Enacted • March 15, 2021:
Act 8841: An Act extending the State of Emergency in the U.S. Virgin Islands based on the COVID-19 Pandemic for an additional 60 days from March 8, 2021, to May 7, 2021. • May 19, 2021:
Act 8444: An Act amending title 29 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 3, subchapter I, section 235 (c), relating to the time period within which the Zoning Administrator must act on a building permit application submitted to the Department of Planning and Natural Resources to set time limits; requiring the Department to implement an Electronic Permitting System; amending chapter 5 section 296 relating to fees and fines for building permits to require that 3 percent of the fees collected under that section be deposited into the Department's Reclamation Fund for maintaining the electric permitting system; and amending title 12, section 911(f)(4) relating to the Natural Resources Reclamation Fund to include 3 percent of the fees collected in 29 V.I.C. § 296 as a funding source for the Natural Resources Reclamation Fund.
Act 8845: An Act amending title 3 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 5, subchapter 1, section 65a, subsections (a), (c), (d), and (e) relating to filling vacancies on boards and commissions to authorize the Governor to nominate persons to boards and commissions sixty days before the expiration of the term of an existing board or commission member; to clarify the limitation on the number of governmental boards and commissions on which commissioners and directors of the Virgin Islands Government may serve, while serving on the board or commission of any autonomous or semi-autonomous agency, to grant the Governor greater discretion in appointing statutorily designated commissions and other agency executive to boards and commission by authoring the Governor to appoint alternative representative heads; of executive agencies; adding subsection (f) to allow off-island members to serve on boards and commissions and providing for other related purposes.
Act 8849: An Act appropriating $675,500 from the Community Facility Trust Fund to the Caribbean Drag Racing Association for restoration of facilities at the St. Croix Motor Sports Complex, making an appropriation and for other related purposes. • August 3, 2021: An Act amending the Virgin Islands Code title 3, section 273(a) relating to the Public Services Commission to establish the Commission as a semiautonomous agency; amending title 30 section 1 to eliminate certain businesses from regulation as a utility and to subject the Waste Management Authority to regulation; authorizing WAPA to hire a turnaround management company; adding chapter 9 to provide for resolution of customer complaints against wireless telecommunication providers; and for other purposes related to the Public Services Commission, and WAPA. • August 16, 2021:
Act 8458: An Act amending title 33 Virgin Islands Code, subtitle 1, part 1, chapter 5, section 91 relating to the payment of fuel taxes to change the time for remittance of the tax to the Bureau of Internal Revenue; and for other related purposes.
Act 8469: An Act amending Act 8365, the Fiscal Year 2021 Executive Budget, and Act No. 8348, the Legislature's Fiscal Year 2021 Budget, to restore the 8% reduction in salaries to the employees of the Government of the Virgin Islands and for other related purposes. • February 8, 2022: Act 8540: An Act amending title 29 Virgin Islands Code, by adding chapter 24 to authorize the sale of the Matching Fund Receipts and create a new entity named the "Matching Fund Special Purpose Securitization Corporation" to: (1) acquire during the Transfer Period all of the Virgin Islands Government's right, title, and interest in the Matching Fund Receipts to be paid to or for the account of the Government by the
United States Treasury and the Related Rights, (2) issue Matching Fund Securitization Bonds and the Residual Certificate in order to pay the purchase price therefor and as otherwise authorized under the act, and (3) direct the Secretary and the United States Department of Interior to pay the Matching Fund Receipts directly into the Deposit Account; to approve the issuance by the Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority or other entity of the GERS Funding Note to the Government for deposit as an in-kind contribution to the GERS; to ratify the amendments to the rum company agreements; repealing and replacing Act Nos 8329 and 8330; and for other related purposes. • April 11, 2022:
Act 8553: The Virgin Islands CROWN Act
Act 8546: An Act amending title 34 Virgin Islands Code by adding a chapter 4 to be known as "The Responsible Fatherhood Act of 2022"
Act 8542: An Act amending the Virgin Islands Code, title 3, chapter 29, relating to notaries, notarial officers, and notarial acts by adding subchapter III enacting the "Virgin Islands Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (2022)"; and amending and repealing conflicting laws on notaries public. • August 8, 2022:
Act 8609: An Act amending the Virgin Islands Code, title 3, chapter 18, section 302 relating the duties of the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation to include the duty to develop neighborhood parks or recreation areas primarily designed to provide facilities for team, recreational or individual sports; amending title 3, chapter 22 section 401 to direct the Department to identify, supervise, administer, manage, regulate and control all sites within the Territorial Parks System; amending title 32, chapter 2 to establish the Division of Territorial Parks and Protected Areas within the Department of Planning and Natural Resources to establish and maintain a Territorial Parks System; amending title 33, chapter 111 to establish in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands The Territorial Parks System Revolving Fund and the Recreational Parks Revolving Fund; repealing title 3, section 308, title 32, chapter 4; and for other related purposes.
Proposed (but not enacted) • Bill No. 34-0016: An Act naming the future customs and border protection building to be constructed at the Urman V. Fredericks Marine Terminal in Red Hook, St. Thomas, “The Louis W. Harrigan, Jr. Customs and Border Protection Building”. • Bill No. 34-0038: An Act appropriating $2 million to the Department of Justice for its White-Collar Crimes Unit to prosecute white-collar crimes in the Virgin Islands. • Bill No. 34-0386: An act posthumously honoring and commending the late Wayne "Facts Man" Adams for his contributions as a historian, activist, publisher, businessman, and independent media correspondent, and for his many contributions in his role in educating the people of the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean about their history. ==Vetoed==