Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1563
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/14/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Sales and use tax; agricultural exemptions. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for property used to produce agricultural products for market in an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility. The property exempted includes (i) internal structural components required to create the necessary growing environment for plants, including watering systems, towers for growing plants, and lighting and air systems, and (ii) transparent elements of external structural components of such facilities, including windows, walls, and roofs, that allow sunlight in for the commercial production of agricultural products. The exemption shall not apply to property used in producing cannabis. The bill allows contractors working on behalf of owners of facilities exempt under these new provisions to use the exemption when purchasing materials that would otherwise qualify for the exemption.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1564
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Nursing home standards of care; administrative sanctions; Long-Term Care Services Fund established. Requires regulations establishing the staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum number of hours of direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period, which minimum increases in specified phases from 3.5 hours to 4.1 hours. The bill gives the Commissioner of Health the power to impose administrative sanctions on nursing homes and directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations related to the criteria and procedures for the imposition of administrative sanctions or initiation of court proceedings for violations of the bill. The bill establishes the Long-Term Care Services Fund for the purpose of making grants to assist in the provision of activities that protect or improve the quality of care or quality of life for residents, patients, and consumers of long-term care services.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1565
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Burial fees for military spouses. Provides that, from such funds as may be appropriated, the Commonwealth shall pay the burial fees charged for the burial at a veterans cemetery operated by the Department of Veterans Services for (i) a member of the National Guard and Reserve, (ii) a spouse of an active duty member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces or a spouse of a member of the National Guard and Reserve, or (iii) a surviving spouse of such member or veteran.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1566
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Refer
1/30/23
Compensation of public school teachers and other Standards Compensation of public school teachers and other Standards of Quality-funded positions; competitive rate. Requires the Commonwealth to compensate its public school teachers at a rate that is competitive, defined in current law as at or above the national average teacher salary, in order to attract and keep highly qualified teachers. Current law declares it the policy of the Commonwealth to compensate public school teachers at such competitive rate but does not require it. The bill requires the Department of Education to conduct an annual calculation to determine the estimated national average teacher salary for each year of the current budget biennium that relies on the most up-to-date data from the source of the 50-state average salary of K-12 teachers in public school set forth in the annual Virginia Compared with the Other States report published by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. The bill permits the Department, in making such calculation, to use the trends of the percent change for the national average teacher salaries in the two to four years prior to project averages in each year of the current and upcoming biennia. The bill requires the results of such calculation to be reported to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Board of Education by June 1 of each year. The bill also requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund a certain flat percent annual pay increase for each individual employed in a Standards of Quality-funded position. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1567
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Refer
1/24/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Department of Health; perinatal health hub work group; report. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative, the Virginia Maternal Quality Care Alliance, and Urban Baby Beginnings, to convene a work group of stakeholders to evaluate strategies to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates and make recommendations to enhance maternal health and public health support systems through expansion of the perinatal health hub model. The bill directs the Department of Health to report on the results and recommendations of the work group to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by December 1, 2023. Department of Health; perinatal health hub work group; report. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative, the Virginia Maternal Quality Care Alliance, and Urban Baby Beginnings, to convene a work group of stakeholders to evaluate strategies to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates and make recommendations to enhance maternal health and public health support systems through expansion of the perinatal health hub model. The bill directs the Department of Health to report on the results and recommendations of the work group to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1568
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Portability of service credit between Virginia Retirement System and certain political subdivisions of the Commonwealth; remove vesting requirement for transfers. Removes the requirement that any transferring member be vested with benefits in his current retirement system in order to purchase service credit in the retirement system applicable to such member's new covered position, where the transfer of such assets is (i) from the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to a political subdivision of the Commonwealth that has a defined benefit plan that is not supplemental to VRS, (ii) from any such political subdivision's plan to VRS, or (iii) from one such political subdivision's plan to any other such political subdivision's plan.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1569
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; disclosure of personnel records. Clarifies that personnel records excluded from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act include those of persons employed by (i) a public body engaged in emergency medical services or fire protection services, (ii) a law-enforcement agency, or (iii) an emergency 911 system or any other equivalent reporting system. The bill also contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1570
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exception for highway rest areas. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth shall not apply to any highway rest area.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1571
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service under the Virginia Retirement System.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1572
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly report, or cause another to report in reliance on intentionally false information provided by such person, a false emergency communication to any emergency personnel that results in an emergency response. False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly report, or cause another to report in reliance on intentionally false information provided by such person, a false emergency communication to any emergency personnel that results in an emergency response. The bill also provides that it is a Class 6 felony if such false emergency communication results in an emergency response and any person suffers a serious bodily injury as a direct and proximate result of the false emergency communication and a Class 5 felony if any person is killed as a direct and proximate result of the false emergency communication. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of such false emergency communication shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such false emergency communication.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1573
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Department of Health Professions; applications for licensure, certification, and registration; mental health conditions and impairment; emergency. Directs each health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions to amend its licensure, certification, and registration applications to remove any existing questions pertaining to mental health conditions and impairment and to include the following questions: (i) Do you have any reason to believe that you would pose a risk to the safety or well-being of your patients or clients? and (ii) Are you able to perform the essential functions of a practitioner in your area of practice with or without reasonable accommodation? The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1574
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
School board selection; referendum on direct election of school board members by voters; authorization by local governing body. Allows the governing body of a county, city, or town to file a petition with the circuit court of the county or city or of the county within which the town or the greater part thereof is located asking that a referendum be held on the question of whether the members of the school board of the county, city, or town shall be elected directly by the voters.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1575
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Internet Safety Advisory Council; collaboration, model instructional content, and resources. Permits the Internet Safety Advisory Council (the Council) established by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to collaborate with certain agencies and organizations with expertise in child online safety issues and human trafficking prevention and requires the Council to establish model instructional content on certain student internet safety topics and post on the Department of Education website resources and assistance programs available for any child or parent who may have encountered online solicitation by sexual predators or other illegal online communications or activities, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipline. Internet Safety Advisory Council; collaboration, model instructional content, and resources. Permits the Internet Safety Advisory Council (the Council) established by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to collaborate with certain agencies and organizations with expertise in child online safety issues and human trafficking prevention and requires the Council to establish model instructional content on certain student internet safety topics and post on the Department of Education website resources and assistance programs available for any child or parent who may have encountered online solicitation by sexual predators or other illegal online communications or activities, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipline.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1576
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
School board for the City of Lynchburg; staggered terms in the event of election. Requires, in the event that the school board for the City of Lynchburg is required to be elected by popular vote in accordance with relevant law that permits a voter referendum on the question of changing the method of school board member selection from appointment to election, such school board to be elected for four-year terms and the school board elections to alternate biennially between the election of one member from each of the four ward districts and the election of one member from each of the three at-large districts to ensure staggered terms. The bill also establishes the timeline and process for the expiration of the terms of the nine then-currently appointed members and the election of the first seven elected members of such school board in the event of such a change in the school board member selection method in the City of Lynchburg.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1577
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Rabid animals; quarantine; access by the local health director or designee. Requires any person who confines a dog or cat for active signs of rabies or suspected rabies, and any person who confines any other suspected rabid animal that may have exposed a person, to allow the local health director or his designee access to the animal during its confinement. Rabid animals; quarantine; access by the local health director or designee. Requires any person who confines a dog or cat for active signs of rabies or suspected rabies, and any person who confines any other suspected rabid animal that may have exposed a person, to allow the local health director or his designee access to the animal during its confinement.