Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1544
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/23/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; review of regulations relating to licensed provider reporting requirements. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to review its regulations that require providers licensed by the Department to report allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation and incidents classified as Level II and Level III. The bill requires the Department to collaborate with stakeholders to develop solutions to reduce administrative burdens on licensed providers. The bill requires the Department to report its recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions by November 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1545
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/23/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/13/23
Civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to partial closure of the federal government; emergency. Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, and owners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in the bill, that such tenant or homeowner is (i) an employee of the United States government, (ii) an independent contractor for the United States government, or (iii) an employee of a company under contract with the United States government who was furloughed or otherwise has not received or is not currently receiving wages or payments due to a closure of the United States government. Civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to partial closure of the federal government; emergency. Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, and owners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in the bill, that such tenant or homeowner is (i) an employee of the United States government, (ii) an independent contractor for the United States government, or (iii) an employee of a company under contract with the United States government who was furloughed or otherwise has not received or is not currently receiving wages or payments due to a closure of the United States government.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1546
Introduced
1/26/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Department of Health; definition of restaurant; emergency. Adds any place or operation that prepares or stores food for distribution to child or adult day care centers or schools, regardless of whether the receiving day care center or school holds a restaurant license, to the definition of "restaurant" as it applies to Title 35.1 (Hotels, Restaurants, Summer Camps, and Campgrounds). The bill has an emergency clause. Department of Health; definition of restaurant; emergency. Adds any place or operation that prepares or stores food for distribution to child or adult day care centers or schools, regardless of whether the receiving day care center or school holds a restaurant license, to the definition of "restaurant" as it applies to Title 35.1 (Hotels, Restaurants, Summer Camps, and Campgrounds). The bill has an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1547
Introduced
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
Placement of piles; no permit required. Provides that no permit shall be required for the placement of piles for (i) an existing private pier or to establish a boat slip or mooring within the owner's riparian area or (ii) a de minimis subaqueous disturbance of 10 square feet or less for purposes of placing a pile more than 50 feet from a marked navigation channel.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB156
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/27/22
Report Pass
2/9/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/22/22
Public schools; English language learners. Requires state funding to be provided to support, in the 2022-2023 school year and thereafter, a new divisionwide ratio of English learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions of 22 full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students identified as having limited English proficiency. Public schools; English language learners. Requires state funding to be provided to support, in the 2022-2023 school year and thereafter, a new divisionwide ratio of English learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions of 22 full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students identified as having limited English proficiency.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB157
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/27/22
Competitive compensation for certain positions in public elementary and secondary schools. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers and all other individuals employed in Standards of Quality-funded positions be compensated at a rate that is competitive, defined as at or above the national average salary for the position, in order to attract and keep highly qualified individuals in such positions. The bill requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund a five percent annual pay increase for each such position, effective from the 2023%9624 school year through the 2027%9628 school year, provided that such five percent annual pay increase (i) is subject to a local matching requirement in accordance with each local school board's composite index of local ability-to-pay and (ii) shall be adjusted annually as necessary to account for rebenchmarking and to yield a rate of compensation percentage increase for all Standards of Quality-funded positions that is pegged to providing a competitive average teacher salary in the Commonwealth. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB160
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Electric utilities; energy efficiency programs; definition. Provides that energy efficiency programs may include electrification, including measures that electrify space heating, water heating, cooling, drying, cooking, industrial processes, and other building and industrial end uses that would otherwise be served by on-site combustion of fossil fuels provided that the electrification measures reduce total on-site energy consumption.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB165
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/21/22
Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration. Provides for local jails to be compensated for the actual cost of incarcerating convicted felons at the rate calculated in the Compensation Board's annual jail cost report. Current law provides for jails to be compensated for the cost of incarceration of convicted felons as provided for in the general appropriation act.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB171
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/20/22
Department of Health; harmful algal bloom mitigation. Directs the Department of Health to develop and implement a harmful algal bloom mitigation plan. Department of Health; harmful algal bloom mitigation. Directs the Department of Health to develop and implement a harmful algal bloom mitigation plan.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB217
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Property Owners' Association Act; access to records; generally accepted accounting principles. Provides that all financial books and records shall be kept in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Current law states that all financial books and records shall be kept in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB220
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
State of good repair funds. Makes bridges with a general condition rating of no greater than five eligible for state of good repair funding. Under current law, structurally deficient bridges and highways with deficient pavement conditions are eligible for state of good repair funds. The bill eliminates the minimum and maximum percentage of the state of good repair funds that each construction district can receive.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB224
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Lobbying; local government actions; notice and fee to clerk of governing body. Requires any individual who is compensated to influence or attempt to influence a local government action through oral or written communication with a local government officer or employee to provide written notice of his status and a $25 fee to the clerk of the governing body of the officer's or employee's locality. The bill exempts from this requirement (i) certain executive and legislative officials and employees, (ii) local government employees or officers acting in their official capacity, (iii) contractors or employees of a contractor performing services for the local government, and (iv) an attorney clearly identified on a land use application. Failure to provide notice is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB233
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on and after the first day of a special session of the General Assembly through adjournment sine die of that session. Currently, campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB239
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/27/22
STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list of topics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubric that shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to be defined as a STEM school and (ii) recommendations for the Board to create a measurement for quality of STEM programming in general education instruction. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to draft and report to the Department of Education proposed common language and terminology that better defines the basic literacies employed in STEM+C as methodological approaches to solving universal human challenges and, as essential, generalizable and transferable literacy toward the application of skills and content needed to solve those challenges. The bill also directs the Department of Education, based on such proposed language and terminology and no later than December 1, 2022, to recommend finalized language and terminology to the Board of Education.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB255
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Report Pass
1/24/22
Zoning; wireless communications infrastructure; application process. Provides that in its consideration of certain communications infrastructure applications, a locality shall not disapprove an application if (i) the proposed new structure provides additional wireless coverage or capacity for first responders or (ii) the proposed tower is not within a four-mile radius of an existing tower that is part of the applicant's network. Additional changes in the bill provide that a locality shall not be prohibited from disapproving certain applications for any zoning approval required for non-administrative review-eligible projects on the basis of the fact that the proposed height of any wireless support structure, wireless facility, or wireless support structure with attached wireless facilities exceeds 200 feet above ground level. Current law sets the limit at 50 feet above ground level.