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2022 VA General Assembly

Start date of Special Session has been changed to Mon, April 4.
[Originally scheduled for April 27, 2022. See GA calendar]

Status of 2022 Priority Legislation

of the Virginia Grassroots Coalition

Enrolled = Bill has passed both houses, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.
Conf. Comm. = Bill passed each house in different forms, will be resolved in Special Session.

■ = Bill is dead or 'continued.'

Cat	Number	Title	Patron	House	Senate	GA	Governor	updated
2022 Priority Bills
climate	HB 71 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates, Phase I Utility and Phase II Utility. more... Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Left				2/15/22
campaign finance	HB 86 Support	Campaign finance; disclosure reports, searchable electronic database. more... Requires the Department of Elections to provide an interface to the campaign finance database maintained by the Department that allows users to easily search for and sort information ...	Timothy Anderson (R-HD83)	Passed	Passed		Conf. Comm. 03/10/22 Senate: Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N) 03/10/22 Senate: Senate requested conference committee 03/10/22 House: House acceded to request 03/10/22 House: Conferees appointed by House 03/10/22 House: Delegates: Anderson, Ranson	1/6/23
climate	HB 471 Support	State agencies and localities; solar-ready roof requirements, etc. more... Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, to ensure that such building includes a solar-ready roof ....	Suhas Subramanyam (D-HD87)	Left				2/15/22
campaign finance	HB 492 Support	Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports. more... Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports. Requires campaign committee treasurers to retain certain records that may be used in reviews of campaign committee accounts....	David Bulova (D-HD37)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/08/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (effective 1/1/24)	4/12/22
campaign finance	HB 495 Support	Campaign finance; mandatory electronic filing for all candidates. more... Requires all independent expenditure and candidate campaign finance reports to be filed electronically with the Department of Elections...	David Bulova (D-HD37)	Left				2/15/22
campaign finance	HB 500 Support	Campaign finance and advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications. more... Broadens the scope of campaign advertisement disclosure requirements to cover electioneering communications, as defined in the bill. ...	David Bulova (D-HD37)	Failed				1/29/22
campaign finance	HB 575 Support	Elections; campaign finance; contribution limits; civil penalty. more... Establishes contribution limits from any individual to any candidate campaign committee, political action committee, and political party committee and from any political action committee or political party committee to any campaign committee. ...	S. VanValkenburg (D-HD72)	Left				2/15/22
climate	HB 588 Support	Electric utilities; adjustment of rates. more... Provides that if the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) determines that the regulation of rates of investor-owned incumbent electric utilities under certain procedures of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act results in rates that are not just and reasonable, then the Commission may, in any triennial review, adjust such rates ...	Sally Hudson (D-HD57)	Stricken				1/26/22
guns	HB 590 Support	Storage of firearms in residence where minor present; penalty. more... Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet, and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet. ...	S. VanValkenburg (D-HD72)	Left				2/15/22
justice	HB 612 Support	Possession of controlled substances; penalties. more... Reduces the penalty for possession of a Schedule I or II controlled substance from a Class 5 felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor and the penalty for possession of a Schedule IV or V controlled substance from a Class 2 misdemeanor and a Class 3 misdemeanor, respectively, to a Class 4 misdemeanor. ...	Sally Hudson (D-HD57)	Tabled				1/24/22
climate	HB 664 Support	Public utilities; delay of termination of service, serious medical condition, report. more... Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation exemptions to termination of service by a public utility that provides electric, gas, water, and wastewater services for certain customers. ...	Kaye Kory (D-HD38)	Left				2/15/22
governance	HB 687 Support	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; definitions; meeting. more... Changes the definition of "meeting" for purposes of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to mean an assemblage of at least a quorum of the members of a public body. Under current law, a meeting is defined as an assemblage of as many as three members or a quorum, if less than three members, of a public body.	Kaye Kory (D-HD38)	Stricken				1/26/22
governance	HB 688 Support	School boards; production of public records; fee schedules. more... Requires each school board to develop and post or otherwise make publicly available a fee schedule governing charges for the release of public records to be used by each school within its school division when responding to requests for public records pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.	Kaye Kory (D-HD38)	Stricken				2/1/22
education	HB 853 Support	Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program Fund; unused funds; Enslaved Ancestors College. more... Requires any moneys remaining in the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year to be distributed in equal parts to each of the five public institutions of higher education that are required to implement and execute the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program ...	David Reid(D-HD32)	Stricken				1/31/22
education	HB 860 Support	Teacher Training Corps; established, report. more... Establishes the Teacher Training Corps for the purpose of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students who obtain teaching degrees and certifications at participating institutions and requiring such students to fill teacher positions for specified periods of time at high-needs schools, as defined in the bill, and meet other requirements. ...	David Reid(D-HD32)	Left				2/15/22
justice	HB 862 Support	Supplementing compensation of public defender. more... Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or employees, above the salary of any such attorney for the Commonwealth, deputy, or employee, to proportionally ...	Lopez �(D)	Tabled				3/11/24
justice	HB 906 Support	Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility, procedures. more... Provides a petition process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility and meets certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence ...	Carrie Coyner (R-HD62)	Left				2/15/22
governance	HB 972 Support	Elections; removal of officers, recall elections, petition for recall. more... Provides for the removal of certain elected officers and officers appointed to elected offices by recall referendum. The bill requires a petition for recall be signed by 30 percent of the total number of votes cast at the last election for the office for which a recall is sought.	Marcus Simon (D-HD53)	Left				2/15/22
campaign finance	HB 973 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. ...	Marcus Simon (D-HD53)	Left				2/15/22
justice	HB 1053 Support	Local correctional facilities; fees. more... Eliminates certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, including a fee to defray the costs associated with an inmate's keep, travel and other expenses associated with an inmate's work release employment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program, and telephone systems. ...	Irene Shin (D-HD86)	Passed	Passed		Signed 08/04/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013)	1/6/23
Workers	HB 1054 Support	Disaster or emergency; weather extremes; disconnection prohibitions for certain utilities. more... Prohibits telecommunications electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities and broadband companies from disconnecting service to a residential customer for nonpayment of bills or fees during a declared state of emergency, emergency, major disaster, disaster, resource shortage, or local emergency, as those terms are defined in the Code. ...	Irene Shin (D-HD86)	Left				2/15/22
education	HB 1135 Support	Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors. more... Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5....	Jeffrey Bourne (D-HD71)	Left				2/15/22
justice	HB 1197 Support	Secretariat agency responsibilities; Department of Juvenile Justice. more... Directs the Office of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a stakeholder work group to determine the feasibility and benefits of transferring responsibility for the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources. ...	Patrick A. Hope (D-HD47)	Passed	Passed		Vetoed 04/11/22 Governor: Vetoed by Governor	4/28/22
workers	HB 1220 Support	Right to work; repeals provisions of Code that refers to denial or abridgement. more... Repeals provisions of the Code of Virginia ...	Nadarius Clark (D-HD79)	Stricken				2/8/22
climate	HB 1288 Support	Public utilities; rate review by the State Corporation Commission. more... In annual rate review of a public utility by the State Corporation Commission, the Commission may find the rates of a public utility, including an investor-owned incumbent electric utility, are not just and reasonable and may take corrective action.	Sally Hudson (D-HD57)	Continued				2/2/22
Workers	SB 1 Support	Paid family and medical leave program; Virginia Employment Commission required to establish. more... Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2025. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees for family and medical leave.	Jennifer Boysko (R-SD33)		Continued			2/7/22
climate	SB 45 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. more... Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.	Chap Petersen (D-SD34)		PBI			2/2/22
education	SB 157 Support	Competitive compensation for certain positions in public elementary and secondary schools. more... Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers and all other individuals employed in Standards of Quality-funded positions be compensated at a rate that is competitive, defined as at or above the national average salary for the position, in order to attract and keep highly qualified individuals in such positions....	Ghazala Hashmi (D-SD10)		Continued			2/9/22
workers	SB 264 Support	Collective bargaining for public employees. more... Provides for collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which will determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employees and local government employees. ...	Ghazala Hashmi (D-SD10)		Stricken			1/18/22
justice	SB 282 Support	Supplementing compensation of public defender. more... Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or his employees, above the salary of any such officer, deputy, or employee to supplement the compensation of the public defender ...	Ebbin (D)		Incorp			3/11/24
climate	SB 290 Support	State agencies and localities; solar-ready roof requirements, etc. more... Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, to ensure that such building includes a solar-ready roof ...	Barbara A. Favola (D-SD31)	Defeated	Passed			2/25/22
guns	SB 310 Support	Manufacture, import, sale, transfer, or possession of plastic firearms and unfinished frames. more... Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who manufactures, imports, sells, transfers, or possesses any firearm with a major component, as defined in the bill, that when subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices, including X-ray machines, commonly used at airports ...	Ebbin (D)	Tabled	Passed			3/11/24
justice	SB 378 Support	Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility, procedures. more... Provides a petition process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility and meets certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion...	Chap Petersen (D-SD34)	Left	Passed			3/15/22
justice	SB 411 Support	Possession of controlled substances; penalties. more... Reduces the penalty for possession of a Schedule I or II controlled substance from a Class 5 felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor and the penalty for possession of a Schedule IV or V controlled substance from a Class 2 misdemeanor and a Class 3 misdemeanor, respectively, to a Class 4 misdemeanor. ...	Joseph Morrissey (D-HD16)		Defeated			2/10/22
education	SB 454 Support	Teacher Training Corps; established, report. more... Establishes the Teacher Training Corps for the purpose of attracting and retaining public elementary and secondary school teachers in school divisions in the Commonwealth by awarding scholarships to students who obtain teaching degrees and certifications at participating institutions and requiring such students to fill teacher positions for specified periods of time at high-needs schools, as defined in the bill, and meet other requirements. ...	Jennifer Boysko(D-SD33)		Continued			2/2/22
campaign finance	SB 463 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. ...	John Bell (D-SD)	Left	Passed			3/15/22
education	SB 481 Support	School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds, etc. more... Encourages each school board to enter into a collaborative agreement with the local governing body to set aside in a separate fund any sums appropriated to the school board by the local governing body that are unexpended by the school board in any year in order to use such sums to finance school maintenance, renovation, or construction in the local school division. The bill declares any school board that fails to enter into such a collaborative agreement ineligible to participate in any state gr	Jennifer McClellan (D-SD9)	Left	Passed			3/15/22
education	SB 490 Support	Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors. more... Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5. ...	Jennifer McClellan (D-SD9)	Passed	Passed		Signed 08/04/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)	1/6/23
governance	SB 495 Support	Elections; removal of officers; recall elections; petition. more... Reforms the process for removal of certain elected officers by recall referendum. The bill requires a petition for recall be signed by 30 percent of the total number of votes cast at the last election for the office for which a recall is sought.	Jennifer McClellan (D-SD9)	Continued	Passed			3/5/22
climate	SB 568 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates; civil penalty. more... Prohibits any public utility from making any contribution to any committee or otherwise provide any money any other thing of value, given, advanced, loaned, or in any other way provided to any person or committee for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election. ...	Richard Stuart (R-SD28)		PBI			2/1/22
voting rights	SJ 1 Support	Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters and the right to vote (second reference). more... A person who has been convicted of a felony shall not be entitled to vote during any period of incarceration for such felony conviction, but upon release from incarceration for that felony conviction and without further action required of him such person shall be invested with all political rights, including the right to vote. Currently, in order to be qualified to vote a person convicted of a felony must have his civil rights restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority.	Mamie Locke (D-HD2)	Left	Passed			3/9/22
education	HB 4 Oppose	Requires school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense. more... Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	Scott Wyatt (R-HD97)	Passed	Passed		Signed 05/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)	1/6/23
climate	HB 5 Oppose	Flood Relief Fund; established. more... Establishes the Flood Relief Fund (the Fund), funded by reducing the allocation of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) funds to the Community Flood Preparedness Fund from 45 to 40 percent and allocating the five percent to the Fund. ...	James Morefield (R-HD3)	Tabled				2/12/22
education	HB 9 Oppose	Public school teachers; probationary term of service, grounds for dismissal, and dismissal hearings. more... Permits each school board to extend for up to two additional years the three-year probationary term of service that is required for each teacher in the school division before the issuance of a continuing contract and prohibits each school board from reemploying a teacher whose performance evaluation during such probationary period is not satisfactory. ...	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Passed	PBI			2/17/22
education	HB 12 Oppose	Public school buildings; limits entry points, screening individuals. more... Requires each local school board to (i) limit to the lowest feasible number the entry points in each public school building in the local school division, (ii) ensure that each individual who seeks to enter any school building in the local school division is screened with a handheld metal detector wand by a school security officer or another appropriate school board employee who is appropriately trained in such method of screening, (iii) require each such school security officer or other appropri	Timothy Anderson (R-HD83)	Left				2/15/22
guns	HB 14 Oppose	Handguns; limitation on purchases. more... Removes the prohibition on any person who is not a licensed firearms dealer from purchasing more than one handgun in a 30-day period. Current law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a violation of this provision, subject to certain exemptions.	Timothy Anderson (R-HD83)	Left				2/15/22
guns	HB 26 Oppose	Firearms; control by localities of possession or carrying. more... Removes the authority for a locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, etc.	Timothy Anderson (R-HD83)	Left				2/15/22
voting rights	HB 34 Oppose	Repeals establishment of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots. more... Absentee voting; return of absentee ballots; drop-off locations. Repeals the provisions of law providing for the establishment of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.	Ronnie Campbell (R-HD24)	Passed	PBI			2/28/22
voting rights	HB 35 Oppose	Excuse required to vote absentee in person prior to the second Saturday preceding an election. more... Requires a registered voter to provide a reason for being absent or unable to vote at his polling place on election day in order to receive an absentee ballot to vote by mail. Registered voters offering to vote absentee in person are similarly required by the bill to provide a reason until the second Saturday immediately preceding an election, at which time an excuse is not required to vote absentee in person. The bill provides that an application for an absentee ballot is required to receive an	Ronnie Campbell (R-HD24)	Left				2/15/22
voting rights	HB 36 Oppose	Repeals permanent absentee voter list. more... Repeals the provisions of law by which any registered voter may apply to receive absentee ballots for all elections in which he is eligible to vote and remains on the list until the voter requests in writing to be removed from the list, the voter's registration is canceled or placed on inactive status pursuant to law, or the voter moves to a different address not in the same county or city of his registration.	Ronnie Campbell (R-HD24)	Left				2/15/22
education	HB 59 Oppose	School principals; incident reports. more... Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	John McGuire (R-HD56)	Left				2/15/22
climate	HB 73 Oppose	Electric utilities; definitions, aggregate capacity requirements for renewable energy facilities. more... Amends certain provisions related to the Air Pollution Control Board's regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. The bill removes certain requirements for energy efficiency pilot programs to be considered in the public interest. The bill removes aggregate capacity requirements for renewable energy generating facilities, including facilities utilizing energy derived from sunlight, onshore wind, and offshore wind. ...	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Passed	PBI			2/28/22
climate	HB 74 Oppose	Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges, energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries more... Defines EITE industries as companies that are constrained in their ability to pass through carbon costs due to international competition, companies that engage in importation of products that cause emission leakage, and critical infrastructure facilities identified by certain federal agencies. ...	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Passed	PBI			2/28/22
justice	HB 79 Oppose	Marijuana and certain traffic offenses; issuing citations. more... ...The bill also repeals the provision that provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop, search, or seize any person, place, or thing solely on the basis of the odor of marijuana and that no evidence discovered or obtained as a result of such unlawful search or seizure shall be admissible ...	Ronnie Campbell (R-HD24)	Passed	PBI			2/28/22
climate	HB 118 Oppose	Electric utilities; regulation, development of renewable energy facilities. more... Repeals provisions (i) requiring the State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions... (ii) prohibiting the State Corporation Commission from approving any new utility-owned generation facilities that emit carbon dioxide... (iii) declaring that statutory allowances for energy derived from sunlight, onshore wind, offshore wind, and storage facilities are in the public interest; ...	Nicholas Freitas (R-HD30)	Passed	PBI			2/28/22
education	HB 127 Oppose	Academic year Governor's Schools; certain practices prohibited and permitted. more... Prohibits any academic year Governor's School or governing board member, director, administrator, or employee thereof from (i) discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin; (ii) engaging in proxy discrimination, as defined in the bill, in student admissions; or (iii) seeking information on students' race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin during the application process for admission to	Glenn Davis (R-HD84)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 485 (effective 7/1/22)	4/12/22
climate	HB 202 Oppose	Solar facilities; permit by rule. more... Lowers from 150 to 20 megawatts the maximum generation capacity of an electrical generation facility that generates electricity only from sunlight to qualify for issuance of a permit by rule.	Michael Webert (R-HD18)	Left				2/15/22
climate	HB 206 Oppose	Small renewable energy projects; impact on natural resources. more... Requires, as a condition for a permit by rule for a small energy project, that the applicant conduct an analysis of the beneficial and adverse impacts of the proposed project on natural resources ...	Michael Webert (R-HD18)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective - see bill)	4/12/22
climate	HB 558 Oppose	Natural gas, biogas, and other gas sources of energy; definitions, energy conservation. more... Permits natural gas utilities to include in their fuel portfolios, ... supplemental or substitute forms of gas sources, defined in the bill, that meet certain standards and that reduce emissions intensity....	Israel O'Quinn (R-HD5)	Passed	Passed	Sub Adopted 02/28/22 House: VOTE: Adoption (68-Y 30-N)	Signed 04/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)	1/6/23
climate	HB 656 Oppose	Coal refuse energy and reclamation tax credit. more... Creates a nonrefundable individual and corporate income tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 equal to $4 per ton of qualified coal refuse used to generate electricity at an eligible facility, defined in the bill, in the Commonwealth by an eligible taxpayer, defined in the bill, during the taxable year. ...	William Wampler (R-HD4)	Left				2/15/22
climate	HB 657 Oppose	Public utilities; waste coal and certain coal-fired electric generating units. more... Provides that renewable energy and renewable energy standard eligible sources include energy derived from waste coal, which the bill defines as usable material that is a byproduct of previous coal processing operations. Additionally, the bill provides an exception to the requirement that all electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to generate electricity are closed by December 31, 2045, ...	William Wampler (R-HD4)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)	1/6/23
education	HB 781 Oppose	Public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills. more... ...The bill prohibits the Board and Department of Education and each local school board from teaching, instructing, or training certain individuals and groups, including teachers and students, to support, believe, endorse, embrace, confess, act upon, or otherwise assent to a divisive concept, as defined in the bill, or penalizing or discriminating against any such individual or group for refusing to do so ...	Wren Williams(R-HD9)	Left				2/15/22
climate	HB 839 Oppose	Electric utilities; recovery of costs; rate adjustment clause proceedings; construction/facilities. more... Provides that in any proceeding regarding petitions for a rate adjustment clause, the State Corporation Commission may, as an alternative to a rate adjustment clause, authorize recovery of any proposed cost through the utility's rates for generation and distribution services ...	Tony Wilt (R-HD26)	Continued				1/26/22
climate	HB 892 Oppose	Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI); preexisting contracts. more... Establishes a reserve account for the purchase of Regional Green House Gas Initiative (RGGI) allowances by an entity that has a preexisting contractual arrangement related to a power purchase...	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	PBI			3/2/22
climate	HB 894 Oppose	Generation of electricity and energy development in the Commonwealth. more... Prohibits an electric generating unit located in the coalfield region of the Commonwealth capable of generating electricity from waste coal that began commercial operations after January 1, 2010, from being required to retire before such unit reaches the end of its useful life...	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 488 (effective 7/1/22)	4/12/22
guns	HB 1051 Oppose	Protective orders; possession of firearms. more... The bill removes the requirement that any person subject to a protective order must surrender his firearms within 24 hours of being served with a protective order.	Phillip Scott (R-HD88)	Left				2/15/22
climate	HB 1204 Oppose	Renewable energy certificates; certain requirements prohibited. more... Prohibits American Electric Power or Dominion Energy Virginia from being required (i) to procure and retire renewable energy certificates...	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/07/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 169 (effective 7/1/22) 04/07/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169)	4/12/22
climate	HB 1257 Oppose	Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice. more... ...The bill bars public entities from adopting an ordinance, resolution, or other requirement that limits or prohibits customers from acquiring natural gas service and supply from both utility and non-utility gas companies...	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	Passed		Signed 08/04/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0017)	1/6/23
climate	HB 1301 Oppose	Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; repeals Act. more...	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	PBI			2/23/22
climate	HB 1326 Oppose	Electric utilities; removal of waste coal from previously mined sites. more...	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/07/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 177 (effective 7/1/22) 04/07/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177)	4/12/22
education	SB 2 Oppose	Requires school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense... more... School principals; incident reports. Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	John A. Cosgrove (R-SD14)		Incorp			2/12/22
education	SB 20 Oppose	Treatment of transgender students; model policies. more... Eliminates the requirement that each school board adopt policies that are consistent with the model policies developed by the Department of Education concerning the treatment of transgender students in public elementary and secondary schools.	Travis Hackworth (R-SD38)		PBI			2/4/22
education	SB 36 Oppose	School principals; incident reports. more... Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense.	Thomas Norment (R-HD3)	Passed	Passed		Signed	6/17/22
climate	SB 120 Oppose	Public utilities; waste coal and certain coal-fired electric generating units. more... Provides that renewable energy and renewable energy standard eligible sources include energy derived from waste coal, which the bill defines as usable material that is a byproduct of previous coal processing operations. Additionally, the bill provides an exception to the requirement that all electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to generate electricity are closed by December 31, 2045,...	Travis Hackworth (R-SD38)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0711)	1/6/23
guns	SB 330 Oppose	Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. more... Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.	Bryce Reeves (R-SD17)		PBI			1/26/22
climate	SB 532 Oppose	Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act. more... Repeals the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act and directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to take all steps necessary to suspend the Commonwealth's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative market-based trading program.	Richard Stuart (R-SD28)		PBI			2/8/22
climate	SB 565 Oppose	Natural gas, biogas, and other gas sources of energy; definitions, energy conservation. more... Permits natural gas utilities to include in their fuel portfolios, ... supplemental or substitute forms of gas sources, defined in the bill, that meet certain standards and that reduce emissions intensity. ...	Scott Surovell (D-HD36)	Passed	Passed		Signed 04/27/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0728)	1/6/23
climate	SB 695 Oppose	Low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards; repeals certain authority. more... Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards for vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later.	Richard Stuart (R-SD28)		Stricken			2/8/22

No. of bills: 78

Glossary

Dillon Rule. Restricts local government authority to enact ordinances.

Conference Committee. A temporary committee w. members from both the House and Senate, tasked with reconciling differences in legislation that passed both chambers.

Continued/Carried over. Action taken in an even-numbered year to postpone the consideration of a measure until the next regular session of the General Assembly.

Crossover. The last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced and move forward for consideration in the opposite chamber. If a bill does not move forward, it is "Left" (dead).

Engrossed. A legislative stage when a bill passes the second reading in the House of origin. Every bill has to be "read" on the floor three times before voting on it. The action or any debate or discussion usually comes on the day of the second reading or the third reading.

Enrolled. Legislation which has passed both the House of Delegates and the Senate, signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.

Failed to report. Defeated. The rejection of a motion to 'report' a bill to the full chamber.

Incorporated. Rolled into someone another bill. Either because they're identical, or they have incorporated *some* of the language in, and the patron agreed to have her name on the other bill.

Patron. Bill sponsor. There can be many patrons.

PBI. Passed by Indefinitely. Action to allow a committee to reconsider legislation at a later meeting. If the committee takes no further action, the bill is dead. [Usually the bill is dead.]

Referred. The assignment of legislation to another standing committee with no stance on the policy of the measure (neither endorses nor rejects the legislation).

Reported. The approval of a measure by the majority of the committee. The legislation may be reported by the committee with or without amendments. A bill may also be reported and referred to another committee.

Stricken. Legislation removed from a committee's docket, frequently at the request of the patron.

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