This week, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed over 100 payments into legislation together with laws that provides mother and father extra management over what their kids are being taught, helps shore up animal cruelty guidelines, and reforms insufficient sexual assault legal guidelines.
“HB 938, carried by Delegate Roxann Robinson, and SB 656, carried by Senator Siobhan Dunnavant, both deliver on my Day One promises to give parents a greater say in their children’s education. I’m pleased to sign them into law, along with many other bipartisan bills that will enhance education, improve public safety, provide tax relief, and make government work better for the people of Virginia,” mentioned Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Below is a abstract of the payments that had been signed:
HB 938 (Robinson) – Board of Education; stakeholder group; analysis of and suggestions for sure present and proposed insurance policies and efficiency requirements for public elementary and secondary faculties. Requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of Education to convene a gaggle of stakeholders to incorporate mother and father, public faculty principals, public faculty superintendents, public faculty board members, public faculty academics, establishments of upper schooling, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, trade companions and employers, and different involved stakeholders to guage, to implement the place potential, and to in any other case make suggestions to the General Assembly relating to the next objectives: (i) selling excellence in instruction and scholar achievement in arithmetic; (ii) increasing the Advanced Studies Diploma as an possibility for college students in public excessive faculties within the Commonwealth; (iii) growing the transparency and honesty of efficiency measures for public elementary and secondary faculties within the Commonwealth; (iv) guaranteeing that efficiency measures for public elementary and secondary faculties prioritize the attainment of grade-level proficiency and development through the course of a faculty 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 Standards of Learning assessments in studying and arithmetic are maintained; and (vi) guaranteeing a powerful accreditation system that promotes significant accountability year-over-year. The invoice requires the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, no later than November 30, 2022, to report back to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health the outcomes of such analysis and suggestions to attain such objectives.
SB 656 (Dunnavant) – Department of Education; native faculty boards; insurance policies on sexually specific content material in tutorial materials. Requires the Department of Education 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 tutorial materials that features sexually specific content material and embody data, steerage, procedures, and requirements referring to (i) guaranteeing parental notification; (ii) immediately figuring out the precise tutorial materials and sexually specific topics; and (iii) allowing the dad or mum of any scholar to evaluation tutorial materials that features sexually specific content material and present, instead, nonexplicit tutorial materials, and associated tutorial actions to any scholar whose dad or mum so requests. The invoice supplies that the native faculty board insurance policies shall be in line with however possibly extra complete than the mannequin insurance policies developed by the Department. 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 faculties.
HB 225 (Coyner) & SB 321 (Vogel) – Health insurance coverage; definition of autism spectrum dysfunction. Provides that for the needs of required medical insurance protection for the prognosis and remedy of autism spectrum dysfunction, “autism spectrum disorder” means any pervasive developmental dysfunction or autism spectrum dysfunction, as outlined in the newest version or the newest version on the time of prognosis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association and “medically necessary” means in accordance with the commonly accepted requirements of psychological dysfunction or situation care and clinically acceptable by way of kind, frequency, website, and period, primarily based 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 useful capability in performing each day actions, taking into consideration each the useful capability of the person and the useful capacities which can be acceptable for people of the identical age.
SB 202 (Newman) – Study; Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; enhance use of other custody preparations for people topic to an emergency custody or momentary detention order; report. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, along with the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, to check choices to extend using different custody preparations for people who’re topic to emergency custody or momentary detention order and to report his findings and suggestions to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Education and Health and Finance and Appropriations by October 1, 2022.
HB 236 (Orrock) Board of Education; authority to briefly prolong sure academics’ licenses. Permits the Board of Education to grant a two-year extension of the license of any particular person licensed by the Board of Education pursuant to its statutory authority whose license expires on June 30, 2022, so as to present the person with ample further time to finish the necessities for licensure or license renewal. The invoice accommodates an emergency clause.
HB 223 (Coyner) & SB 437 (Dunnavant)- Insurance for workers of sure public faculty foundations. Provides that any locality could present group life, accident, and medical insurance packages for workers of sure public faculty foundations.
SB 212 (Kiggans)- Special license plates; United States Navy; Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Fund. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing particular license plates with a design that comes with the logo of the United States Navy to energetic members and sure veterans of the United States Navy. The invoice supplies that un-remarried surviving spouses of such service members can also be issued such particular license plates. The invoice creates the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Fund to make the most of funds from the license plate charges to assist the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society in Virginia.
HB 1278 (Wiley) – Conveyance of sure property; situations. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to convey sure property to the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. Any deed of conveyance shall embody a situation that the property is 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 to ascertain a pilot mission for an index of wills lodged for safekeeping, with a searchable database out there to the general public.
SB 227 (Obenshain) – Misdemeanor sexual offenses the place the sufferer is a minor; statute of limitations; penalty. Provides 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. Under present legislation, the prosecution of such an offense shall be commenced inside one yr after fee of the offense.
HB 238 (Orrock) – Land use evaluation; kinds. Provides that the kinds used for revalidation of purposes for land use evaluation shall be ready by the Department of Taxation. Under present legislation, such kinds are ready by the locality. The invoice directs the Department to hunt enter from localities throughout the Commonwealth in creating such kinds.
HB 235 (Orrock) – Rehabilitation hospitals; preparations for follow-up care. Directs the Board of Health to convene a workgroup to supply suggestions relating to laws requiring hospitals to develop protocols for connecting sufferers receiving rehabilitation companies to mandatory follow-up care. The invoice requires the workgroup to report its suggestions to the Board of Health by October 1, 2022.
HB 82 (Kilgore) – Insurance holding firm methods; group capital calculation and liquidity stress take a look at. Requires that sure insurers which can be members of an insurance coverage holding firm system file a gaggle capital calculation in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Group Capital Calculation Instructions and a liquidity stress take a look at in accordance with the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework. The invoice supplies exceptions to such reporting necessities and accommodates numerous provisions relating to the confidentiality of data contained in such studies. The invoice authorizes the State Corporation Commission 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 might be grounds for the supervision, conservation, or delinquency continuing.
HB 193 (Hodges) & SB 759 (Newman) – Drug Control Act; Schedule I; Schedule II; Schedule IV; Schedule V. Adds sure chemical substances to the Drug Control 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 until a basic legislation is enacted including the substance to the schedule.
HB 1001 (Runion) & SB 55 (Cosgrove) – Amending dying certificates. Requires the State Registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting proof testifying to corrected data on a dying certificates inside 45 days of the submitting of a dying certificates, to amend such dying certificates to replicate the brand new data and proof. The invoice additionally requires the State Registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting proof testifying to corrected demographic data on a dying certificates greater than 45 days after the submitting of a dying certificates, to amend such dying certificates to replicate the brand new data and proof.
HB 284 (Coyner) – Real Estate Appraiser Board; persevering with schooling to incorporate truthful housing or appraisal bias programs. Provides that any regulation of the Real Estate Appraiser Board setting out persevering with schooling necessities for actual property appraiser licensees as a prerequisite of license renewal shall embody no less than two hours of truthful housing or appraisal bias programs if the Board requires persevering with schooling for the renewal of such licenses. The invoice directs the Real Estate Appraiser Board to promulgate laws to implement the provisions of this act that embody a course of no less than two hours referring to truthful housing or appraisal bias and exempts the preliminary adoption of such laws from the Administrative Process Act, besides that the Board shall present a possibility for public remark previous to the adoption of the laws. The invoice has a delayed efficient date of July 1, 2023.
SB 753 (Morrisey) – Special 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) – Charter; Town of Clarksville; city council. Makes numerous adjustments associated to the Town of Clarksville’s upcoming transition from May to November municipal elections.
HB 219 (Wright) – Charter; Town of Kenbridge. Updates the city’s constitution to replicate the upcoming shift in municipal elections from May to November. In addition, 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) – Charter; Town of Blackstone; elections. Updates election provisions for the Town of Blackstone in Nottoway County to replicate the shift from May to November elections.
HB 957 (Tran) – Classification of actual property. Provides that starting with the taxable yr 2022, any locality could declare actual property owned by a surviving partner of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who died within the line of obligation with a line of obligation dedication from the U.S. Department of Defense, the place such dying was not the results of legal 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 which may be taxed at a distinct charge than that imposed on the overall class of actual property, offered that the speed of tax is bigger than zero and doesn’t exceed the speed of tax on the overall 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 shoppers 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 high-quality for first-time violations of the supply necessities and a $5,000 high-quality for second and subsequent violations. The invoice additionally establishes container necessities for sure alcoholic drinks offered for off-premises consumption or supply.
SB 63 (Ruff) & HB 16 (Fowler) – Safe haven protections; new child security machine. Provides an affirmative protection in sure legal prosecutions and civil proceedings relating to 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) – Business entities; conversion and domestication. Provides that, for the needs of the Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act, the Virginia Limited Liability Act, and the Virginia Business Trust Act, “entity conversion” has the identical which means as “conversion” as outlined in every respective act and {that a} certificates of entity conversion is identical as a certificates of conversion. Additionally, the invoice supplies that “incorporation surrender,” “organization surrender,” and “trust surrender” have the identical which 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) – Economic improvement; Virginia Business Ready Sites Program Fund created. Establishes the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program Fund (the Fund), to be administered by the Governor and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority so as to present grants on a aggressive foundation to political subdivisions to organize websites for industrial or business improvement. The invoice repeals present legislation that created the Major Employment and Investment Project Site Planning Grant Fund and supplies that any remaining funds could be allotted to the Fund. The invoice additionally authorizes grants from the Virginia Brownfields Restoration and Economic Redevelopment Assistance Fund for website remediation and requires the prioritization of web sites with potential for redevelopment and financial advantages to the encompassing neighborhood.
SB 196 (Mason) & HB 20 (Fowler) – Alcoholic beverage management; tax allocation; funding for Virginia Spirits Promotion Fund. Requires that 20 % of the 20 % tax levied on alcoholic drinks offered by the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control 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 General Assembly by October 1 relating to 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 tasks at James Madison University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The invoice accommodates an emergency clause.
HB 2 (Wright) – Charter; Town of Victoria. Amends the constitution for the Town of Victoria to replicate the upcoming shift from May to November municipal elections.
HB 83 (Kilgore) & SB 589 (Pillion) – Charter; Town of St. Charles. Terminates the Town of St. Charles in Lee County.
SB 90 (Stanley) – Breeders of canines and cats for animal testing amenities; adoption of canines and cats. Requires a breeder of canines and cats for sale 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. Currently, solely animal testing amenities 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. Current legislation exempts animals from the definition of companion animals if they’re regulated below federal legislation as analysis animals.
SB 88 (Stanley) – Breeders; data of animals offered or transferred to an animal testing facility. Requires any individual or entity that breeds canines or cats for sale 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) – Dealers; 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 below federal legislation as analysis animals, from importing for sale, promoting, or providing for sale 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 schooling; disclosure required by sure offerors; civil penalty. Requires each offeror who’s awarded a contract by a public establishment of upper schooling for any development mission that has a complete price 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 schooling or any private basis that exists solely to assist the general public establishment of upper schooling. The invoice supplies that no protest of an award shall lie for a declare that the chosen offeror was awarded a contract solely primarily based on such offeror’s contribution to the general public establishment of upper schooling.
SB 8 (Petersen) – Hunting on Sundays. Permits searching on Sunday on public or private 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. Includes within the definition of “voting system” on-demand poll printing methods and poll marking units used to fabricate or mark ballots to be forged by voters on digital voting and counting machines. The invoice additionally requires basic registrars to report back to the Department of Elections the quantity and outcomes of absentee ballots forged by voters assigned to every precinct within the registrar’s locality. The Department is directed by the invoice to ascertain requirements for ascertaining and reporting such data.
HB 1067 (Scott, P.A.) & SB 355 (Stuart) – Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program; Fredericksburg wastewater remedy facility. Adds the Fredericksburg wastewater remedy facility to the listing of precedence tasks for the Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. The invoice supplies that the brand new nutrient expertise 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 Commission; workgroup to evaluation public notices required to be printed by localities. Directs the Virginia Code Commission to convene a workgroup to evaluation necessities all through the Code of Virginia for localities to supply 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 Commission to submit a report back to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology summarizing the work and any suggestions of the workgroup by November 1, 2022.
SB 15 (Favola) & HB 1156 (Byron) – Private household depart insurance coverage. Establishes household depart insurance coverage as a category of insurance coverage. The invoice defines “family leave insurance” 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 because of (i) the beginning 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 energetic obligation or has been notified of an impending name or order to energetic obligation. Under the invoice, household depart 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 problem for supply of a household depart insurance coverage coverage until a duplicate of the shape and the speed handbook exhibiting charges, guidelines, and classification of dangers have been filed with the State Corporation Commission. The invoice prohibits a person certificates and enrollment type from being utilized in reference to a gaggle household depart insurance coverage coverage until the shape for the certificates and enrollment type has been filed with the Commission. The invoice supplies that “life and annuities insurance agent” means an agent licensed within the Commonwealth to promote, solicit, or negotiate, amongst different forms of insurance coverage, household depart insurance coverage on behalf of insurers licensed within the Commonwealth.
SB 433 (Dunnavant) & HB 1081 (Byron) – Health insurance coverage; calculation of enrollee’s contribution; excessive deductible well being plan. Provides that if the appliance of the requirement {that a} provider, when calculating an enrollee’s total contribution to any out-of-pocket most or any cost-sharing requirement below a well being plan, embody any quantities paid by the enrollee or paid on behalf of the enrollee by one other individual ends in a well being plan’s ineligibility to qualify as a Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plan below the federal Internal Revenue 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 Internal Revenue Code. The invoice supplies such limitations don’t apply with respect to gadgets or companies which can be 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. Under present legislation, the season begins on October 1. The invoice permits the Marine Resources Commission 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 aircraft” by the 2018 Session of the General Assembly.
HB 654 (Wampler) – Certain GO Virginia Grants; matching funds; sundown. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sundown of the supply that enables a locality to make use of grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants.
SB 511 (Suetterlein) – Opioid remedy program pharmacy; medicine allotting; registered nurses and licensed sensible nurses. Allows registered nurses and licensed sensible nurses working towards at an opioid remedy program pharmacy to carry out the duties of a pharmacy technician, offered that each one take-home medicine doses are verified for accuracy by a pharmacist previous to allotting.
HB 530 (Batten) – Driver coaching. Authorizes governmental entities, together with complete neighborhood schools within the Virginia Community College System, licensed as third-party testers to check and prepare drivers employed by one other governmental entity or enrolled in a business driver coaching course provided by a neighborhood school. The invoice repeals the prohibition on candidates 18 years of age and older retaking expertise assessments inside 15 days. Current legislation authorizes such reexamination upon fee of a $2 payment. The invoice makes rapid as an alternative of contingent on federal laws the repeal of sure provisions requiring an applicant to, after failing the behind-the-wheel examination for the third time, take a course previous to reexamination. The invoice clarifies that no legislation or regulation safeguarding driver testing data shall be construed to ban (i) the possession, use, or provision of the Department of Motor Vehicles’ driver license examination questions by or to any individual for the aim of administering a information examination or (ii) the Department from making pattern examination questions out there 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 studies. Requires the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to publish a press release relating to any motion taken by the Board on the parole of a prisoner inside 30 days of such motion and to incorporate in such assertion data relating to 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 working 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) – Charter; City of Bristol; election of council members; metropolis supervisor; chief monetary officer month-to-month assertion for presentation. Changes the date of elections within the City of Bristol from May 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 referred from July to January. The invoice adjustments the expiration dates and references for filling vacancies on different boards from June to December and July to January. The invoice supplies 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 supplies 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 Control Board; laws; issuance of sure permits. Directs the State Water Control Board to amend sure laws to supply that Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits can also be issued to an present sewage remedy plant constructed and positioned into service previous to January 1, 2001, that serves no less than 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. Allows the Board of Dentistry to grant, with out examination, a college 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 schooling abroad 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) – Live nutria. Provides that the present prohibition towards possession, sale, or liberation of nutria doesn’t apply to workers of the Department of Wildlife Resources or sure federal businesses or any individuals concerned in analysis or administration actions with such businesses.
HB 1305 (Williams) – Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County. Authorizes the reestablishment of a basic 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 furnishes to the Board of Bar Examiners passable proof that he has satisfactorily accomplished authorized research amounting to no less than 5 semesters, or the equal of no less than 5 semesters on a system aside from a semester system, of full-time research at a legislation faculty permitted by the American Bar Association or the Board of Bar Examiners. Under present legislation, an applicant is required to have accomplished all diploma necessities of such legislation faculty.
SB 121 (Hackworth) – Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Board for Contractors; exemption from licensure. Exempts from the “licensure requirements for contractors” any work undertaken by an individual offering development, transforming, restore, improvement, removing, or demolition valued at $25,000 or much less per mission on behalf of a correctly licensed contractor. Current legislation supplies this exemption to such work valued at $5,000 or much less per mission.
SB 128 (Obenshain) – Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small enterprise. Redefines “small business” for the aim of packages for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and packages 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 no less than 51 % 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) – Practice of doctor assistants. Removes the requirement that doctor assistants appointed as health workers observe as a part of a affected person care crew. For hospice program licensing, the invoice provides doctor assistants to the listing of hospice personnel who could also be a part of a medically directed interdisciplinary crew. The invoice removes a reference to doctor assistants within the definition of affected person care crew podiatrist. Finally, the invoice permits doctor assistants working within the subject of orthopedics as a part of a affected person care crew to make the most of fluoroscopy for steerage of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, offered different necessities are met.
HB 161 (Runion) & SB 99 (Hanger Jr.) – Charter; Town of Grottoes. Establishes a brand new constitution for the Town 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 amenities; work launch packages. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to convene a workgroup to check inmate work launch packages. The invoice supplies that the workgroup shall report its findings and suggestions to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Chairmen of the House Committee for Courts of Justice, House Committee on Public Safety, Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Senate Committee on the Judiciary by December 1, 2022.
SB 432 (Dunnavant) – Sales tax; taxable lodging. Provides that, for functions of the retail gross sales and use tax on lodging, the time period “accommodations” doesn’t embody rooms or house provided by an individual within the enterprise of offering convention rooms, assembly house, or occasion house if the individual doesn’t additionally supply rooms out there 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) – Charter; Town of Urbanna. Extends the time period for the elected mayor of the Town of Urbanna in Middlesex County from two years to 4 years and spells out particular obligations 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 faculties; scholar development assessments. Requires the Board of Education, in implementing the through-year development evaluation system for the administration of studying and arithmetic assessments in grades three via eight, to hunt enter and recommendations from every native faculty division within the Commonwealth relating to methods by which the administration of such assessments and the reporting of evaluation outcomes might be improved, and shall, to the extent potential, incorporate such enter and recommendations into the through-year development evaluation system.
SB 749 (McDougle) – Antique motor autos and vintage trailers; license plates. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to just accept a number of requests for the identical license plate quantity for vintage motor autos and vintage trailers if the quantity mixture will not be presently 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 for use after 1973 or, if the plate requested is for a bike, 1976.
HB 214 (Robinson) – Redevelopment and housing authorities; naming conference. Provides {that a} locality that establishes a redevelopment and housing authority could title such authority an acceptable title and title. Current legislation requires the authority to be often called the “___________ (insert name of locality) Redevelopment and Housing Authority.” The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
SB 145 (Cosgrove) – Unlawful use of subaqueous beds; substitute of piers. Excludes the upkeep or substitute of beforehand approved piers from Virginia Marine Resources Commission allowing necessities, as long as the reconstructed pier is within the present footprint of the unique pier.
HB 184 (Marshall) – Virginia Stormwater Management Programs; regional industrial facility authorities. Authorizes a locality that administers a Virginia Stormwater Management Program (VSMP) or a Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management 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 carried out 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 the license to function cemetery in Virginia. Requires the Cemetery Board to petition a court docket of report having fairness jurisdiction over the licensee or any of the funds held by him if the Board has motive to consider that (i) the licensee will not be capable of adequately defend the curiosity of the individual 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. Current legislation permits however doesn’t require, the Board to file such a petition upon a exhibiting of no less than one of many three necessities. If a receiver is appointed, the invoice supplies that the bills of such receivership and an inexpensive payment, as decided by the court docket, shall be paid from the belongings of the cemetery firm.
HB 1178 (Avoli) – Department of Labor and Industry; seizure first help data. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to disseminate data relating to 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 submit this data in a outstanding 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 below sure circumstances.
HB 1092 (Kilgore) – Nonrepairable and rebuilt autos; sundown. Repeals the sundown clause for sure amendments associated to definitions of nonrepairable and rebuilt autos. As enacted in 2017, the amendments would have expired on July 1, 2021. However, language in Item 436 of Chapter 552 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I (the Appropriation Act), offered that, however every other legislation, the amendments would stay in place till July 1, 2022. The invoice makes the amendments everlasting.
HB 146 (Head) – Insurance; examinations; supplier complaints. Provides that any individual could submit a criticism of noncompliance by an insurer with any insurance coverage legislation, regulation, or order of the State Corporation Commission on behalf of a well being care supplier. The invoice supplies that the Commission shall examine such complaints and notify the complainants of the outcomes, however that the Commission shall not have jurisdiction to adjudicate particular person controversies or issues of a contractual dispute.
HB 267 (McNamara) & SB 12 (Suetterlein) – Local taxes; surplus revenues. Grants localities permissive authority to return surplus private property tax revenues to taxpayers. Under present legislation, localities could return solely surplus actual property tax revenues.
HB 200 (Webert) – Real property tax; exemptions. Provides that the property of a corporation that’s tax-exempt by classification shall embody the property of a single-member restricted legal responsibility firm whose sole member is such a corporation.
HB 1215 (Ransone) – Physical schooling; private security coaching. Requires any bodily schooling class provided to college students in grades seven and eight to incorporate no less than 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 schooling.
HB 1204 (Kilgore) – Renewable vitality certificates; precedence of procurement. Requires American Electric Power and Dominion Energy Virginia, for renewable vitality portfolio normal (RPS) program compliance years 2023 and 2024, to prioritize procurement of renewable vitality certificates (RECs) from renewable vitality normal 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. Additionally, 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 can be each (i) cost-competitive and (ii) eligible for the Virginia Brownfield and Coal Mine Renewable Energy Grant Fund and Program.
HB 99 (Head) – Continuing schooling; funeral service licensees, funeral administrators, and embalmers. Provides that permitted persevering with schooling programs for funeral service licensees, funeral administrators, and embalmers shall embody both one hour of compliance with legal guidelines and laws governing the career or one hour of preneed funeral preparations per yr, offered that no less than one hour of constant schooling relating to preneed funeral preparations is accomplished each three years. Current legislation requires no less than one hour of compliance with legal guidelines and laws governing the career and no less than one hour of preneed funeral preparations per yr. The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
HB 91 (Head) – Board of Health; payment for Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth. Removes the requirement that the Board of Health prescribe an inexpensive payment to cowl the executive price and preparation of a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth.
HB 93 (Head) – Department of Health; residence care organizations; license renewal. Changes the license renewal requirement for residence care organizations from an annual renewal to a triennial renewal. The invoice prohibits the Department of Health, upon renewal of a house care group license, from requiring residence 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 supply free well being care to an underserved space of the Commonwealth below the auspices of a publicly supported nonprofit group that sponsors the supply of well being care to populations of underserved individuals in the event that they achieve this for a interval not exceeding three consecutive days and if the nonprofit group verifies that the practitioner has a legitimate, unrestricted license in one other state.
HB 50 (Fariss) – Safe haven protections; hotline to supply details about toddler relinquishment legal guidelines and choices. Directs the Department of Social Services 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 assist and sources out there for mother and father out there to the general public and to make details about the hotline, together with the toll-free quantity which may be used to contact the hotline, out there on its web site. The invoice additionally directs the Department to undertake a marketing campaign to extend public consciousness of the Commonwealth’s legal guidelines offering for the relinquishment of an toddler and the hotline established pursuant to the invoice.
HB 49 (Fariss) – James State Scenic River. Designates a further 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 supplies that nothing within the Scenic Rivers Act shall preclude the development, use, or removing of any asset that traverses sure parts of the James River.
HB 44 (Ware) – Standard nonforfeiture provisions for life insurance coverage; minimal nonforfeiture quantities; rates of interest. Decreases the minimal nonforfeiture quantity rate of interest from one % to 0.15 %.
HB 1326 (Kilgore) – Electric utilities; removing of waste coal from beforehand mined websites; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; sundown. Provides that, in furtherance of the necessity to handle the environmental hazards of deserted coal mines, the removing 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 Commission on Electric Utility Regulation from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2024, and supplies that the Commission could evaluation data 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) – Local 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 had been legitimate and excellent as of July 1, 2020. The invoice additionally supplies 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; out of date provisions and discover. Removes an exception to the regulation of insurance coverage charges by the State Corporation Commission referring to sure vehicle bodily harm and property harm legal responsibility insurance coverage insurance policies. The invoice removes provisions requiring the Commission to mail a duplicate of sure orders relating to motorized vehicle insurance coverage kinds to insurers and charge service organizations and as an alternative requires the Commission to supply discover of such orders. Finally, 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) – Comprehensive plan; substantial accord; parks. Clarifies provisions associated as to if sure public amenities are considerably in accord with the adopted complete plan by including parks to the forms of public makes use of which will, with sure forms of land use purposes, 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) – Workers’ compensation; price of residing dietary supplements. Provides that cost-of-living dietary supplements shall be payable to claimants who’re receiving incapacity advantages below the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act however aren’t receiving federal incapacity advantages.
SB 34 (Marsden) – Electronic credentials; payment. Makes discretionary the quantity of the payment, as much as $10 per yr, assessed by the Department of Motor Vehicles for every particular person issued digital credentials or granted entry to an digital credential. Under present legislation, the payment is mounted at $10 per yr. The invoice authorizes the Department to problem digital registration playing cards to people who maintain a legitimate bodily registration card and clarifies when a bodily registration card is required.
HB 286 (Adams, D.M) – Nurse practitioners; declaration of dying and reason behind dying. Authorizes autonomous nurse practitioners, outlined within the invoice, to declare dying and decide the reason for dying; permits nurse practitioners who aren’t autonomous nurse practitioners to pronounce the dying of a affected person in sure circumstances; and eliminates the requirement for a legitimate Do Not Resuscitate Order for the deceased affected person for declaration of dying 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 People of Color Historic Preservation Fund established. Establishes the Virginia Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Historic Preservation Fund for the aim of awarding grants to eligible state-recognized and federally acknowledged Indian tribes, private 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 individuals of shade communities. The invoice supplies that land or pursuits acquired with grant funds shall grant the Board of Historic Resources or different holders a perpetual preservation curiosity within the property.
SB 477 (McClellan) & HB 140 (McQuinn) – Historical African American cemeteries. Changes the date of firm that qualifies historic African American cemeteries for appropriated funds to care for such cemeteries from previous to January 1, 1900, to previous to January 1, 1948, and supplies that the whole variety of graves in a qualifying cemetery shall be the variety of markers of African Americans who had been interred in such cemetery previous to January 1, 1948. Under present legislation, the whole variety of graves is the variety of markers of African Americans who lived at any time between January 1, 1800, and January 1, 1900.
SB 194 (Mason) – Insurance; public adjusters; requirements of conduct. Prohibits a public adjuster from participating in any exercise which will fairly 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. Additionally, the invoice supplies that for the needs of the prohibition on a public adjuster having a monetary curiosity in an insured’s declare, “financial interest” 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. Adds the Chief Executive Officer of the Capital Region Airport Commission as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the Central Virginia Transportation Authority.
SB 129 (Morrissey) – Study; Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers; alkaline hydrolysis workgroup; report. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to convene a workgroup to check easy methods to 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 Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare, and Institutions on or earlier than November 1, 2022.
HB 1108 (Rasoul) – Public faculties; instruction regarding playing. Requires instruction regarding playing and the addictive potential thereof to be offered by the general public faculties as prescribed by the Board of Education. The invoice requires the Board of Education to report back to the Chairmen of House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health an outline of such instruction.
HB 1112 (Cordoza) – Virginia Marine Resources Commission; saltwater fishing licenses. Requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to supply an choice to buy a multiyear leisure saltwater fishing license.
HB 1251 (Fowler) – Alcoholic beverage management; operation of presidency shops; sale of nonalcoholic spirit alternate options. Allows authorities shops of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to promote nonalcoholic spirit alternate options.
HB 239 (Adams, D.M.) & SB 263 (Hashmi) – Housing and Supportive Services Interagency Leadership Team initiative; housing and companies for adults 65 years of age or older. Directs the Department for Housing and Community Development to broaden the present Housing and Supportive Services Interagency Leadership Team (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 provision of everlasting supportive housing for adults 65 years of age or older.
HB 285 (Adams, D.M.) – Clinical nurse specialist; observe agreements. Provides {that a} nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing within the class of medical nurse specialist who doesn’t prescribe managed substances or units could observe within the observe class by which he’s licensed and licensed with no written or digital observe settlement, offered that he (i) solely observe throughout the scope of his medical and skilled coaching and limits of his information and expertise and in line with the relevant requirements of care, (ii) seek the advice of and collaborate with different well being care suppliers primarily based on the medical situation of the affected person to whom well being care is offered, and (iii) set up a plan for referral of advanced medical instances and emergencies to physicians or different acceptable well being care suppliers. The invoice additionally supplies {that a} nurse practitioner licensed by the Boards within the class of medical nurse specialist who prescribes managed substances or units 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 dying. Extends to licensed sensible nurses the authority to pronounce the dying of a affected person in hospice, offered that sure situations are met. Current legislation supplies that physicians, registered nurses, and doctor assistants could pronounce dying.
HB 52 (Morefield) & SB627 (Hackworth) – Charter; Town of Tazewell; board of zoning appeals. Increases the time period size for members of the board of zoning appeals for the Town of Tazewell from two to 5 years.
SB 325 (Reeves) – Alcoholic beverage management; transportation of alcoholic drinks. Increases from one gallon to a few gallons the quantity of alcoholic drinks that an individual could transport into the Commonwealth and consolidates present legislation relating to the transportation of alcoholic drinks into or throughout the Commonwealth. The invoice accommodates technical amendments.
HB 1083 (Leftwich) – Tax assessments; notices. Requires the Department of Taxation to establish on payments for omitted tax assessments the date the preliminary tax return or fee was obtained by the Department, 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 – Income tax; main enterprise facility job tax credit score; sundown. Extends the sundown of the main enterprise facility job tax credit score from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2025. This week, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed over 100 payments into legislation together with laws that provides mother and father extra management over what their kids are being taught, helps shore up animal cruelty guidelines, and reforms insufficient sexual assault legal guidelines.