 (Pillion) – License to show dentistry; overseas dental program graduates. Permits the Board of Dentistry to grant, with out examination, a school license to show dentistry in an accredited dental program to a graduate of a dental faculty or school or the dental division of an establishment of upper training in another country that has been granted a certification letter from the dean or program director of an accredited dental program confirming that the applicant has medical competency and medical expertise that meet the credentialing requirements of the dental faculty with which the applicant is to be affiliated. The provisions of the invoice expire on July 1, 2025.
HB 65 (Edmunds) – Stay nutria. Supplies that the present prohibition towards possession, sale, or liberation of nutria doesn’t apply to workers of the Division of Wildlife Assets or sure federal businesses, or any individuals concerned in analysis or administration actions with such businesses.
HB 1305 (Williams) – Pioneer Neighborhood Hospital of Patrick County. Authorizes the reestablishment of a common hospital in Patrick County.
HB 117 (Kilgore) – Attorneys; examinations and issuance of licenses; necessities. Requires, earlier than an applicant is permitted to take the Virginia bar examination, that the applicant furnish to the Board of Bar Examiners passable proof that he has satisfactorily accomplished authorized research amounting to a minimum of 5 semesters, or the equal of a minimum of 5 semesters on a system aside from a semester system, of full-time research at a regulation faculty permitted by the American Bar Affiliation or the Board of Bar Examiners. Underneath present regulation, an applicant is required to have accomplished all diploma necessities of such regulation faculty.
SB 121 (Hackworth) – Division of Skilled and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from the “licensure necessities for contractors” any work undertaken by an individual offering development, transforming, restore, enchancment, elimination, or demolition valued at $25,000 or much less per venture on behalf of a correctly licensed contractor. Present regulation gives this exemption to such work valued at $5,000 or much less per venture.
SB 128 (Obenshain) – Division of Small Enterprise and Provider Range; definitions; small enterprise. Redefines “small enterprise” for the aim of applications for the Division of Small Enterprise and Provider Range and applications for the Virginia Public Procurement Act to permit a cooperative affiliation organized pursuant to Chapter 3 (Cooperative Associations) of Title 13.1 as a nonstock company to qualify as a small enterprise whether it is a minimum of 51 p.c independently managed by a number of members who’re U.S. residents or authorized resident aliens and, along with associates, has 250 or fewer workers or common annual gross receipts of $10 million or much less averaged over the earlier three years.
HB 145 (Head) – Follow of doctor assistants. Removes the requirement that doctor assistants appointed as health workers observe as a part of a affected person care group. For hospice program licensing, the invoice provides doctor assistants to the checklist of hospice personnel who could also be a part of a medically directed interdisciplinary group. The invoice removes a reference to doctor assistants within the definition of affected person care group podiatrist. Lastly, the invoice permits doctor assistants working within the area of orthopedics as a part of a affected person care group to make the most of fluoroscopy for steering of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, offered different necessities are met.
HB 161 (Runion) & SB 99 (Hanger Jr.) – Constitution; City of Grottoes. Establishes a brand new constitution for the City of Grottoes in Rockingham County and repeals the present constitution, which was created in 1997. The proposed constitution units out the group of the city’s authorities and accommodates powers usually granted to cities.
HB 170 (Marshall) – Correctional services; work launch applications. Directs the Secretary of Public Security and Homeland Safety to convene a piece group to review inmate work launch applications. The invoice gives that the work group shall report its findings and proposals to the Secretary of Public Security and Homeland Safety and the Chairmen of the Home Committee for Courts of Justice, Home Committee on Public Security, Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Providers, and Senate Committee on the Judiciary by December 1, 2022.
SB 432 (Dunnavant) – Gross sales tax; taxable lodging. Supplies that, for functions of the retail gross sales and use tax on lodging, the time period “lodging” doesn’t embrace rooms or house provided by an individual within the enterprise of offering convention rooms, assembly house, or occasion house if the particular person doesn’t additionally supply rooms accessible for in a single day sleeping. The substantive provisions of the invoice are given retroactive impact to September 1, 2021, however no taxpayer shall be entitled to a refund for any taxes remitted previous to July 1, 2022.
HB 190 (Hodges) – Constitution; City of Urbanna. Extends the time period for the elected mayor of the City of Urbanna in Middlesex County from two years to 4 years and spells out particular duties of the workplace. The invoice additionally staggers and extends the phrases for council members from two years to 4 years.
HB 197 (Webert) – Public elementary and center colleges; scholar progress assessments. Requires the Board of Schooling, in implementing the through-year progress evaluation system for the administration of studying and arithmetic assessments in grades three via eight, to hunt enter and strategies from every native faculty division within the Commonwealth concerning methods through which the administration of such assessments and the reporting of evaluation outcomes will be improved, and shall, to the extent attainable, incorporate such enter and strategies into the through-year progress evaluation system.
SB 749 (McDougle) – Vintage motor automobiles and vintage trailers; license plates. Requires the Division of Motor Automobiles to just accept a number of requests for a similar license plate quantity for vintage motor automobiles and vintage trailers if the quantity mixture will not be at the moment registered on license plates embossed with the yr matching the plate being requested and just one license plate with the identical quantity mixture has been issued to be used after 1973 or, if the plate requested is for a bike, 1976.
HB 214 (Robinson) – Redevelopment and housing authorities; naming conference. Supplies {that a} locality that establishes a redevelopment and housing authority might identify such authority an acceptable identify and title. Present regulation requires the authority to be referred to as the “___________ (insert identify of locality) Redevelopment and Housing Authority.” The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
SB 145 (Cosgrove) – Illegal use of subaqueous beds; substitute of piers. Excludes the upkeep or substitute of beforehand licensed piers from Virginia Marine Assets Fee allowing necessities, as long as the reconstructed pier is within the exiting footprint of the unique pier.
HB 184 (Marshall) – Virginia Stormwater Administration Packages; regional industrial facility authorities. Authorizes a locality that administers a Virginia Stormwater Administration Program (VSMP) or a Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Administration Program (VESMP) to manage such program of a regional industrial facility authority of which the locality is a member. The invoice requires that such administration be performed in accordance with an settlement entered into with all related localities and the present VSMP or VESMP for the property.
SB 183 (Ruff) – Cemetery Board; appointment of receiver upon revocation or give up of license to function cemetery in Virginia. Requires the Cemetery Board to petition a court docket of document having fairness jurisdiction over the licensee or any of the funds held by him if the Board has purpose to consider that (i) the licensee will not be capable of adequately defend the curiosity of the particular person concerned; (ii) the licensee has had his license suspended, revoked, or surrendered; and (iii) the conduct of the licensee or the operation of the cemetery threatens the pursuits of the general public. Present regulation permits, however doesn’t require, the Board to file such petition upon a displaying of a minimum of one of many three necessities. If a receiver is appointed, the invoice gives that the bills of such receivership and an inexpensive price, as decided by the court docket, shall be paid from the belongings of the cemetery firm.
HB 1178 (Avoli) – Division of Labor and Business; seizure first help info. Directs the Division of Labor and Business to disseminate info concerning seizure first help, outlined within the invoice, to all employers and workers within the Commonwealth and requires all employers of 25 or extra workers to bodily put up this info in a distinguished location within the office. The invoice incorporates the “Good Samaritan” provision of the Code of Virginia that shields an individual from legal responsibility when rendering emergency care in good religion underneath sure circumstances.
HB 1092 (Kilgore) – Nonrepairable and rebuilt automobiles; sundown. Repeals the sundown clause for sure amendments associated to definitions of nonrepairable and rebuilt automobiles. As enacted in 2017, the amendments would have expired on July 1, 2021. Nevertheless, language in Merchandise 436 of Chapter 552 of the Acts of Meeting of 2021, Particular Session I (the Appropriation Act), offered that, however some other regulation, the amendments would stay in place till July 1, 2022. The invoice makes the amendments everlasting.
HB 146 (Head) – Insurance coverage; examinations; supplier complaints. Supplies that any particular person might submit a criticism of noncompliance by an insurer with any insurance coverage regulation, regulation, or order of the State Company Fee on behalf of a well being care supplier. The invoice gives that the Fee shall examine such complaints and notify the complainants of the outcomes, however that the Fee shall not have jurisdiction to adjudicate particular person controversies or issues of contractual dispute.
HB 267 (McNamara) & SB 12 (Suetterlein) – Native taxes; surplus revenues. Grants localities permissive authority to return surplus private property tax revenues to taxpayers. Underneath present regulation, localities might return solely surplus actual property tax revenues.
HB 200 (Webert) – Actual property tax; exemptions. Supplies that the property of a corporation that’s tax exempt by classification shall embrace the property of a single member restricted legal responsibility firm whose sole member is such a corporation.
HB 1215 (Ransone) – Bodily training; private security coaching. Requires any bodily training class provided to college students in grades seven and eight to incorporate a minimum of one hour of non-public security coaching per faculty yr in every such grade stage that’s developed and delivered in partnership with the native law-enforcement company and consists of situational security consciousness coaching and social media training.
HB 1204 (Kilgore) – Renewable power certificates; precedence of procurement. Requires American Electrical Energy and Dominion Vitality Virginia, for renewable power portfolio customary (RPS) program compliance years 2023 and 2024, to prioritize procurement of renewable power certificates (RECs) from renewable power customary sources (RPS eligible sources) situated within the Commonwealth, offered that such RECs are cost-competitive when put next with out-of-state sources on the time of procurement. Moreover, the invoice requires every utility to incorporate in its annual submitting for RPS program compliance years 2023 and 2024 a plan for prioritizing procurement of RECs from RPS eligible sources which are each (i) cost-competitive and (ii) eligible for the Virginia Brownfield and Coal Mine Renewable Vitality Grant Fund and Program.
HB 99 (Head) – Persevering with training; funeral service licensees, funeral administrators, and embalmers. Supplies that permitted persevering with training programs for funeral service licensees, funeral administrators, and embalmers shall embrace both one hour of compliance with legal guidelines and rules governing the occupation or one hour of preneed funeral preparations per yr, offered that a minimum of one hour of continuous training concerning preneed funeral preparations is accomplished each three years. Present regulation requires a minimum of one hour of compliance with legal guidelines and rules governing the occupation and a minimum of one hour of preneed funeral preparations per yr. The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
HB 91 (Head) – Board of Well being; price for Certificates of Delivery Leading to Stillbirth. Removes the requirement that the Board of Well being prescribe an inexpensive price to cowl the executive value and preparation of a Certificates of Delivery Leading to Stillbirth.
HB 93 (Head) – Division of Well being; dwelling care organizations; license renewal. Adjustments the license renewal requirement for dwelling care organizations from an annual renewal to a triennial renewal. The invoice prohibits the Division of Well being, upon renewal of a house care group license, from requiring dwelling care organizations to submit monetary paperwork aside from these required for preliminary licensure.
HB 84 (Kilgore) – Volunteer audiologists. Permits out-of-state audiologists to volunteer to offer free well being care to an underserved space of the Commonwealth underneath the auspices of a publicly supported nonprofit group that sponsors the availability of well being care to populations of underserved folks in the event that they accomplish that for a interval not exceeding three consecutive days and if the nonprofit group verifies that the practitioner has a sound, unrestricted license in one other state.
HB 50 (Fariss) – Secure haven protections; hotline to offer details about toddler relinquishment legal guidelines and choices. Directs the Division of Social Providers to ascertain a toll-free, 24-hour hotline to make details about the Commonwealth’s secure haven legal guidelines that present for relinquishment of an toddler, toddler relinquishment areas, and help and sources accessible for folks accessible to the general public and to make details about the hotline, together with the toll-free quantity that could be used to contact the hotline, accessible on its web site. The invoice additionally directs the Division to undertake a marketing campaign to extend public consciousness of the Commonwealth’s legal guidelines offering for relinquishment of an toddler and the hotline established pursuant to the invoice.
HB 49 (Fariss) – James State Scenic River. Designates an extra 37-mile portion of the James River operating via Nelson and Appomattox Counties as a part of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System. The invoice additionally gives that nothing within the Scenic Rivers Act shall preclude the development, use, or elimination of any asset that traverses sure parts of the James River.
HB 44 (Ware) – Commonplace nonforfeiture provisions for all times insurance coverage; minimal nonforfeiture quantities; rates of interest. Decreases the minimal nonforfeiture quantity rate of interest from one p.c to 0.15 p.c.
HB 1326 (Kilgore) – Electrical utilities; elimination of waste coal from beforehand mined websites; Fee on Electrical Utility Regulation; sundown. Supplies that, in furtherance of the necessity to tackle the environmental hazards of deserted coal mines, the elimination of waste coal from beforehand mined websites within the coalfield area of the Commonwealth is within the public curiosity. The invoice extends the sundown date for the Fee on Electrical Utility Regulation from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2024, and gives that the Fee might evaluate info on the approximate quantity and variety of waste coal piles current within the coalfield area of the Commonwealth and choices for cleansing up such waste coal piles.
HB 272 (Marshall) & SB 501 (Lewis) – Native land use approvals; extension of approvals to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sundown date for numerous native land use approvals that have been legitimate and excellent as of July 1, 2020. The invoice additionally gives that its provisions shall not be construed to increase earlier extensions associated to the COVID-19 housing disaster. This invoice is equivalent to SB 501.
HB 62 (Ward) – Insurance coverage; out of date provisions and see. Removes an exception to the regulation of insurance coverage charges by the State Company Fee regarding sure car bodily harm and property harm legal responsibility insurance coverage insurance policies. The invoice removes provisions requiring the Fee to mail a replica of sure orders concerning motorized vehicle insurance coverage varieties to insurers and price service organizations and as an alternative requires the Fee to offer discover of such orders. Lastly, the invoice repeals a provision requiring that protection of airtrip accident insurance policies prolong in sure instances to connecting or returning planes.
HB 648 (Kory) – Complete plan; substantial accord; parks. Clarifies provisions associated as to whether sure public services are considerably in accord with the adopted complete plan by including parks to the forms of public makes use of that will, with sure forms of land use functions, be excepted from the requirement for submittal to and approval by the planning fee or the governing physique for the aim of figuring out substantial accord.
SB 677 (Lewis) – Staff’ compensation; value of residing dietary supplements. Supplies that cost-of-living dietary supplements shall be payable to claimants who’re receiving incapacity advantages underneath the Virginia Staff’ Compensation Act however aren’t receiving federal incapacity advantages.
SB 34 (Marsden) – Digital credentials; price. Makes discretionary the quantity of the price, as much as $10 per yr, assessed by the Division of Motor Automobiles for every particular person issued digital credentials or granted entry to an digital credential. Underneath present regulation, the price is fastened at $10 per yr. The invoice authorizes the Division to challenge digital registration playing cards to people who maintain a sound bodily registration card and clarifies when a bodily registration card is required.
HB 286 (Adams, D.M) – Nurse practitioners; declaration of loss of life and reason for loss of life. Authorizes autonomous nurse practitioners, outlined within the invoice, to declare loss of life and decide reason for loss of life; permits nurse practitioners who aren’t autonomous nurse practitioners to pronounce the loss of life of a affected person in sure circumstances; and eliminates the requirement for a sound Do Not Resuscitate Order for the deceased affected person for declaration of loss of life by a registered nurse, doctor assistant, or nurse practitioner who will not be an autonomous nurse practitioner.
HB 141 (McQuinn) & SB 158 (Hashmi) – Virginia Black, Indigenous, and Individuals of Colour Historic Preservation Fund established. Establishes the Virginia Black, Indigenous, and Individuals of Colour Historic Preservation Fund for the aim of awarding grants to eligible state-recognized and federally acknowledged Indian tribes, personal nonprofit organizations, and localities for the eligible prices of buying land or everlasting protecting curiosity therein, and of enterprise preservation actions on such land, that’s of cultural or historic significance to Black, indigenous, or folks of colour communities. The invoice gives that land or pursuits acquired with grant funds shall grant the Board of Historic Assets or different holder a perpetual preservation curiosity within the property.
SB 477 (McClellan) & HB 140 (McQuinn) – Historic African American cemeteries. Adjustments the date of firm that qualifies historic African American cemeteries for appropriated funds to take care of such cemeteries from previous to January 1, 1900, to previous to January 1, 1948, and gives that the overall variety of graves in a qualifying cemetery shall be the variety of markers of African Individuals who have been interred in such cemetery previous to January 1, 1948. Underneath present regulation, the overall variety of graves is the variety of markers of African Individuals who lived at any time between January 1, 1800, and January 1, 1900.
SB 194 (Mason) – Insurance coverage; public adjusters; requirements of conduct. Prohibits a public adjuster from partaking in any exercise that will moderately be construed as a battle of curiosity, together with soliciting or accepting any remuneration of any type or nature, immediately or not directly, besides as set forth in a public adjusting contract with an insured. Moreover, the invoice gives that for the needs of the prohibition on a public adjuster having a monetary curiosity in an insured’s declare, “monetary curiosity” consists of participation by a public adjuster, immediately or not directly, within the reconstruction, restore, or restoration of broken property that’s the topic of a declare adjusted by that public adjuster. The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
HB 138 (McQuinn) & SB 476 (McClellan) – Central Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Provides the Chief Govt Officer of the Capital Area Airport Fee as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority.
SB 129 (Morrissey) – Research; Board of Funeral Administrators and Embalmers; alkaline hydrolysis work group; report. Directs the Board of Funeral Administrators and Embalmers to convene a piece group to review how you can legalize, implement, and regulate the method of alkaline hydrolysis within the Commonwealth. The invoice requires the Board to report the outcomes of the research to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Schooling and Well being and the Home Committee on Well being, Welfare and Establishments on or earlier than November 1, 2022.
HB 1108 (Rasoul) – Public colleges; instruction regarding playing. Requires instruction regarding playing and the addictive potential thereof to be offered by the general public colleges as prescribed by the Board of Schooling. The invoice requires the Board of Schooling to report back to the Chairmen of Home Committee on Schooling and the Senate Committee on Schooling and Well being an outline of such instruction.
HB 1112 (Cordoza) – Virginia Marine Assets Fee; saltwater fishing licenses. Requires the Virginia Marine Assets Fee to offer an choice to buy a multiyear leisure saltwater fishing license.
HB 1251 (Fowler) – Alcoholic beverage management; operation of presidency shops; sale of nonalcoholic spirit options. Permits authorities shops of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Management Authority to promote nonalcoholic spirit options.
HB 239 (Adams, D.M.) & SB 263 (Hashmi) – Housing and Supportive Providers Interagency Management Workforce initiative; housing and companies for adults 65 years of age or older. Directs the Division for Housing and Neighborhood Improvement to develop the present Housing and Supportive Providers Interagency Management Workforce (ILT) initiative to incorporate adults 65 years of age or older as a goal subpopulation and search enter from acceptable stakeholders to facilitate the event of methods for growing the availability of everlasting supportive housing for adults 65 years of age or older.
HB 285 (Adams, D.M.) – Medical nurse specialist; observe agreements. Supplies {that a} nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medication and Nursing within the class of medical nurse specialist who doesn’t prescribe managed substances or gadgets might observe within the observe class through which he’s licensed and licensed and not using a written or digital observe settlement, offered that he (i) solely observe throughout the scope of his medical {and professional} coaching and limits of his data and expertise and in step with the relevant requirements of care, (ii) seek the advice of and collaborate with different well being care suppliers based mostly on the medical situation of the affected person to whom well being care is offered, and (iii) set up a plan for referral of complicated medical instances and emergencies to physicians or different acceptable well being care suppliers. The invoice additionally gives {that a} nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards within the class of medical nurse specialist who prescribes managed substances or gadgets shall observe in session with a licensed doctor in accordance with a observe settlement between the nurse practitioner and the licensed doctor.
SB 169 (Peake) – Licensed sensible nurses; authority to pronounce loss of life. Extends to licensed sensible nurses the authority to pronounce the loss of life of a affected person in hospice, offered that sure situations are met. Present regulation gives that physicians, registered nurses, and doctor assistants might pronounce loss of life.
HB 52 (Morefield) & SB627 (Hackworth) – Constitution; City of Tazewell; board of zoning appeals. Will increase the time period size for members of the board of zoning appeals for the City of Tazewell from two to 5 years.
SB 325 (Reeves) – Alcoholic beverage management; transportation of alcoholic drinks. Will increase from one gallon to a few gallons the quantity of alcoholic drinks that an individual might transport into the Commonwealth and consolidates present regulation concerning the transportation of alcoholic drinks into or throughout the Commonwealth. The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
HB 1083 (Leftwich) – Tax assessments; notices. Requires the Division of Taxation to establish on payments for omitted tax assessments the date the preliminary tax return or fee was obtained by the Division, any fee quantities obtained from the taxpayer, and a proof of the taxes, penalties, and curiosity associated to such evaluation starting on January 1, 2023.
SB 185 (Ruff) & HB269 – Revenue tax; main enterprise facility job tax credit score; sundown. Extends the sundown of the most important enterprise facility job tax credit score from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2025.
