Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1336
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans. Authorizes a health insurance carrier to issue short-term limited-duration medical plans with an expiration date that is less than 12 months after the original effective date of the contract, policy, or plan and, taking into account renewals or extensions, that has a duration that is no longer than 36 months. Under current law, a carrier is prohibited from selling a short-term limited-duration medical plan that exceeds three months or that can be renewed or extended beyond six months. The bill provides that, notwithstanding any of the provisions of the bill, a carrier may issue any short-term limited-duration health plan that meets the definition of "short-term limited-duration insurance" provided in federal law. Finally, the bill sets out a disclaimer notice to be included on any short-term limited-duration medical plan sold or offered for sale in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1337
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements; advertising. Amends and adds numerous provisions regarding the Commonwealth's medical marijuana program, including provisions related to recordkeeping, product registration, allowable deviations, dispensing, packaging, labeling, and advertising. The bill requires pharmaceutical processors and cannabis dispensing facilities to collect and provide to the Board of Pharmacy by July 1, 2024, data regarding implementation of the bill. The bill also requires the Board of Pharmacy to make certain amendments to its regulations.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1338
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; employee welfare benefit plans. Provides that entities providing or administering self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans are subject to provisions related to pharmacy benefits management, including certain prohibited conduct and recordkeeping requirements.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1339
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Minimum staffing standards for certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions. Sets nursing staffing requirements for certified nursing facilities, imposes administrative sanctions on a certified nursing facility if it does not comply with the staffing requirements, provides for exemptions to the administrative sanctions under certain circumstances, and directs the promulgation of regulations consistent with the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1340
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/9/23
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; application limitations. Prohibits a landlord from performing background, credit, or other pre-occupancy checks on an applicant without first (i) establishing a written rental application policy that includes a disclosure of the amount of all nonrefundable application fees and deposits and (ii) providing the applicant either (a) a copy of the landlord's written application policy or (b) an electronic communication stating where the landlord's written application policy may be accessed and providing a hyperlink or other electronic access to such policy. The written application policy may be provided through posting on a website available to the public.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1341
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Unincorporated bodies, societies, groups, associations, or posts; appointment of trustees. Allows for the appointment of trustees for an unincorporated body, society, group, association, or post upon petition to the circuit court of the locality in which such unincorporated body, society, group, association, or post meets. The bill also contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1342
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Licensure of anesthesiologist assistants. Provides that no person shall use or assume the title "anesthesiologist assistant" or hold himself out as an anesthesiologist assistant unless such person holds a license as an anesthesiologist assistant issued by the Board of Medicine, establishes criteria for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants, and directs the Board of Medicine to adopt regulations governing the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1343
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
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
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles; online access to driving records; minors. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to create a process and guidelines by which minors may access their driving records on the Department of Motor Vehicles website, including the necessary means to verify the identity of such requester, and to implement the process and guidelines by July 1, 2024. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2024 Session of the General Assembly. Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles; online access to driving records; minors. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to create a process and guidelines by which minors may access their driving records on the Department of Motor Vehicles website, including the necessary means to verify the identity of such requester, and to implement the process and guidelines by July 1, 2024. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2024 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1344
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Operation of the City of Alexandria local health department. Allows the City of Alexandria to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services. Operation of the City of Alexandria local health department. Allows the City of Alexandria to enter into a contract with the Department of Health for the local administration of local health services.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1345
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Virginia Port Authority; tax credits and grants. Creates grant programs to replace the barge and rail usage tax credit and the Virginia port volume increase tax credit when those credits expire on January 1, 2025. The bill also creates a new Port of Virginia Economic Development Grant Program consisting of two component programs: the Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Program and the International Trade Facility Grant Program. The bill also moves the sunset date of the existing Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Fund and Program from June 30, 2025, to December 31, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1346
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Taxable income apportionment; retail companies. Provides that, beginning with taxable year 2023, affiliated corporations filing on a consolidated basis may elect to apportion the taxable income of all members of the affiliated group using sales factor alone even if one or more members of the affiliated group would be required to use different apportionment factors if filing separate returns. The election is valid only in taxable years for which 80 percent or more of the affiliated group's sales is derived from retail company activities.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1347
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/6/23
Engrossed
2/7/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Health insurance; mental health benefits; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis stabilization units. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for mobile crisis response services, defined in the bill, and support and stabilization services provided in a residential crisis stabilization unit, defined in the bill, to the extent that such services are covered in other settings or modalities, regardless of any difference in billing codes. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to convene a stakeholder work group to examine network standards for mobile crisis response services and the current availability of mobile crisis response services in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the work group to make recommendations regarding (i) the definition and standards of care for mobile crisis response services and short-term residential crisis stabilization services as they apply to the commercial insurance market, including balance billing protections; (ii) the licensure or accreditation required for such services in the Commonwealth; and (iii) how cost-sharing and deductibles will be addressed as part of accessing such services for commercially insured individuals. The bill requires the Commission to report the findings of the work group to the Health Insurance Reform Commission and the Governor no later than September 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1348
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Administrative Process Act; Department of Wildlife Resources; exemptions not to extend to agency actions regarding certain wildlife. Excludes from the exemptions from the Administrative Process Act granted to the Department of Wildlife Resources (the Department) certain regulations and case decisions of the Department. The bill provides that certain guidance documents in use by the Department as of July 1, 2023, shall expire on December 31, 2023, unless such documents are filed for publication with the Virginia Registrar of Regulations by August 1, 2023, and made available for public comment as prescribed in the Administrative Process Act by December 31, 2023. Administrative Process Act; Department of Wildlife Resources; exemptions not to extend to agency actions regarding certain wildlife. Excludes from the exemptions from the Administrative Process Act granted to the Department of Wildlife Resources (the Department) certain regulations and case decisions of the Department. The bill provides that certain guidance documents in use by the Department as of July 1, 2023, shall expire on December 31, 2023, unless such documents are filed for publication with the Virginia Registrar of Regulations by August 1, 2023, and made available for public comment as prescribed in the Administrative Process Act by December 31, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1349
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Taxation of corporations; apportionment; Internet root infrastructure providers. Provides that Internet root infrastructure providers, defined in the bill, that meet certain criteria and choose to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority may use a hybrid sales factor in their income apportionment calculations when filing Virginia corporate income tax returns. The bill is effective for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2023, provided that the provider and the Authority enter into an MOU no later than December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB135
Introduced
1/8/22
Refer
1/8/22
Virginia Parole Board; membership; records; report. Increases from five to 11 the number of members to be appointed to the Virginia Parole Board (the Board). The bill requires the Board to (i) include in its monthly report regarding actions taken by the Board on the parole of prisoners the number of votes in favor of granting or denying parole of each prisoner and (ii) ensure that any records, reports, or other documents used to determine a person's suitability for parole be made available for review by such person or his counsel pursuant to Board regulations. The bill contains technical amendments.