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2022 SESSION
HB 753 Human rights; religious organizations, promotion of religious principles.
Introduced by: Les R. Adams | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Human rights; religious organizations; promotion of religious principles. Provides that nothing in the Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits a religious corporation, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, from taking any action to promote the religious principles for which it is established or maintained. The bill adds preschools to the list of educational institutions that are exempt from discriminatory hiring practices with respect to the hiring and employment of employees of a particular religion when such institutions are owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or religious corporation, association, or society. The bill clarifies that the term "religion" includes all aspects of religious observance and practice as well as belief for the purposes of the exemption from discrimination in employment of individuals employed to perform work associated with the activities of a particular religion by a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101494D pdf | impact statement
- 02/10/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106518D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101494D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/21/22 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/10/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/10/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/10/22 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/10/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106518D-H1
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106518D-H1
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB753H1
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (54-Y 45-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/23/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 7-N)