Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1084
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Prescription of Schedule VI controlled substances; asynchronous interactions; report. Allows practitioners to establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship through asynchronous interaction for the purpose of prescribing Schedule VI controlled substances if the patient chooses not to use insurance for the encounter and if such prescribing complies with federal requirements for the practice of telemedicine. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to conduct a review of Schedule VI controlled substances and report to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions by December 31, 2023, any Schedule VI substances that the General Assembly may want to consider rescheduling due to potential risk of abuse by a patient if prescribed in accordance with the standard of care for asynchronous telemedicine interactions. Prescription of Schedule VI controlled substances; asynchronous interactions; report. Allows practitioners to establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship through asynchronous interaction for the purpose of prescribing Schedule VI controlled substances if the patient chooses not to use insurance for the encounter and if such prescribing complies with federal requirements for the practice of telemedicine. The bill directs the Board of Pharmacy to conduct a review of Schedule VI controlled substances and report to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions by December 31, 2023, any Schedule VI substances that the General Assembly may want to consider rescheduling due to potential risk of abuse by a patient if prescribed in accordance with the standard of care for asynchronous telemedicine interactions.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1085
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Vetoed
3/27/23
Study; motor vehicle noise; report. Directs the Superintendent of State Police to convene a work group to examine the issue of vehicle noise in the Commonwealth and to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Transportation by November 1, 2023. Study; motor vehicle noise; report. Directs the Superintendent of State Police to convene a work group to examine the issue of vehicle noise in the Commonwealth and to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Transportation by November 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1086
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Engrossed
1/19/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Living organ donors; unpaid leave; civil penalty. Requires that an employer that employs 50 or more employees provide eligible employees, defined in the bill, with (i) up to 60 business days of unpaid organ donation leave in any 12-month period to serve as an organ donor and (ii) up to 30 business days of unpaid organ donation leave in any 12-month period to serve as a bone marrow donor. The bill requires the employer to restore the employee's position following the leave, to continue to provide coverage for the employee under any health benefit plan during the leave, and to pay the employee any commission earned prior to the leave. The bill prohibits the employer from taking retaliatory action against the employee for taking organ donation leave. The bill requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to enforce its provisions and provides for civil penalties for violations of its requirements.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1087
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Genetic data privacy; civil penalty. Establishes requirements for direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, defined in the bill, including requirements related to information to be provided to consumers, express consent requirements, requirements related to security of and consumer access to genetic data, requirements for contracts between direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies and service providers, and prohibitions on disclosure of genetic data by direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies. The bill also prohibits discrimination against a consumer based on exercise of rights related to genetic data privacy and imposes civil penalties for violations of the provisions of the bill.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1088
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/8/23
Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by dispatchers. Allows dispatchers, as defined in the bill, to claim workers' compensation benefits relating to post-traumatic stress disorder under the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act. Currently, only law-enforcement officers and firefighters may claim such benefits.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1089
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Writs of eviction; returns to issuing clerk; report. Requires the sheriff executing a writ of eviction to return such executed writ to the clerk of court who issued such writ. The bill further directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to report annually to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology, the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the House Committee on General Laws, and the Virginia Housing Commission on the number of executed writs returned during the preceding fiscal year and directs the Virginia Housing Commission to direct an existing stakeholder work group to study for a period of one year a more comprehensive data collection process to track the resolution of writs of unlawful detainers filed in the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1090
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
Refer
2/10/23
Board of Pharmacy; permit to operate pharmaceutical processor or cannabis dispensing facility. Increases the limit on the number of permits that the Board of Pharmacy (the Board) may issue or renew in any year from one to two pharmaceutical processors for each health service area established by the Board of Health. The bill also allows the Board to issue or renew permits in any year for up to five cannabis dispensing facilities per pharmaceutical processor for each health service area. Under current law, the Board may issue up to five cannabis dispensing facilities for each health service area. With the exception of pharmaceutical processors permitted prior to July 1, 2023, the bill prohibits a pharmaceutical processor from receiving more than one permit from the Board.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1091
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Local Stormwater Management Fund; condominiums. Expands the allowable uses of grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund, established under current law to grant funds to private property owners and common interest communities for certain stormwater management and erosion control projects, to include joint flooding mitigation projects of condominium owners.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1092
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Elections; protection of election officials; penalty. Adds to the list of protected voters any election official or employee of an election official. Protected voters are permitted by law to provide on the application for voter registration, in addition to the voter's residence street address, a post office box address located within the Commonwealth, which would be the address included on (i) lists of registered voters and persons who voted, (ii) voter registration records made available for public inspection, and (iii) lists of absentee voter applicants. The bill also makes it a Class 5 felony to hinder or prevent an election official or employee of an election official from administering elections. Under current law it is only a Class 5 felony to hinder or prevent an officer of election at a location being used for voting from holding an election.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1093
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Notaries; course and examination; journal and electronic record of notarial acts. Requires every applicant for a notary or electronic notary commission to take, within 90 days preceding the application, a course of instruction and to complete a written examination of such course. The bill specifies that the content of the course and the basis for the written examination shall include notarial laws, procedures, and ethics. The bill also requires any notary to keep a journal of notarial acts and any electronic notary to keep an electronic record of notarial acts and for such notary or electronic notary to keep, maintain, protect, and provide for lawful inspection of such journal or electronic record.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1094
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Treasury Board; powers and duties. Provides that the Treasury Board shall have the power and duty to make recommendations to the Governor on bonds, public-private partnerships, or other financing arrangements executed by private foundations for housing or other capital projects with respect to which an educational institution that is not a covered institution is obligated to provide financial or other types of support.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1095
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
2/8/23
Conformity with the Internal Revenue Code; cannabis licensees. Deconforms from federal law, as it applies to Virginia medical cannabis licensees, the prohibition on a deduction for any amount paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business if such trade or business consists of trafficking in a controlled substance prohibited by federal law. Conformity with the Internal Revenue Code; cannabis licensees. Deconforms from federal law, as it applies to Virginia medical cannabis licensees, the prohibition on a deduction for any amount paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business if such trade or business consists of trafficking in a controlled substance prohibited by federal law.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1096
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Failed
2/25/23
Marriage lawful regardless of sex of parties. Clarifies that a marriage between two parties is lawful regardless of the sex of such parties, provided that such marriage is not otherwise prohibited by the laws of the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that religious organizations or members of the clergy acting in their religious capacity shall have the right to refuse to perform any marriage. Marriage lawful regardless of sex of parties. Clarifies that a marriage between two parties is lawful regardless of the sex of such parties, provided that such marriage is not otherwise prohibited by the laws of the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that religious organizations or members of the clergy acting in their religious capacity shall have the right to refuse to perform any marriage.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1097
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Early childhood care and education; licensure requirements; certain accredited private school exempt. Provides that child day programs that are affiliated with an accredited private school located west of Sandy Ridge and on the watersheds of Big Sandy River and to which no contributions are made by the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain licensure to operate in the Commonwealth. Current law exempts only those programs that are offered to children who reside at such private school.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1098
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Public institutions of higher education; new programs of instruction; approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and certain legislative committees required. Prohibits any public institution of higher education from implementing a new program of instruction or implementing a new curriculum for an existing program of instruction without first obtaining the approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health.