Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1157
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Health insurance; coverage for audio-only telehealth services. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage beginning January 1, 2024, for the cost of health care services provided through audio-only telehealth services, defined in the bill as counseling interventions designed to facilitate a patient's achievement of human development goals and remediate mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders and associated distresses that interfere with mental health and development by a mental health professional delivered to a patient via audio-only means when no other means of real-time two-way audio-visual or other telecommunications or electronic communications are available and operational to the patient or the patient does not have the capability to use such real-time two-way means of communication. The bill provides that "audio-only telehealth services" does not include counseling interventions delivered by a mental health professional while such mental health professional is operating or riding in a motor vehicle unless the patient is experiencing an acute mental health crisis. The bill requires that prescribing of controlled substances via audio-only telehealth services comply with state requirements for prescribing controlled substances and all applicable federal law.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1158
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Regulation of garbage and refuse pickup and disposal services; exclusive service areas; Planning District 8. Grants localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) authority to establish exclusive service areas and award such service areas to businesses that as of July 1, 2024, are legally engaged in the pickup and disposal of garbage, trash, or refuse, wherein service will be provided to the residents of the locality. For each such business, the locality may establish a separate service area with a customer base that approximates the number of residential customers served by the business in the locality on July 1, 2023. The ordinance shall establish procedures for removing or adding businesses and adjusting the boundaries of such service areas as needed. Property owners' associations may continue to contract with properly licensed businesses of their choice notwithstanding the establishment of exclusive service areas. The bill contains a reenactment clause.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1159
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Fines, costs, etc.; time period to commence collection activity. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency for which the clerk of the circuit court or district court is required to submit monthly lists of delinquent accounts. The bill also provides that no fines, costs, forfeitures, or penalties imposed in a criminal case or a traffic infraction shall be subject to collection nor shall any collection fees be assessed for (i) any period of time defendant is incarcerated and (ii) a period of 180 days following date of release from incarcerated if the sentence includes a term of active incarceration. Fines, costs, etc.; time period to commence collection activity. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency for which the clerk of the circuit court or district court is required to submit monthly lists of delinquent accounts. The bill also provides that no fines, costs, forfeitures, or penalties imposed in a criminal case or a traffic infraction shall be subject to collection nor shall any collection fees be assessed for (i) any period of time defendant is incarcerated and (ii) a period of 180 days following date of release from incarcerated if the sentence includes a term of active incarceration.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1160
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Marine Resources Commission and local wetlands boards; permit applications; public notice. Requires notices to the public for certain permit hearings relating to fisheries and habitat of the tidal waters to be posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall website and reduces the frequency at which such hearing notices are required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation from once a week for two weeks to at least once in the seven days prior to such hearing. The bill allows the Marine Resources Commission or a local wetlands board to email notice of a certain public hearing to any applicant for such permit and any other parties interested in such application and also requires such notice to be posted on the Commission's website at least 14 days prior to such hearing. The bill also requires localities that have adopted a coastal primary sand dune or wetlands zoning ordinance to amend any such ordinance to conform with the provisions of the bill by January 1, 2024. Marine Resources Commission and local wetlands boards; permit applications; public notice. Requires notices to the public for certain permit hearings relating to fisheries and habitat of the tidal waters to be posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall website and reduces the frequency at which such hearing notices are required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation from once a week for two weeks to at least once in the seven days prior to such hearing. The bill allows the Marine Resources Commission or a local wetlands board to email notice of a certain public hearing to any applicant for such permit and any other parties interested in such application and also requires such notice to be posted on the Commission's website at least 14 days prior to such hearing. The bill also requires localities that have adopted a coastal primary sand dune or wetlands zoning ordinance to amend any such ordinance to conform with the provisions of the bill by January 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1161
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Distribution of recordation tax to counties and cities. Increases the annual distribution of recordation tax revenues to cities and counties from $20 million to $60 million.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1162
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Commissioner of Highways; roadways operating under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to operate under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Directs the Commissioner of Highways to evaluate whether it is in the public interest for any roadway operated pursuant to the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 (HCA) to operate instead under the authority and requirements provided by the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (PPTA). The bill authorizes the Commissioner, if he determines it is in the public interest for any such roadway to operate under the PPTA and if the Secretary of Transportation and the Transportation Public-Private Partnership Steering Committee concur, to negotiate and execute a new comprehensive agreement with the operator of such roadway to operate under the authority and requirements provided by the PPTA. The bill has an expiration date of January 1, 2025.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1163
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/8/23
Community revitalization fund; Accomack County. Adds Accomack County to existing provisions that allow the City of Richmond to establish a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration. The community revitalization fund shall be exclusively composed of appropriated local moneys.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1164
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Cost of competing adjustment; eligibility; certain school boards. Provides that the Accomack County School Board and the Northampton County School Board are eligible to receive the cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1165
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Commonwealth Transportation Board; regulation authority. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of systems of state highways includes the use of devices in the right-of-way of such highways for law-enforcement purposes. The bill authorizes the Department of State Police or chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install, maintain, and operate devices for law-enforcement purposes on highways maintained by VDOT. The bill requires that all data collected by such devices be purged and not retained later than 30 days after collection unless such data is being used in an active law-enforcement investigation. The bill prohibits the use of such data to enforce speed limits, traffic regulations, tolling requirements, or high-occupancy vehicle requirements. Commonwealth Transportation Board; regulation authority. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of systems of state highways includes the use of devices in the right-of-way of such highways for law-enforcement purposes. The bill authorizes the Department of State Police or chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install, maintain, and operate devices for law-enforcement purposes on highways maintained by VDOT. The bill requires that all data collected by such devices be purged and not retained later than 30 days after collection unless such data is being used in an active law-enforcement investigation. The bill prohibits the use of such data to enforce speed limits, traffic regulations, tolling requirements, or high-occupancy vehicle requirements.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1166
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Refer
2/14/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Energy planning and electric utility oversight. Increases from 10 to 14 the membership of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation (the Commission) by adding three nonlegislative citizen members with expertise in ratepayer advocacy and the Attorney General or his designee from the Division of Consumer Counsel as an ex officio member; requires the Commission to annually elect a chairman and vice-chairman, meet twice annually, and receive an annual report from the State Corporation Commission by November 1 regarding the implementation of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; requires newly appointed members of the Commission to receive an orientation on electric utility regulation from the State Corporation Commission annually; authorizes the Commission to employ an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary and to employ experts who have knowledge of the issues before it; and extends the expiration of the Commission from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2029. The bill requires the Commission to (i) monitor applications by the Commonwealth for grants and awards for energy projects from the federal government, (ii) consider legislation referred to it during any session of the General Assembly or other requests by members of the General Assembly, and (iii) conduct studies and gather information and data in order to accomplish its purposes. Energy planning and electric utility oversight. Increases from 10 to 14 the membership of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation (the Commission) by adding three nonlegislative citizen members with expertise in ratepayer advocacy and the Attorney General or his designee from the Division of Consumer Counsel as an ex officio member; requires the Commission to annually elect a chairman and vice-chairman, meet twice annually, and receive an annual report from the State Corporation Commission by November 1 regarding the implementation of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; requires newly appointed members of the Commission to receive an orientation on electric utility regulation from the State Corporation Commission annually; authorizes the Commission to employ an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary and to employ experts who have knowledge of the issues before it; and extends the expiration of the Commission from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2029. The bill requires the Commission to (i) monitor applications by the Commonwealth for grants and awards for energy projects from the federal government, (ii) consider legislation referred to it during any session of the General Assembly or other requests by members of the General Assembly, and (iii) conduct studies and gather information and data in order to accomplish its purposes. The bill requires the Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency of the Department of Energy to present the final version of the Virginia Energy Plan to the Commission at a public meeting. The bill also requires the Commission, upon request by the Chairman of the House Committee on Commerce and Energy or the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor, to prepare a ratepayer impact statement for any proposed legislation related to electric utility regulation specified by such Chairman. Each such Chairman may request up to five ratepayer impact statements in any given regular or special session of the General Assembly. Additionally, the Commission, upon the request of any member of the General Assembly and at the Commission's discretion, may prepare a ratepayer impact statement for any proposed legislation related to electric utility regulation specified by such member. The bill changes the date by which an electric utility is required to file its updated integrated resource plan from May 1 to October 15, in each year immediately preceding the year the utility is subject to a review of rates for generation and distribution services filing, and provides that after January 1, 2024, each electric utility not subject to an annual review shall file an annual update to the integrated resource plan by October 15, in each year that the utility is subject to review of rates for generation and distribution services filing. The bill requires electric utilities, as part of preparing any integrated resource plan, to conduct outreach to engage the public in a stakeholder review process and provide opportunities for the public to contribute information, input, and ideas on the utility's integrated resource plan including the plan's development methodology, modeling inputs, and assumptions, as well as the ability for the public to make relevant inquiries, to the utility when formulating its integrated resource plan and to report its public outreach efforts to the Commission.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1167
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
2/8/23
Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill requires any firearm industry member that sells, manufactures, distributes, markets, or intends to sell, manufacture, distribute, or market firearm industry products, as that term is defined in the bill, within the Commonwealth, or that sells, manufactures, distributes, markets, or intends to sell, manufacture, distribute, or market firearm industry products to be used or possessed within the Commonwealth to comply with such standards of responsible conduct. Such standards include establishing and implementing reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, distribution, importation, marketing, and wholesale or retail sale of firearm industry products and taking reasonable precautions to ensure that such firearm industry products are not sold or distributed to a distributor or retailer that fails to establish and implement such reasonable controls. The bill also creates a civil cause of action for any person who suffers harm as a result of a firearm industry member's violation of the provisions of the bill.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1168
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act; regulations; effective date. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations to implement before July 1, 2024, the requirements of amendments to the Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act enacted by the 2016 Session and amended by the 2017 Session and delays from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2024, the effective date of the amendments made by the 2016 Session and regulations required to be adopted pursuant thereto. The bill also directs such adopted regulations to include the reduction of regulations through consolidation of duplicative requirements.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1169
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Refer
2/14/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Community services boards; behavioral health authorities; performance contracts. Modifies and reorganizes provisions related to the requirements of performance contracts entered into by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services with community services boards and behavioral health authorities. As introduced this bill was a recommendation of the Behavioral Health Commission and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. Certain subsections of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1170
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Behavioral Health Commission; agency assistance; access; records. Clarifies the duty of agencies and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth to cooperate with and assist the Behavioral Health Commission in the performance of its duties and requires such agencies and political subdivisions to provide to the Commission (i) to the fullest extent possible and except as prohibited by law, any records, including data and information, requested by the Commission and (ii) upon request and availability, access to the facilities of any such agency or political subdivision. The bill also excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act records of the Commission.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1171
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Association health plans; base rates based on employer member's risk profile. Provides that for association health plans, an insurer may (i) establish base rates formed on an actuarially sound, modified community rating methodology that considers the pooling of all participant claims and (ii) utilize each employer member's specific risk profile to determine contribution rates for each individual employer member's share of the premium by actuarially adjusting above or below established base rates.