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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Park authorities; authority to operate, etc., electric vehicle charging stations. [HB-443]
Park authorities; electric vehicle charging stations. Gives park authorities created by a locality the authority to locate, operate, regulate the use of, and install signage relating to electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on property under its jurisdiction. The bill adds park authorities to the list of entities for which provision of electricity for EV charging is exempt from the definition of retail sale of electricity. The bill adds park authorities to the list of entities that the State Corporation Commission cannot regulate or prescribe
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0255) on 04/08/2022
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Photo speed monitoring devices; localities, locations. [SB-334]
Photo speed monitoring devices; localities; locations. Authorizes towns that have not established their own police department to authorize the placement and operation of a photo speed monitoring device to record speed limit violations. Current law authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate such devices. The bill requires any such town to provide all data collected from the device to the chief law-enforcement office for the town or of the county in which the town is located. The bill removes the limitation that such
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Failed To Report (defeated) In Transportation (5-y 9-n 1-a) on 01/20/2022
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Local condemnation authority; locality may acquire property interests outside its boundaries, etc. [SB-218]
Local condemnation authority. Provides that any locality may acquire property interests outside its boundaries by exercise of eminent domain power in connection with a highway transportation project located partially within a neighboring locality when the governing body of the neighboring locality wherein such property interests are located approves such use of eminent domain.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 01/24/2022
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Speed limits; expands authority of any locality to reduce to less than 25 miles per hour, etc. [HB-633]
Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business district or residence district, provided that such reduced speed limit is indicated by lawfully placed signs, to include highways within the state highway system.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Transportation on 02/15/2022
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Posting of notices; electronic posting on public government website of the locality, etc. [HB-677]
Posting of notices; electronic posting. Requires any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type that is required to be posted on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulletin board at the courthouse to also be posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or on the website of the circuit court clerk. Under current law, the website posting is sufficient when such official document is required to be posted at the courthouse. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0683) on 04/11/2022
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Green banks; regional agreements. [HB-568]
Green banks; regional agreements. Provides that any two or more localities may enter into agreements with one another for joint action to establish a green bank to promote investment in clean energy technologies and provide financing for clean energy technologies. The governing bodies of participating localities must each adopt an ordinance to approve such agreement before the agreement takes effect. The existing green bank enabling statute is silent on the issue of regional agreements.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/15/2022
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Lobbying; local government actions, notice and fee to clerk of governing body. [SB-224]
Lobbying; local government actions; notice and fee to clerk of governing body. Requires any individual who is compensated to influence or attempt to influence a local government action through oral or written communication with a local government officer or employee to provide written notice of his status and a $25 fee to the clerk of the governing body of the officer's or employee's locality. The bill exempts from this requirement (i) certain executive and legislative officials and employees, (ii) local government employees or officers acting in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Continued To 2023 In General Laws And Technology (12-y 0-n) on 02/09/2022
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Early Identification System (EIS); DCJS to establish. [HB-611]
Conduct of law-enforcement officers; establishment of an Early Identification System. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) to establish a best practices model for the implementation, training, and management of an Early Identification System (EIS). The bill defines an EIS as a system through which a law-enforcement agency collects and manages data to identify and assess patterns of behavior, including misconduct and high-risk behavior, or performance of law-enforcement officers and law-enforcement agency employees.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
Tabled In Public Safety (11-y 10-n) on 02/11/2022
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Public accommodations, employment, and housing; prohibited discrimination. [HB-532]
Public accommodations, employment, and housing; prohibited discrimination on the basis of political affiliation. Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person's political affiliation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
Stricken From Docket By General Laws (22-y 0-n) on 02/08/2022
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Public employees; independent bargaining. [HB-335]
Public employees; independent bargaining. Permits independent bargaining by public employees who are employed by a county, city, or town that has adopted an ordinance or resolution providing for collective bargaining by public employees. The bill prevents agreements between employee associations and employers from applying to employees who are not members of the association and states that there shall be only one designated bargaining representative for each collective bargaining unit in a county, city, or town that has adopted an ordinance or resolution
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Stricken From Docket By Commerce And Energy (20-y 0-n) on 01/25/2022
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Sexually explicit visual material to another; unlawful dissemination, penalty. [HB-334]
Unlawful dissemination of sexually explicit visual material to another; penalty. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who knowingly transmits sexually explicit visual material by computer or other electronic means to another person 18 years of age or older when such other person has not requested or consented to the transmittal of such material or has expressly forbidden the transmittal of such material is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $250 for a first offense and not more than $500 for a second or subsequent offense.
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/15/2022
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Land bank ordinances; disposition. [HB-298]
Delinquent tax lands; disposition. Authorizes localities to petition the circuit court to appoint a special commissioner to, in lieu of a sale at public auction, convey certain real estate having delinquent taxes or liens to the locality's land bank entity or an existing nonprofit entity designated by the locality to carry out the functions of a land bank entity. Currently, such real estate may be conveyed only to the locality itself. The bill also allows real estate that contains a derelict building and has delinquent taxes and liens exceeding
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0015) on 03/08/2022
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Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. [HB-272]
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: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0178) on 04/07/2022
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Recovery residences; disclosure to potential residents that residence is certified. [HB-277]
Recovery residences. Requires that all recovery residences be certified by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) and that recovery residences, as a condition of such certification, comply with any minimum square footage requirements related to beds and sleeping rooms established by the credentialing entity, which shall be no less than the square footage requirements set forth in the Uniform Statewide Building Code. The bill requires every person who operates a recovery residence to disclose to potential
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0755) on 04/27/2022
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School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds, etc. [HB-251]
School boards and local governing bodies; unexpended local funds; school maintenance, renovation, and construction. 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jeffrey Bourne
Left In Education on 02/15/2022
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Taxes, local; surplus revenues. [HB-267]
Local taxes; surplus revenues. Grants localities permissive authority to return surplus personal property tax revenues to taxpayers. Under current law, localities may return only surplus real property tax revenues.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph McNamara
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0165) on 04/07/2022
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Speed limits; local authority. [HB-261]
Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Authorizes localities to reduce the speed limit by up to 10 miles per hour on any highway within its boundaries if indicated by lawfully placed signs and based on a traffic engineering study and analysis. Current law authorizes localities to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business district or residence district and maintained by the locality.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Left In Transportation on 02/15/2022
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Insurance; locality may provide for employees of certain public school foundations. [HB-223]
Insurance for employees of certain public school 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: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0105) on 04/06/2022
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Taxes; appeal of local assessments. [HB-226]
Appeal of local tax assessments. Clarifies Appeal of local tax assessments. Clarifies the procedure by which a taxpayer aggrieved by any local tax assessment may seek relief by providing that (i) the necessary parties in such a proceeding shall be the taxpayer and the locality; (ii) the taxpayer may show that the property was assessed at more or less than its fair market value; and (iii) the county or city attorney or, if none, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall defend the locality in any such proceeding.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0358) on 04/11/2022
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County boards of supervisors; salaries. [SB-172]
County boards of supervisors; salaries. Requires county boards of supervisors, prior to July 1 of each year, to set a maximum annual compensation, which will become effective as of January 1 of the year following the next regularly scheduled elections. County boards of supervisors; salaries. Requires county boards of supervisors, prior to July 1 of each year, to set a maximum annual compensation, which will become effective as of January 1 of the year following the next regularly scheduled elections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Peake
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0616) on 04/11/2022