Commissions Boards And Institutions Generally
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board; established, report. [SB-491]
Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board. Establishes the Virginia African Diaspora Advisory Board to advise the Governor on ways to improve economic and cultural links between the Commonwealth and African nations, with a focus on the areas of commerce and trade, agriculture, art, education, and government. The Board is composed of 18 nonlegislative citizen members, of whom at least 15 must be persons who identify as part of the African diaspora, to be appointed by the Governor. The Secretaries of Agriculture and Forestry, Commerce and Trade, and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Appropriations on 03/08/2022
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Child Care Subsidy Program; permitting Armed Forces active members to apply for Program. [SB-529]
Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; Armed Forces; examination and report. Directs the Board of Education to determine the feasibility of amending its regulations to permit all active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States who serve as caregivers to dependents to apply for the Child Care Subsidy Program and submit its findings to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0024) on 03/11/2022
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Agritourism event buildings; authorizes the BHCD to promulgate regulations related to buildings. [SB-400]
Agritourism event buildings. Authorizes the Board of Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations related to agritourism event buildings, defined in the bill as a building or structure located on property where farming operations or agritourism takes place and which is primarily used for holding events and entertainment gatherings, open to the public, of 300 people or less. The bill directs the Board to appoint a nine-member Agritourism Event Structure Technical Advisory Committee to assist the Board in administering its powers and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0262) on 04/08/2022
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Charitable Gaming Board; powers and duties. [SB-402]
Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Charitable Gaming Board; powers and duties. Changes the Charitable Gaming Board (the Board) from a policy board to an advisory board in the executive branch of state government, decreases the membership from 11 members to nine members, and moves the power and duty to promulgate regulations related to charitable gaming in the Commonwealth from the Board to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department). The bill provides that (i) the current regulations enacted by the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0554) on 04/11/2022
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Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board, etc.; membership criteria. [HB-875]
Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board; Board of Directors of Virginia Cannabis Control Authority; Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council; membership criteria. Adds to the membership of the Cannabis Equity Reinvestment Board, Board of Directors of Virginia Cannabis Control Authority, and Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council one member who is an alumni of an institution of higher education at which Hispanic students comprise at least 25 percent of the institution's full-time undergraduate enrollment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Left In General Laws on 02/15/2022
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Provisional teacher licensure; teachers licensed or certified outside of the United States. [HB-979]
Board of Education; provisional teacher licensure; teachers licensed or certified outside of the United States. Permits the Board of Education to provide for the issuance of a provisional license, valid for a period not to exceed three years, to any individual who has held within the last five years a valid and officially issued and recognized license or certification to teach issued by an entity outside of the United States but does not meet the requirements for a renewable license if the individual's license or certification to teach has been
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0656) on 04/11/2022
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Child Care Subsidy Program; permitting Armed Forces active members to apply for Program. [HB-994]
Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; Armed Forces; examination and report. Directs the Board of Education to determine the feasibility of amending its regulations to permit all active duty members of the Armed Forces of the United States who serve as caregivers to dependents to apply for the Child Care Subsidy Program and submit its findings to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0023) on 03/11/2022
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Education, Board of; qualifications of members, Governor shall consider appointing two members. [HB-879]
Board of Education; membership; qualifications. Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0770) on 04/27/2022
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Education, Board of; policies for codes of student conduct, contents. [HB-1124]
Board of Education; school boards; codes of student conduct; contents. Requires the Board of Education's guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct to include a requirement that any code of student conduct is enforced and any student behavioral intervention or disciplinary method or measure is utilized in a fair, proportional, unbiased, and neutral manner, for the sole purpose of maintaining safe learning environments, and with full and sole consideration of the student's behavior and with no consideration of any individual immutable
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Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Continued To 2023 In Education By Voice Vote on 02/09/2022
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Pharmaceutical processors; amends the definition of "cannabis oil." [HB-933]
Pharmaceutical processors. Amends the definition of "cannabis oil" by removing the requirement that only oil from industrial hemp be used in the formulation of cannabis oil. The bill removes the Board of Pharmacy patient registration requirement for medical cannabis but maintains the requirement that patients obtain written certification from a health care provider for medical cannabis. The bill directs the Board to promulgate numerous regulations related to pharmaceutical processors by September 15, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0391) on 04/11/2022
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JLARC; true cost of education, report. [HJR-31]
Study; JLARC; true cost of education; at-risk add-on and composite index of local ability-to-pay; report. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to continue its study of the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and its directive to provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality and, in conjunction, to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the at-risk add-on and the composite index of local ability-to-pay funding formula as tools for funding public education at levels that meet or exceed
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Rules on 02/15/2022
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Correctional facilities, local; fees associated with inmates. [HB-1053]
Local correctional facilities; fees. Directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to convene a work group to study implementation of the reduction or elimination of certain fees associated with inmates in local correctional facilities. The bill provides that the work group shall consist of two members of the House Committee on Public Safety who are not members of the same political party and two members of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services who are not members of the same political party. Such legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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Common Interest Community Board; enforcement jurisdiction. [HB-953]
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Common Interest Community Board; enforcement jurisdiction. Makes the enforcement of regulations for common interest community managers the sole responsibility of the Common Interest Community Board. Current law delegates the enforcement of these regulations to the Real Estate Board for real estate brokers, real estate salespersons, and real estate brokerage firms who are also licensed as common interest community managers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
Stricken From Docket By General Laws (22-y 0-n) on 02/08/2022
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Education, Board of; public notice and comment regarding certain materials. [HB-946]
Board of Education; local school boards; public notice and comment regarding certain materials. Requires the Board of Education (the Board), in order to provide appropriate opportunity for input from the general public, parents, teachers, and local school boards, to solicit public comment prior to revising, adopting, or approving any Standards of Learning resource guide or curriculum framework, list of recommended textbooks in any Standards of Learning academic subject, textbook, instructional aid or material, or required or recommended reading
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Wampler
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Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; changes membership. [HB-886]
Virginia-Israel Advisory Board; membership. Changes the membership of the Virginia-Israel Advisory Board by replacing the president of the Jewish Community Federation serving the Northern Virginia Region with the president of the Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
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Maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in water supplies and waterworks; Board of Health regulations. [HB-919]
Board of Health; regulations; maximum contaminant levels in water supplies and waterworks; effective date. Provides that the Board of Health shall review the recommendations of any work group convened by the Commissioner of Health after July 1, 2022, to study the occurrence of certain contaminants in public drinking water prior to adopting regulations establishing maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in all water supplies and waterworks in the Commonwealth for (i) perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonate, and such other perfluoroalkyl and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0585) on 04/11/2022
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Sexually explicit content; DOE shall develop model policies, parental notification. [HB-1009]
Department of Education; policy on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adopt model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to (i) ensuring parental notification; (ii) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (iii) permitting the parent of any student to review
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Failed To Report (defeated) In Education And Health (7-y 8-n) on 02/24/2022
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Obesity prevention and other obesity-related services; payment of medical assistance. [HB-1098]
Joint Commission on Health Care; payment of medical assistance for obesity prevention and other obesity-related services; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care (the Commission) to convene a work group to study and provide recommendations related to the payment of medical assistance for obesity prevention and other obesity-related services, including (i) the types of obesity prevention and other obesity-related services for which federal matching funds are available, (ii) the estimated cost to the Commonwealth of providing medical assistance
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0460) on 04/11/2022
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Commonwealth Transportation Board; Board to develop statewide plan. [HB-992]
Commonwealth Transportation Board; statewide plan. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to develop a statewide plan for the allocation of certain funds from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and to identify projects that can be funded through competitive grants through the Act. The bill requires the Board to conduct a risk-based assessment of vulnerabilities of transportation assets and systems in the Commonwealth to weather events and natural disasters.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Tran
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Semiconductor industry; Jt. Commission on Technology & Science to study expansion in Commonwealth. [HJR-32]
Study; Joint Commission on Technology and Science; semiconductor industry expansion; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to study the challenges and opportunities to expand the semiconductor industry in the Commonwealth. The Commission shall submit its findings no later than the first day of the 2023 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Left In Appropriations on 02/15/2022