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Bill Local government; hiring people with disabilities. Local government hiring; people with disabilities. Requires any locality to take into consideration or give preferenceto an individual's status as a person with a disability in its employmenthiring policies and practices, provided that such person with a disabilitymeets all of the knowledge, skills, and eligibility requirementsfor the available position. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 HB 710 Virginia HB 710 (2022)
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Virginia HB 710 (2022) — Local government; hiring people with disabilities.

Local government hiring; people with disabilities. Requires any locality to take into consideration or give preferenceto an individual's status as a person with a disability in its employmenthiring policies and practices, provided that such person with a disabilitymeets all of the knowledge, skills, and eligibility requirementsfor the available position.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. CHAP0306 (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB710ER (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102125D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
  • Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
  • Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
  • G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
  • Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
  • Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
  • M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102125D introduction
  • 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
  • 2022-01-24 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
  • 2022-02-04 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-11 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-13 Read first time reading-1
  • 2022-02-14 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
  • 2022-02-21 Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-23 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-02-23 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-02-25 Enrolled
  • 2022-02-25 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-02-25 Signed by President
  • 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
  • 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
  • 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 306 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9be64542-1f3d-4a70-a89f-97d8e60ef812. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).