Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1488
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Abortion; use of public funds prohibited. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth shall enter into any contract with or make any grant of public funds, as defined in the bill, to any entity or any affiliate of any entity that provides abortion services or operates a facility at which abortion services are provided. The bill also repeals provisions authorizing the Board of Health to use state general funds appropriated to the Department of Health to pay the cost of abortions for women who otherwise meet the financial eligibility criteria for services through the state plan for medical assistance services in cases in which (i) a pregnancy occurs as a result of rape or incest that is reported to a law-enforcement or public health agency or (ii) a physician certifies in writing that he believes the fetus will be born with a gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or with a gross and totally incapacitating mental deficiency.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1489
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Practice of naturopathic medicine. Establishes licensure requirements for the practice of naturopathic medicine, including education, examinations, and scope of practice for licensure as a naturopathic doctor, defined in the bill. The bill requires the Board of Medicine to promulgate regulations governing the profession and establishes the Advisory Board on Naturopathy to make recommendations to the Board of Medicine. Practice of naturopathic medicine. Establishes licensure requirements for the practice of naturopathic medicine, including education, examinations, and scope of practice for licensure as a naturopathic doctor, defined in the bill. The bill requires the Board of Medicine to promulgate regulations governing the profession and establishes the Advisory Board on Naturopathy to make recommendations to the Board of Medicine.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1490
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Engrossed
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Virginia Public Procurement Act; certain construction contracts; performance and payment bonds. Allows localities to allow a contractor of indefinite delivery or quantity contracts, defined in the bill, who is otherwise required to furnish performance and payment bonds in the sum of the contract amount to the public body with which he contracted to furnish such bonds only the dollar amount of the individual tasks identified in the underlying contract. Such contractors shall not be required to furnish the sum of the contract amount if the governing locality has adopted such an ordinance. Virginia Public Procurement Act; certain construction contracts; performance and payment bonds. Allows localities to allow a contractor of indefinite delivery or quantity contracts, defined in the bill, who is otherwise required to furnish performance and payment bonds in the sum of the contract amount to the public body with which he contracted to furnish such bonds only the dollar amount of the individual tasks identified in the underlying contract. Such contractors shall not be required to furnish the sum of the contract amount if the governing locality has adopted such an ordinance.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1491
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small business. Redefines "small business" for the purposes of programs for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and the Virginia Public Procurement Act to mean a business that together with its affiliates has both 250 or fewer employees and average annual gross receipts, less the cost of goods sold by the business, of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years. Currently for these programs, a business qualifies as a small business if, together with its affiliates, it has either 250 or fewer employees or average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less averaged over the previous three years.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1492
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Board of Education; special education and related services; certain evaluation deadlines. Requires the Board of Education to amend certain regulations to permit local educational agencies to shorten the deadline of 65 business days from the date of receipt of referral for an initial evaluation or a reevaluation of a child to determine eligibility for special education and related services. Board of Education; special education and related services; certain evaluation deadlines. Requires the Board of Education to amend certain regulations to permit local educational agencies to shorten the deadline of 65 business days from the date of receipt of referral for an initial evaluation or a reevaluation of a child to determine eligibility for special education and related services.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1493
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shall assure a minor child of frequent and continuing contact with both parents so as to maximize the amount of time the minor child spends with each parent.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1494
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/17/23
Engrossed
1/20/23
Refer
1/24/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Special license plates; BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation bearing the legend BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1495
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Transportation network companies; uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. Requires transportation network company (TNC) insurance to maintain the same minimum uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage as is currently required by law for all motor vehicle insurance policies of $30,000 for bodily injury per person, $60,000 for bodily injury per accident, and $20,000 for property damage, whether or not there is a passenger in the vehicle. The bill also prohibits TNC insurance underinsured motorist coverage from being set off by another policy from incidents arising when there is a passenger in the vehicle. Current law requires uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for TNCs at $1 million when a passenger is in the vehicle. The bill repeals expired provisions related to TNC insurance coverage.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1496
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/14/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Allocates 3.5 percent of the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund to commuter rail systems jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission and excludes such commuter rail systems from receiving allocations pursuant to other distributions of the Fund. The bill requires such commuter rail systems to submit reports to the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The bill limits allocations by the NVTC for distribution to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to 50 percent of the total operating and capital assistance required to be provided by NVTC or other Virginia entities in the approved WMATA budget and establishes reporting requirements for WMATA. The bill codifies requirements for WMATA to adopt and submit certain planning documents first required pursuant to the eighth enactment of Chapter 854 and the eighth enactment of Chapter 856 of the Acts of Assembly of 2018 and repeals the original requirements.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1497
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Teacher compensation; at or above national average. Teacher compensation; at or above national average. Requires public school teachers to be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. The bill requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund a five percent annual increase for public school teacher salaries, effective for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1498
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; barbers and cosmetologists; exemptions; threading. Exempts persons whose activities are confined solely to removing unwanted hair by the use of string or thread from being required to obtain an occupational license from the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1499
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to the two-week period immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to an election.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1500
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Adoption Tax Credit. Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 for the amount of qualified adoption expenses, as defined by the bill, paid or incurred by an individual or married couple who finalize a legal adoption. The aggregate amount of qualified adoption expenses that may be claimed shall not exceed $10,000. In the case of an adoption of a child with special needs, as defined by the bill, the taxpayer will be treated as though he incurred $10,000 in qualified adoption expenses. Adoption Tax Credit. Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 for the amount of qualified adoption expenses, as defined by the bill, paid or incurred by an individual or married couple who finalize a legal adoption. The aggregate amount of qualified adoption expenses that may be claimed shall not exceed $10,000. In the case of an adoption of a child with special needs, as defined by the bill, the taxpayer will be treated as though he incurred $10,000 in qualified adoption expenses.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1501
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements. Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; requirements. Requires every member appointed to a locality's law-enforcement civilian oversight body to observe within 90 days of the member's appointment a law-enforcement officer employed with such locality's law-enforcement agency while such law-enforcement officer is engaged in his official duties and that such observation total no fewer than 24 hours, a portion of which includes a ride-along with a law-enforcement officer. The bill also provides that any disciplinary determination recommended by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body shall be advisory and that if any law-enforcement agency declines to implement such recommendation, such agency shall create and make available to the public within 30 days from the date such recommendation is reported to such agency a written public record of its rationale for declining to implement such recommendation. Finally, the bill requires each law-enforcement civilian oversight body to include at least one retired law-enforcement officer as a voting member; under current law, a retired law-enforcement officer may serve on such body as an advisory, nonvoting ex officio member.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1502
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Theft of or trafficking in trade secrets; penalty. Provides that any person who willfully and without authorization obtains or uses, or endeavors to obtain or use, a trade secret, as defined in the bill, with the intent to either temporarily or permanently (i) deprive or withhold from the owner thereof the control or benefit of a trade secret or (ii) appropriate a trade secret to his own use or to the use of another person not entitled to the trade secret is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that any person who willfully traffics in, or endeavors to traffic in, a trade secret that he knows or should know was obtained or used without authorization is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The punishments for such violations increase to the Class 5 felony and Class 4 felony when such offenses are committed with the intent to benefit a foreign government, a foreign agent, or a foreign instrumentality. Theft of or trafficking in trade secrets; penalty. Provides that any person who willfully and without authorization obtains or uses, or endeavors to obtain or use, a trade secret, as defined in the bill, with the intent to either temporarily or permanently (i) deprive or withhold from the owner thereof the control or benefit of a trade secret or (ii) appropriate a trade secret to his own use or to the use of another person not entitled to the trade secret is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that any person who willfully traffics in, or endeavors to traffic in, a trade secret that he knows or should know was obtained or used without authorization is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The punishments for such violations increase to the Class 5 felony and Class 4 felony when such offenses are committed with the intent to benefit a foreign government, a foreign agent, or a foreign instrumentality.