Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB654
Introduced
1/18/22
Refer
1/18/22
Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. Allows a permit applicant to purchase wetland and stream mitigation credits from the locality in which the site is located if no credits are available to purchase in the primary service area or no credits are available at a price below 200 percent of the current price of credits.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB66
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Elections; filling vacancies in the General Assembly; certain vacancies to be filled within 30 days. Requires the writ of election to fill a vacancy in the membership of the General Assembly that occurs between December 10 and March 1 to order that the special election take place no more than 30 days from the date of such vacancy.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB662
Introduced
1/19/22
Refer
1/19/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Engrossed
2/7/22
Refer
2/22/22
Department of Education; School Quality Profiles; teacher data. Requires the Department of Education to include on each School Quality Profile data on teachers' race and proficiency in any language other than English.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB67
Introduced
1/3/22
Refer
1/3/22
Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures. Requires in-state political action committees to file a report for any single expenditure of $1,000 or more made between October 1 and the date of the November election. Such reports are to be made electronically and must be received by the State Board by 11:59 p.m. on the following day or, for an expenditure made on a Saturday, by 11:59 p.m. on the following Monday. However, the bill requires that any such expenditure made within the 24 hours prior to the election day be reported and a report thereof received on the day prior to the election.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB676
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/20/22
Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who is 18 years of age or older, is of good moral character, has graduated from an accredited medical school, has successfully completed Step 1 and Step 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, and has not completed a medical internship or residency program. The bill requires all associate physicians to practice in accordance with a practice agreement entered into between the associate physician and a physician licensed by the Board and provides for prescriptive authority of associate physicians in accordance with regulations of the Board.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB7
Introduced
12/6/21
Refer
12/6/21
Income tax; standard deduction. Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2022, Virginia's standard deduction shall be in an amount equivalent to the federal standard deduction.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB702
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Marijuana criminal history information; disclosure to state and local governments by job applicants. Allows the Commonwealth or a locality to require a job applicant or other applicant who is seeking a license, permit, registration, or other government service to disclose his prior criminal history for marijuana offenses. Under current law, the Commonwealth and its localities are prohibited from requiring the disclosure of such information for such purposes.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB704
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/11/22
Engrossed
2/15/22
Refer
2/23/22
Superintendent of Public Instruction; school health services information; survey. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, at least annually, survey all local school divisions and use such data to strengthen the comprehensive availability of school health services information. The bill provides that information to be collected in the survey shall include: (i) staffing levels of school health personnel, (ii) the prevalence of students with chronic health conditions, (iii) the percentage of students with health services written in their records, (iv) the number of visits to the school health office and dispositions, (v) health services provided by each school, and (vi) any other information deemed appropriate. The bill requires each local school division to complete each survey.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB712
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Department of Regulatory Innovation; Virginia Regulatory Sandbox Program; created. Creates the Department of Regulatory Innovation to oversee the Virginia Regulatory Sandbox Program, also created by the bill, which allows an individual or business to demonstrate a product, production method, or service under a waiver or suspension of one or more state laws or regulations. The bill sets out the process by which an individual or business may apply for participation in the Program, the role of the Department in reviewing such applications for approval or denial, and the requirements for participation in the Program, including provisions related to consumer protection.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB713
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Emergency custody order; duration. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may transfer custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order to a facility or location that has been authorized by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to accept custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order upon a finding by the Department that the facility or location is capable of providing the level of security necessary to protect such person and others from harm and that in cases in which custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order has been transferred to a facility licensed to provide up to 23 hours of crisis stabilization services, the emergency custody order shall be valid for a period not to exceed 23 hours from the time of execution. Currently, all emergency custody orders are valid for a period of up to 8 hours. Emergency custody order; duration. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may transfer custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order to a facility or location that has been authorized by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to accept custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order upon a finding by the Department that the facility or location is capable of providing the level of security necessary to protect such person and others from harm and that in cases in which custody of a person who is the subject of an emergency custody order has been transferred to a facility licensed to provide up to 23 hours of crisis stabilization services, the emergency custody order shall be valid for a period not to exceed 23 hours from the time of execution. Currently, all emergency custody orders are valid for a period of up to 8 hours.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB72
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Report Pass
1/27/22
Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. Establishes the Virginia Museum of Transportation as a public entity and educational institution of the Commonwealth. Under the bill, the Museum is governed by a 15-member board of trustees.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB736
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Sales tax; data center exemption. Reduces the new job creation requirement from 50 to 25 for the sales tax exemption for data center operators.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB750
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Behavioral Health Hospital Authority; established. Creates the Behavioral Health Hospital Authority (the Authority) as an independent political subdivision of the Commonwealth, to control the delivery, financing, utilization, and health outcomes of public acute inpatient psychiatric services in the Commonwealth, and transfers responsibility for the Commonwealth's state hospitals for individuals with mental illness from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to the Authority.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB751
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Standardized Health Care Academy Program; established. Establishes the Standardized Health Care Academy Program for the purpose of providing training and opportunities to high school students in health care professional programs that are offered by associate-degree-granting public institutions of higher education. The bill directs the State Board for Community Colleges to establish the Program and work with the Department of Education in setting out parameters for the Program.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB752
Introduced
1/21/22
Refer
1/21/22
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; eligibility. Adds sworn members of the enforcement division of the Department of Motor Vehicles and conservation officers of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the membership of the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System.