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House of Delegates Committee on Commerce and Energy
The Commerce and Energy Committee deals with policy issues affecting insurance companies, power suppliers, banks, credit unions, labor relations, and employment law.
Committee Chair: Delegate Kathy Byron
Committee Members: Byron (Chair), Kilgore, Ware, Marshall, O'Quinn, Ransone, Webert, Wilt, Head, Adams, L.R., McNamara, Batten, Ward, Keam, Kory, Bagby, Mullin, Lopez, Sullivan, Guzman, Gooditis, Scott, D.L.
The following bills have been reported out of the House Commerce and Energy Committee for 2022.
- HB 44 Life insurance; decreases the minimum nonforfeiture amount interest rate.
- HB 45 Health carriers; licensed athletic trainers.
- HB 62 Insurance; obsolete provisions and notice.
- HB 73 Electric utilities; definitions, aggregate capacity requirements for renewable energy facilities.
- HB 74 Va. Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges, energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries
- HB 78 Automatic renewal or continuous service offer to consumer; cancellation and online opt-out.
- HB 82 Insurance holding company systems; group capital calculation and liquidity stress test.
- HB 95 Adult protective services investigations; financial institutions to furnish records and information.
- HB 118 Electric utilities; regulation, development of renewable energy facilities.
- HB 146 Insurance; provider complaints, etc.
- HB 182 Investor-owned water and water and sewer utilities; ratemaking proceedings.
- HB 203 Financial institutions; qualified education loan servicers, definition.
- HB 209 Credit unions; activity authorized for a federally chartered credit union.
- HB 223 Insurance; locality may provide for employees of certain public school foundations.
- HB 225 Health insurance; definition of autism spectrum disorder.
- HB 263 Banks; virtual currency custody services.
- HB 266 Electric cooperatives; net energy metering, power purchase agreements, etc.
- HB 268 Credit unions; priority of shares.
- HB 270 Va. Employment Commission; administrative reforms, reporting requirements, electronic submissions.
- HB 281 Real property; duty to disclose ownership interest and lis pendens.
- HB 296 Minimum wage; clarifies definition of wages.
- HB 309 Limited liability companies; prepayment of annual registration fees.
- HB 312 Virginia Health Benefit Exchange; annual marketing plan.
- HB 320 Minimum wage; removes certain provisions relating to increasing state wage.
- HB 336 Public employees; bargaining representative certification.
- HB 337 Public employees; compensation for union activities.
- HB 341 Public employees; labor union dues deduction authorization.
- HB 358 Veteran-owned small businesses; waiving of fees.
- HB 396 Electric utilities; municipal net energy metering.
- HB 405 Business park electric transmission infrastructure pilot program; location of qualifying projects.
- HB 414 Electric utilities, certain; local reliability data provided to a locality upon request.
- HB 421 Insurance; discrimination based on status as living organ donor prohibited.
- HB 431 Qualified health plans; state-mandated health benefits.
- HB 443 Park authorities; authority to operate, etc., electric vehicle charging stations.
- HB 558 Natural gas, biogas, and other gas sources of energy; definitions, energy conservation.
- HB 561 Corporations and regulated business entities; not set out and obsolete sections of the Code.
- HB 576 Health care providers; stay of debt collection activities, prohibited practice.
- HB 606 Fire insurance; appraisers and umpires, citizenship requirements.
- HB 652 Unemployment compensation; notice of hearing prior to discontinuing benefits, etc.
- HB 657 Waste coal piles; Dept. of Energy to identify volume and number.
- HB 675 Health insurance; tobacco surcharge.
- HB 689 Workers’ compensation; employer duty to furnish medical attention, cost limit.
- HB 691 Business entities; conversion and domestication.
- HB 714 Consumer Data Protection Act; definitions, enforcement, abolishes Consumer Privacy Fund.
- HB 718 Apprenticeship program; Bd. of Workforce Development to prepare recommendations for primary office.
- HB 726 Health insurance; coverage for donated human breast milk.
- HB 742 Workers’ compensation; anxiety disorder or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement, etc.
- HB 768 Health insurance; association health plan for real estate salespersons.
- HB 773 Health insurance; provider credentialing, receipt of application.
- HB 774 Renewable energy facilities; SCC shall create a task force.
- HB 790 Collective bargaining; law enforcement, transparency and accountability.
- HB 842 Commonwealth Health Reinsurance Program; federal risk adjustment program.
- HB 883 Project labor agreements; prevailing wage, collective bargaining for employees of local governments.
- HB 884 Group health benefit plans; bona fide associations, benefits consortium.
- HB 889 Nonpayment of wages; defense of contractor.
- HB 892 Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI); preexisting contracts.
- HB 894 Electricity and energy development; generation in the Commonwealth.
- HB 912 Continuity of care; Bureau of Insurance to convene work group regarding care.
- HB 925 Health insurance; coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
- HB 926 Workers’ compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases.
- HB 932 Workers’ compensation; COVID-19, health care providers.
- HB 1027 Financial institutions; sales-based financing providers.
- HB 1040 Minimum wage; small employers.
- HB 1042 Workers’ compensation; limitation upon filing a claim.
- HB 1081 Health insurance; calculation of enrollee’s contribution, high deductible health plan.
- HB 1151 Virginia Motor Vehicle Warranty Enforcement Act; adds autocycles to the vehicles protected by Act.
- HB 1153 Mortgage brokers; dual compensation.
- HB 1156 Private family leave insurance; definition, establishes as a class of insurance.
- HB 1162 Health insurance; discrimination prohibited against covered entities and contract pharmacies.
- HB 1171 Commonwealth Clean Energy Financing Authority and Fund; established, report.
- HB 1173 Fair Labor Standards Act; overtime, employer liability.
- HB 1178 Seizure first aid information; Department of Labor and Industry to disseminate information.
- HB 1201 Unemployment compensation; disqualification for benefits, etc.
- HB 1204 Renewable energy certificates; priority of procurement.
- HB 1237 Financial institutions; definition of trust business.
- HB 1257 Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice.
- HB 1259 Consumer Data Protection Act; sensitive data.
- HB 1326 Electric utilities; removal of waste coal from previously mined sites.