Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1009
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, or motorized skateboards or scooters to follow the pedestrian Walk signal at an intersection when traveling in the direction of the signal, provided that they yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk traveling in the same direction. The bill provides that a person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter may not start to cross a highway in the direction of a Don't Walk signal, but such person who has partially completed his crossing on the Walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island and remain there while the Don't Walk signal is showing. Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, or motorized skateboards or scooters to follow the pedestrian Walk signal at an intersection when traveling in the direction of the signal, provided that they yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk traveling in the same direction. The bill provides that a person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter may not start to cross a highway in the direction of a Don't Walk signal, but such person who has partially completed his crossing on the Walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island and remain there while the Don't Walk signal is showing.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1010
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle and removes the accompanying the exclusionary provisions. Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle and removes the accompanying the exclusionary provisions.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1011
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Engrossed
1/19/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Health insurance; tobacco surcharge. Eliminates the authority of a health carrier to vary its premium rates based on tobacco use. Under current law, a health carrier may charge premium rates up to 1.5 times higher for a tobacco user than for a nonuser. The provisions of the bill apply to health benefit plans providing individual or small group health insurance coverage entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024. The bill directs the State Corporation Commission to submit an annual report summarizing the reductions in premiums related to the elimination of the tobacco surcharge. The provisions of the bill expire on January 1, 2026.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1012
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
State and local prohibition on single-use plastic and expanded polystyrene products. Prohibits state agencies beginning July 1, 2024, from contracting for the purchase, sale, and distribution of (i) single-use plastic bags, cutlery, straws, or water bottles and (ii) single-use plastic food service containers and expanded polystyrene food service containers, except during a declared state of emergency. The bill directs the Department of General Services to post public notice of all prohibited goods on its public procurement website. The bill also authorizes any locality to prohibit by ordinance the purchase, sale, or provision, whether free or for a cost, of (a) single-use plastic bags, cutlery, straws, or water bottles and (b) single-use plastic food service containers and expanded polystyrene food service containers, with certain exceptions enumerated in the bill.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1013
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/10/23
Waterworks; contaminants; notification to customers. Requires a waterworks owner that receives a finished water test result from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved method for drinking water for any PFAS chemical subject to a PFAS advisory and such result that exceeds the notification concentration, as defined in the bill, to (i) report such result to the Department of Health, (ii) provide public notice in the required consumer confidence report provided to the waterworks owner's customers and by posting on the waterworks owner's website, and (iii) provide such additional public notice as the Department may require on a case-by-case basis under applicable regulations. Waterworks; contaminants; notification to customers. Requires a waterworks owner that receives a finished water test result from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved method for drinking water for any PFAS chemical subject to a PFAS advisory and such result that exceeds the notification concentration, as defined in the bill, to (i) report such result to the Department of Health, (ii) provide public notice in the required consumer confidence report provided to the waterworks owner's customers and by posting on the waterworks owner's website, and (iii) provide such additional public notice as the Department may require on a case-by-case basis under applicable regulations.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1014
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property by general public. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the general public from using property voluntarily conveyed to Loudoun County by a nonprofit recreational association for recreational purposes. Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property by general public. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the general public from using property voluntarily conveyed to Loudoun County by a nonprofit recreational association for recreational purposes.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1015
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole the Board must notify the attorney for the Commonwealth in each jurisdiction in which an offense occurred for which the prisoner is incarcerated, and the attorney for the Commonwealth may submit his input to the Board regarding the impact that the release of the prisoner will have on the jurisdiction.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1016
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Bedding and upholstered furniture; exemption from regulation. Exempts from the Board of Health regulations governing bedding and upholstered furniture any items of bedding or upholstered furniture that are 75 years old or older.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1017
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Time zone of the Commonwealth. Provides that the Commonwealth shall observe Eastern Daylight Time (Eastern Standard Time, advanced one hour) year-round upon the enactment by Congress of a law allowing states to observe Eastern Daylight Time year-round.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1018
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Railroad companies; notice of certain action. Requires a railroad company operating in the Commonwealth that submits an application to the federal government for consolidation, merger, abandonment, or discontinuance to notify, in addition to the State Corporation Commission and the Governor, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the Executive Director of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority of such action. Railroad companies; notice of certain action. Requires a railroad company operating in the Commonwealth that submits an application to the federal government for consolidation, merger, abandonment, or discontinuance to notify, in addition to the State Corporation Commission and the Governor, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the Executive Director of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority of such action.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1019
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Department of Education; Virginia-based nonprofit organizations; schools for adults to earn credentials, college credit, and high school diplomas. Requires the Department of Education to authorize a Virginia-based nonprofit organization with demonstrated evidence of positive student outcomes to provide schools for adults to earn (i) (a) an industry-recognized credential awarded through a partnership with a Virginia-based community college or an approved training provider or (b) dual college credit awarded through a partnership with a Virginia-based community college and (ii) a high school diploma on one or more diploma pathways set forth in the relevant Board of Education regulation in which enrollment is open, on a space-available basis, to adults who reside throughout the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1020
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/10/23
Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. Establishes the Virginia Museum of Transportation as a public entity and educational institution under the Commonwealth governed by a 15-member board of trustees. The provisions of this bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1021
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
2/8/23
Charter; City of Roanoke; municipal elections. Makes various changes related to the City of Roanoke's shift to November municipal elections.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1022
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Mandatory reporting of all offenders released from a state correctional facility before the completion of the offender's sentence. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide the Virginia State Crime Commission with the name, last known address, criminal history information, length of sentence incarcerated, reason for early release, and remaining time on such length of sentence for each offender in the custody of the Department. The bill requires the Commission to publish the names of such offenders along with the reason for early release on its website and provide an annual report by November 15 to the General Assembly concerning the release of such offenders and any future criminal charges and convictions for such offenders.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1023
Introduced
1/7/23
Refer
1/7/23
Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program established and funded jointly by a local governing body and school division located within Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional) for the purpose of providing special education and related services when (i) the public school special education program is able to provide services comparable to those of an approved private school special education program and (ii) the student would require placement in an approved private school special education program but for the availability of the public school special education program.