Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1469
Introduced
1/16/23
Refer
1/16/23
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; applicability; persons residing in hotels, motels, etc. Provides that if a person resides in a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, vacation residential facility, boardinghouse, or similar transient lodging as his permanent residence, such lodging shall not be subject to the provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Under current law, such lodging is subject to the Act if a person has resided there or is subject to a written lease for more than 90 days.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1470
Introduced
1/16/23
Refer
1/16/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement (the Department) to administer workforce development programs. The bill consolidates statewide workforce program evaluation and data sharing under the Department and provides protections against improper disclosure of data. The bill provides for the Virginia Board of Workforce Development to conduct an independent evaluation of the operations and program objectives of the Department on a biennial basis with the first report due on December 1, 2025. The bill also (i) transfers administration of apprenticeship programs from the Department of Labor and Industry to the Department, (ii) directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to collaborate with the Department to grow and expand the Innovative Internship Fund and Program, and (iii) directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to conduct a comprehensive review of the Commonwealth's workforce development programs and make recommendations to address a wide range of subjects relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of such programs. The Secretary is also required to convene a stakeholder work group to advise the Secretary during the transition period. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Small Business Commission and is identical to
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1471
Introduced
1/16/23
Refer
1/16/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's dependent care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections. Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's dependent care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1472
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Violations of child protective orders; penalty. Provides that a violation of a permanent child protective order is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1473
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Toll operators; Department of Motor Vehicles records. Authorizes toll facility operators to obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles the email address or other electronic address of the owner of a vehicle that failed to pay a toll. Existing provisions require an invoice for an unpaid toll to be sent by first-class mail. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1474
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Department of Health; mobile food units. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations and each local health department and health district to amend its regulations and guidance documents relating to mobile food units to allow up to 20 percent of the sanitation and food preparation activities of a mobile food unit to take place within a 50-foot radius of the mobile food unit.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1475
Introduced
1/17/23
Refer
1/17/23
Board of Health; food establishment regulations. Requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations that prohibit the revocation, amendment, or denial of a renewal of a permit issued to a food establishment on the basis that such food establishment does not meet the requirements for the food establishment classification for which the initial permit was issued, unless such food establishment has materially changed its operations since issuance of the initial permit.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1476
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Income tax; pass-through entities. Makes changes to the elective entity level tax on pass-through entities effective beginning with taxable year 2021. The bill would impose the tax only on the share of income, gain, loss, or deduction attributable to eligible owners as opposed to imposing the tax on the entire entity. The bill defines "eligible owner" as an owner of a pass-through entity that is a natural person, estate, or trust. The bill also removes the requirement that to qualify for the tax election a pass-through entity must be 100 percent owned by natural persons or persons eligible to be shareholders in an S corporation.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1477
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Electric utility; offshore wind affiliate. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia, in connection with certain offshore wind projects, to establish an offshore wind affiliate, defined in the bill, for the purpose of securing a noncontrolling equity financing partner for the project. Under the bill, such offshore wind affiliate is authorized to operate as a public utility in association with the utility. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission, in acting upon any request for associated cost recovery, to utilize the capital structure and cost of capital of the utility and to disregard the capital structure and cost of capital of any noncontrolling entity's interest in the offshore wind affiliate. If any ownership interest in the offshore wind affiliate is transferred to such a noncontrolling entity, the bill requires the Commission to ensure, in granting any approval for the transfer or for cost recovery, that any gain on the utility's basis is credited to the utility's customers through a rate adjustment clause credit mechanism. The bill provides that such an affiliate is considered an electric supplier for the purposes of tax provisions requiring certain electric suppliers to pay a minimum tax rather than the corporate income tax for any year their minimum tax liability is greater than their corporate income tax liability. Electric utility; offshore wind affiliate. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia, in connection with certain offshore wind projects, to establish an offshore wind affiliate, defined in the bill, for the purpose of securing a noncontrolling equity financing partner for the project. Under the bill, such offshore wind affiliate is authorized to operate as a public utility in association with the utility. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission, in acting upon any request for associated cost recovery, to utilize the capital structure and cost of capital of the utility and to disregard the capital structure and cost of capital of any noncontrolling entity's interest in the offshore wind affiliate. If any ownership interest in the offshore wind affiliate is transferred to such a noncontrolling entity, the bill requires the Commission to ensure, in granting any approval for the transfer or for cost recovery, that any gain on the utility's basis is credited to the utility's customers through a rate adjustment clause credit mechanism. The bill provides that such an affiliate is considered an electric supplier for the purposes of tax provisions requiring certain electric suppliers to pay a minimum tax rather than the corporate income tax for any year their minimum tax liability is greater than their corporate income tax liability.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1478
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Official emblems and designations; state pony. Designates the Chincoteague Pony as the official pony of the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1479
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS). The bill adds specialized student support positions to the list of employees who may return to work with a six-month break in service and specifies that the employer shall include such employees' compensation in membership payroll for purposes of the employer contributions to VRS. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028, for the reduction of the required break in service period for all classes of employees. Finally, the bill requires VRS to submit a report regarding options for employing certain enumerated positions part-time during the required six-month break in service period. Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive his pension under the Virginia Retirement System (VRS). The bill adds specialized student support positions to the list of employees who may return to work with a six-month break in service and specifies that the employer shall include such employees' compensation in membership payroll for purposes of the employer contributions to VRS. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028, for the reduction of the required break in service period for all classes of employees. Finally, the bill requires VRS to submit a report regarding options for employing certain enumerated positions part-time during the required six-month break in service period.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1480
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; deregulation of certain professions. Repeals certain provisions of the Code related to the regulation of landscape architects, interior designers, residential building energy analysts, backflow prevention device workers, auctioneers, and geologists and boxing, wrestling, and martial arts events. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1481
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Public school pupils and parents; access to certain postsecondary information. Prohibits any school board, public elementary or secondary school, including any joint or regional school, or employee or agent of such school board or school, including any division superintendent or school principal, from withholding from any pupil or the pupil's parent any information that is transmitted solely to such school board, school, employee, or agent and that (i) relates to any recognition, award, or postsecondary scholarship eligibility earned by the student, including any such recognition, award, or eligibility earned as the result of the student's achievement on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) examination, or (ii) may affect the student's admission to an institution of higher education. The bill requires all such information to be transmitted to the pupil and the pupil's parent as soon as practicable after receipt of the information.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1482
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Failed
2/25/23
State Corporation Commission; members. Increases, until the next expiration of a member's term, the number of members of the State Corporation Commission from three to four. The bill provides that the newest member will serve a term of six years that begins July, 1, 2023. The bill provides that upon the next expiration of a term of a member of the Commission or upon the expiration of the remaining term of a vacancy, whichever occurs earlier, no member shall be elected to fill the expired seat, and the Commission shall consist of three members.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1483
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/18/23
Abortion; viability; treatment of nonviable pregnancy. Provides that it is lawful for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy by performing an abortion or causing a miscarriage on any woman during the second trimester of pregnancy and prior to viability, defined in the bill as when the gestational age of the unborn child is (i) 24 weeks or more or (ii) in the estimation of the physician and two consulting physicians, at least 22 weeks, as long as the abortion is performed in a hospital. Under current law, abortion is lawful under such conditions prior to the third trimester of pregnancy. The bill abolishes lawful abortion during the third trimester of pregnancy, except to save the life of the mother. The bill also provides that regardless of the duration of the pregnancy, measures for life support shall be available and utilized when there is any evidence of viability of a child that has been completely delivered. The bill specifies that the provisions of abortion laws do not apply to the treatment of a nonviable pregnancy, as defined in the bill.