Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB819
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Public schools; Standards of Quality; early intervention services for reading and mathematics; use of certain alternative assessments permitted. Provides that each local school division is permitted to use any nationally recognized, research-based assessment or screener in identifying and assessing the progress of any student in need of reading or algebra readiness intervention services as an alternative to a diagnostic test that must be approved by the Department of Education.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB820
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Report Pass
1/13/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Virginia Opioid Use Reduction and Jail-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Transition Fund; established. Establishes the Virginia Opioid Use Reduction and Jail-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Transition Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of funding and supporting the planning and implementation of locally administered jail-based addiction recovery and substance use disorder treatment and transition programs in local and regional jails. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB821
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety official whose duty is to receive all reports required to be made pursuant to relevant law from (i) every state official or agency and every sheriff, police officer, or other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of the peace having the power to arrest for a felony upon arresting a person who is known or discovered by the arresting official to be a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary teacher or any other employee in such local school division for a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor or an equivalent offense in another state and (ii) the clerk of any circuit court or any district court in the Commonwealth upon the felony conviction of any person known by such clerk to be employed by such local school division. Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety official whose duty is to receive all reports required to be made pursuant to relevant law from (i) every state official or agency and every sheriff, police officer, or other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of the peace having the power to arrest for a felony upon arresting a person who is known or discovered by the arresting official to be a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary teacher or any other employee in such local school division for a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor or an equivalent offense in another state and (ii) the clerk of any circuit court or any district court in the Commonwealth upon the felony conviction of any person known by such clerk to be employed by such local school division. The bill requires each division superintendent to include such division safety official designation in the collated packet of school safety audits submitted to the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety pursuant to relevant law and requires the Center to designate an employee of the Center as the school personnel safety official for the Commonwealth whose duty is to compile, maintain, and make publicly available a list of each such division safety official. The bill requires such designation to include updated contact information for the division safety official and requires such safety official to at least annually confirm with each division superintendent that such contact information is up to date and accurate. The bill also provides that a probation and parole officer who is supervising a person employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth shall, upon discovering that such supervised person has been arrested or convicted of a felony offense or an equivalent offense in another state, report such arrest or conviction to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the designated division safety official in the local school division where such supervised person is employed as soon as practicable. The bill requires any such report to be transmitted via certified mail to the mailing address identified by the division superintendent or via fax and email to the fax number and email address identified by the division superintendent, pursuant to the applicable provisions of the bill. Finally, the bill requires, until July 1, 2027, that all such arresting officials or agencies request in writing that the Virginia Employment Commission provide the name of the current employer of each arrested person for purposes of determining whether such notice is required.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB822
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Charter; City of Newport News; certain advertising requirements. Alters certain advertising requirements related to the disposal of real property of the city's waterworks system by reducing the requirement from four to two weeks, thereby conforming to other city advertising requirements.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB823
Introduced
12/21/22
Refer
12/21/22
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts. Permits the parent of a public preschool, elementary, or secondary school student who meets certain criteria to apply to the school division in which the student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the resident school division in which the student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per pupil share of special education funding to which the student is eligible. The bill permits the parent to use the moneys in such account for certain education-related expenses of the student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private, sectarian or nonsectarian elementary or secondary school or preschool that is located in the Commonwealth and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. The bill also contains provisions relating to auditing, rescinding, and reviewing expenses made from such accounts.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB824
Introduced
12/21/22
Refer
12/21/22
Report Pass
1/11/23
Engrossed
1/16/23
Refer
2/10/23
Refer
2/14/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Substance Abuse Services Council; name change; membership. Renames the Substance Abuse Services Council as the Virginia Addiction Recovery Council and increases from 29 to 32 the membership of the Council by adding two members representing the problem gambling recovery community and one member representing the board of directors of the Opiod Abatement Authority. Substance Abuse Services Council; name change; membership. Renames the Substance Abuse Services Council as the Virginia Addiction Recovery Council and increases from 29 to 32 the membership of the Council by adding two members representing the problem gambling recovery community and one member representing the board of directors of the Opiod Abatement Authority.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB825
Introduced
12/21/22
Refer
12/21/22
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Public schools; background checks; Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind. Provides that the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind is deemed a governmental entity for the purpose of receiving from the Central Criminal Records Exchange criminal history record information pertaining to an application for employment. The bill also provides that the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind is subject to the same requirement of each local school board that all applicants for employment as instructional personnel at such school, or for employment as a contractor who shall have direct contact with students on school property during regular school hours or during school-sponsored activities, be required to provide data on prior convictions for certain crimes and submit to fingerprinting for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information on such applicants. Public schools; background checks; Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind. Provides that the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind is deemed a governmental entity for the purpose of receiving from the Central Criminal Records Exchange criminal history record information pertaining to an application for employment. The bill also provides that the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind is subject to the same requirement of each local school board that all applicants for employment as instructional personnel at such school, or for employment as a contractor who shall have direct contact with students on school property during regular school hours or during school-sponsored activities, be required to provide data on prior convictions for certain crimes and submit to fingerprinting for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information on such applicants.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB826
Introduced
12/21/22
Refer
12/21/22
Report Pass
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus security department. Authorizes the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish and maintain a campus security department and to employ campus security personnel therein. Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind; authority to establish campus security department. Authorizes the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to establish and maintain a campus security department and to employ campus security personnel therein.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB827
Introduced
12/21/22
Refer
12/21/22
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Hospital emergency departments; required security plan; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require every hospital with an emergency department to establish a security plan. The bill requires that such security plan be developed using standards established by the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety or other industry standard and be based on the results of a security risk assessment of each emergency department location of the hospital. The bill requires that the security plan include the presence of at least one off-duty law-enforcement officer or trained security personnel who is present in the emergency department at all times as indicated to be necessary and appropriate by the security risk assessment. The bill provides for a waiver from the requirement that at least one off-duty law-enforcement officer or trained security personnel be present at all times in the emergency department if the hospital demonstrates that a different level of security is necessary and appropriate for any of its emergency departments based upon findings in the security risk assessment. Hospital emergency departments; required security plan; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to amend its regulations to require every hospital with an emergency department to establish a security plan. The bill requires that such security plan be developed using standards established by the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety or other industry standard and be based on the results of a security risk assessment of each emergency department location of the hospital. The bill requires that the security plan include the presence of at least one off-duty law-enforcement officer or trained security personnel who is present in the emergency department at all times as indicated to be necessary and appropriate by the security risk assessment. The bill provides for a waiver from the requirement that at least one off-duty law-enforcement officer or trained security personnel be present at all times in the emergency department if the hospital demonstrates that a different level of security is necessary and appropriate for any of its emergency departments based upon findings in the security risk assessment.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB828
Introduced
12/21/22
Refer
12/21/22
Long-term care insurance; premium rate increases. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission from approving any long-term care insurance annual premium rate increase or premium rate schedule increase that exceeds six percent of the current rate or current rate schedule.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB829
Introduced
12/22/22
Refer
12/22/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Charter; City of Newport News; real estate assessment. Requires persons who are aggrieved by any assessment made by the City of Newport News real estate assessor to apply for relief with the board of review as a prerequisite to filing for relief in circuit court. The bill also updates references to the Code of Virginia.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB830
Introduced
12/22/22
Refer
12/22/22
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of Education; best practice standards related to the transition of records and transfer of services for students with disabilities. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, in coordination with the Department of Education and relevant stakeholders, to develop and disseminate best practice standards for the transition of services and transfer of records for students with disabilities who reach the age of majority.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB831
Introduced
12/22/22
Refer
12/22/22
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Department of Medical Assistance Services; certain waivers for individuals with developmental disabilities; medically needy spend down provision. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to take steps to amend the Family and Individual Supports, Community Living, and Building Independence waivers to implement a medically needy spend down provision that allows otherwise eligible individuals to spend income in excess of the income limit for waiver services on medical expenses in order to meet the waiver income limit. The bill requires the Department to report on its activities and progress to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2023. Department of Medical Assistance Services; certain waivers for individuals with developmental disabilities; medically needy spend down provision. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to take steps to amend the Family and Individual Supports, Community Living, and Building Independence waivers to implement a medically needy spend down provision that allows otherwise eligible individuals to spend income in excess of the income limit for waiver services on medical expenses in order to meet the waiver income limit. The bill requires the Department to report on its activities and progress to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB832
Introduced
12/23/22
Refer
12/23/22
Public schools; parental rights to educational Public schools; parental rights to educational transparency. Declares that the parent of any student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth has the right to (i) access a list of any printed or audiovisual instructional material; (ii) participate in the textbook review and approval process; (iii) receive notice of and give informed consent to any counseling or guidance program offered to his child by the school; (iv) access his child's education records; (v) receive advance, written notice of any school-sponsored field trip, activity, assembly, presentation, or other event at which his child's attendance is invited, including a clear opt-out provision; (vi) receive advance notice of any questionnaire or survey to be administered to his child; (vii) receive notice of and attend any public meeting of the school board in the local school division in which his child is enrolled; (viii) review the annual school division budget and expenditures; and (ix) petition the circuit court with jurisdiction over such child's local school division to review an action of the school board if the parent is aggrieved by such action. The bill requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the parental right to review and exempt his child from any printed or audiovisual instructional materials used as a part of the curriculum in any class or course in which such parent's child is enrolled. The bill also revises existing policies and duties of each local school board in accordance with the parental rights to transparency in education.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB833
Introduced
12/23/22
Refer
12/23/22
COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professions and any regulatory board therein, and the Department of Social Services from requiring any person, including any child, to undergo vaccination for COVID-19 and prohibits discrimination based on a person's COVID-19 vaccination status (i) with regard to education, employment, or issuance of a driver's license or other state identification or (ii) in numerous other contexts. The bill establishes a civil penalty for violation of this prohibition by an employer.