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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.
- CHAP0306 (committee substitute) — source
- HB710ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102125D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (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).