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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Short-term rental properties; definition, locality requirements and restrictions. [SB-602]
Short-term rental properties; definition; locality requirements and restrictions. Prohibits, except as provided, localities from (i) requiring or allowing the approval of neighbors or the neighborhood for the operation of short-term rental properties; (ii) imposing requirements or restrictions that exceed those of regular properties, including special parking and occupancy restrictions; or (iii) restricting short-term rentals by geographic location within the locality by means other than the normal general land use and zoning authority. The bill
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 01/31/2022
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Conduct of election; election results, post-election forensic audits. [SB-605]
Elections; conduct of election; election results; post-election forensic audits. Provides for the conduct of a forensic audit of an election in a county or city upon the request of certain officials or upon the petition of a group of residents of the locality in question. The purpose of an audit is to determine the accuracy and legality of the election in question. The bill provides that an audit includes a review of all materials, equipment, and procedures used during any part of the election, including ballots, pollbooks, voting machines, and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Privileges And Elections (9-y 6-n) on 02/01/2022
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Real property taxes; rate of increase. [SB-620]
Real property taxes; rate of increase. Requires the governing body of a locality to hold a referendum before making most increases in their real property tax rate. Under current law, the governing body of a locality is required to limit their real property tax rate to a rate that would collect no more than 101 percent of the amount of real property taxes collected for the previous year. Increases above this rate may only be imposed if the locality holds a public meeting. The bill replaces the public meeting requirement with a requirement that any
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (12-y 4-n) on 02/01/2022
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Emergency custody or temporary detention order; custody and transportation of persons, etc. [SB-593]
Custody and transportation of persons subject to emergency custody or temporary detention order; alternative custody; auxiliary police officers. Allows auxiliary police officers to provide transportation for a person subject to an emergency custody or temporary detention order. The bill also directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum training standards for auxiliary police officers who are called into service solely for the purpose of providing transportation for such person subject to an emergency custody
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Newman
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0730) on 04/27/2022
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Cities and counties; distribution of recordation tax. [SB-512]
Distribution of recordation tax to cities and counties. Reestablishes the distribution of $20 million of state recordation tax revenue to counties and cities to be used for transportation or public education purposes. Legislation in 2020 dedicated the $20 million to the Hampton Roads Regional Transit Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Suetterlein
Incorporated By Finance And Appropriations on 02/01/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds use for school maintenance, etc. [SB-481]
School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds; school maintenance, renovation, and construction. Encourages each local governing body and local school board to enter into a collaborative agreement to set aside in a separate fund any sums, exclusive of the required local effort and required local match as stated in the general appropriation act, 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
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Education on 03/08/2022
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Certain crimes committed while participating in a riot; civil action for damages caused. [SB-531]
Certain crimes committed while participating in a riot; civil action for damages caused during a riot or unlawful assembly; affirmative defense; reduction in law-enforcement agency operating budget; penalty. Creates a civil action for damages caused during a riot or unlawful assembly if a person with the lawful authority to direct a law-enforcement agency uses that authority to prohibit law-enforcement officers from taking action that would prevent or materially mitigate significant bodily injury, death, or damage or destruction of property caused
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Passed By Indefinitely In Judiciary (8-y 7-n) on 02/02/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Face coverings; prohibits enforcement of policy, etc., to wear. [SB-458]
Employers; institutions of higher education; localities; public schools; face coverings. Prohibits any locality, institution of higher education, employer, school board, division superintendent, school principal, or private school from adopting, implementing, or enforcing any policy, rule, or order related to COVID-19 that requires individuals to wear a face covering.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (8-y 4-n) on 02/03/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Children's Services Act; community policy and management teams and family assessment, etc. [SB-435]
Children's Services Act; parent representatives; community policy and management teams; family assessment and planning teams. Removes provisions that prohibit a parent representative from serving as a member of a community policy and management team (CPMT) or a family assessment and planning team (FAPT) if such parent representative is employed by a public or private program that receives funds pursuant to the law or agencies represented on a FAPT or CPMT and interacts directly on a regular and daily basis with children or supervises employees who
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Sponsored by: Sen. Taylor Mason
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0419) on 04/11/2022
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Sexually explicit visual material to another; civil action for dissemination of images, penalty. [SB-493]
Civil action for the dissemination of sexually explicit visual material to another. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who knowingly transmits an intimate image, as defined in the bill, by computer or other electronic means to the computer or electronic communication device of another person 18 years of age or older when such other person has not consented to the use of his computer or electronic communication device for the receipt of such material or has expressly forbidden the receipt of such material shall be considered a trespass
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0523) on 04/11/2022
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Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund; funds to be paid to certain entities. [SB-521]
Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund. Allows funds in the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund to be paid to entities outlined in local shelter plans to install, maintain, or repair infrastructure for backup energy generation for emergency shelters, including solar energy generators, and improve the hazard-specific structural integrity of shelter facilities owned by the locality or identified in the shelter plan of the locality.
Sponsored by: Sen. Louise Lucas
Incorporated By General Laws And Technology on 02/09/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Water quality funds; localities in fiscal stress. [SB-489]
Water quality funds; localities in fiscal stress. Directs that, to the maximum extent practicable, at least 25 percent of the grant agreements entered into by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, at least 25 percent by the Department of Environmental Quality from the Water Quality Improvement Fund, and at least 25 percent of the grants from the Stormwater Local Assistance Fund be for projects in localities with high or above average fiscal stress.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Continued To 2023 In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (13-y 0-n) on 02/08/2022
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Alarm systems; regulation, battery-charged fence security systems. [SB-526]
Regulation of alarm systems; battery-charged fence security systems. Allows a locality to require those persons providing or operating a battery-charged fence security system, defined in the bill, to obtain an alarm company permit and the corresponding fee and to require certain other requirements as defined in the bill. The bill provides that the locality can also require the installer of such security system to submit an affidavit disclosing information about the installation that includes an affirmation of compliance. The bill also provides that
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Sponsored by: Sen. Louise Lucas
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0043) on 04/01/2022
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High-speed broadband service; expanding to new residential and commercial development. [SB-446]
Broadband service; new residential and commercial development; stakeholder advisory group. Provides that the Department of Housing and Community Development shall convene a stakeholder advisory group for the purpose of evaluating local and state policies, procedures, or ordinances to facilitate the expansion of high-speed broadband service and associated infrastructure in new residential and commercial development. The stakeholder advisory group shall be composed of representatives from the commercial and residential land development and construction
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0593) on 04/11/2022
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Retail Sales & Use Tax, additional local; use of revenues for construction or renovation of schools. [SB-472]
Additional local sales and use tax; use of revenues for construction or renovation of schools. Allows any county or city to levy a local general retail sales tax and a local use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent as determined by its governing body to provide revenues solely for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, the power to levy such local sales and use taxes for the construction or renovation of schools is limited to the qualifying localities of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Finance on 03/08/2022
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Insurance; locality may provide for employees of certain public school foundations. [SB-437]
Insurance for employees of certain public school foundations. Provides that any locality may provide group life, accident, and health insurance programs for employees of certain public school foundations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0106) on 04/06/2022
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Local governments; additional powers, energy efficiency of buildings. [SB-452]
Powers of local governments; additional powers; energy efficiency of buildings. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt optional building energy efficiency standards and allows localities to adopt and enforce these standards. The bill allows localities to require disclosure of energy use intensity (EUI) information to prospective buyers, lessees, and lenders at the point of sale, and to require an energy audit for the building prior to the completion of the sale if there is insufficient available data or upon request. The
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Failed To Report (defeated) In Local Government (6-y 8-n) on 02/07/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Trees; replacement and conservation during development process, powers of local government. [SB-537]
Powers of local government; trees during development process; replacement and conservation. Prevents the prohibition or the unreasonable limitation of silvicultural activities related to the replacement of trees during the development process and the conservation of trees during the land development process in certain localities. The bill specifies provisions related to the replacement of trees during the development process in localities and allows that any locality may adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0620) on 04/11/2022
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Unlawful hazing; civil and criminal liability. [SB-440]
Unlawful hazing; penalty. Provides immunity for arrest and prosecution for hazing and involuntary manslaughter if a person in good faith seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing or renders emergency care or assistance, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to a person who has received a bodily injury by hazing while another person seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for such person. The bill also clarifies that a prosecution of a hazing violation shall not preclude prosecution
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. [SB-501]
Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not be construed to extend previous extensions related to the COVID-19 housing crisis.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0179) on 04/07/2022