Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB849
Introduced
12/29/22
Refer
12/29/22
Public utilities; customer consent to install smart meter. Prohibits a public utility from installing a smart meter, defined in the bill, on the premises of a customer without first obtaining such customer's consent to such installation. The bill requires a public utility, for any smart meter installed by a public utility prior to July 1, 2023, to provide the customer an opportunity to consent to the previous installation. The bill requires a public utility to offer to remove a smart meter without cost to the customer that was installed without obtaining the customer's consent. The bill prohibits a public utility from (i) discontinuing service to a customer who does not consent to the installation of a smart meter; (ii) charging a fee, assessment, or higher rate to a customer who does not consent to the installation of a smart meter; or (iii) providing or offering to provide discounted rates to a customer in exchange for obtaining the customer's consent to install a smart meter. Public utilities; customer consent to install smart meter. Prohibits a public utility from installing a smart meter, defined in the bill, on the premises of a customer without first obtaining such customer's consent to such installation. The bill requires a public utility, for any smart meter installed by a public utility prior to July 1, 2023, to provide the customer an opportunity to consent to the previous installation. The bill requires a public utility to offer to remove a smart meter without cost to the customer that was installed without obtaining the customer's consent. The bill prohibits a public utility from (i) discontinuing service to a customer who does not consent to the installation of a smart meter; (ii) charging a fee, assessment, or higher rate to a customer who does not consent to the installation of a smart meter; or (iii) providing or offering to provide discounted rates to a customer in exchange for obtaining the customer's consent to install a smart meter.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB850
Introduced
12/29/22
Refer
12/29/22
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2023, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill also provides an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill. Under current law, such products are exempt from state sales and use tax but are subject to the standard local rate of one percent.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB851
Introduced
12/29/22
Refer
12/29/22
Income tax; standard deduction. Increases the standard deduction, starting with taxable year 2023, from $8,000 to $12,500 for single filers and from $16,000 to $25,000 for married filers (one-half of such amount in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). The increase would remain in effect until taxable year 2026, when the standard deduction is scheduled to be reduced to $3,000 for single filers and to $6,000 for married filers.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB852
Introduced
12/29/22
Refer
12/29/22
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited; definition. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information. Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited; definition. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB853
Introduced
12/29/22
Refer
12/29/22
Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children program; additional funding. Provides that in each fiscal year, at least $2.5 million shall be appropriated to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children program for investigating and prosecuting Internet crimes against children. The bill provides that moneys that are disbursed from the Internet Crimes Against Children Fund to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children program shall count toward this appropriation and if the moneys disbursed from the Internet Crimes Against Children Fund to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children program total less than $2.5 million, the general fund shall disburse any additional moneys as necessary.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB854
Introduced
12/29/22
Refer
12/29/22
Report Pass
1/17/23
Engrossed
1/20/23
Refer
2/8/23
Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum. The bill also requires an advertisement that is an independent expenditure or that expressly advocates for the passage or defeat of a referendum to contain a disclaimer providing the names of the advertisement sponsor's three largest contributors.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB855
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Headlights; aftermarket modifications; blue lights. Prohibits the use of headlights on motor vehicles, motorcycles, autocycles, bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, personal delivery devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, and motorized skateboards or scooters with aftermarket modifications that make such headlights appear as a blue light. Headlights; aftermarket modifications; blue lights. Prohibits the use of headlights on motor vehicles, motorcycles, autocycles, bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, personal delivery devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, and motorized skateboards or scooters with aftermarket modifications that make such headlights appear as a blue light.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB856
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Public elementary and secondary schools; comprehensive school counseling program; development and implementation. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a written plan for a comprehensive school counseling program for the purpose of providing support that meets the mental and emotional health needs of all students and guiding students in academic progress, postsecondary planning, and social-emotional learning. The bill requires each local school board to develop and implement such written plan by the beginning of the 2024–2025 school year. Public elementary and secondary schools; comprehensive school counseling program; development and implementation. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a written plan for a comprehensive school counseling program for the purpose of providing support that meets the mental and emotional health needs of all students and guiding students in academic progress, postsecondary planning, and social-emotional learning. The bill requires each local school board to develop and implement such written plan by the beginning of the 2024–2025 school year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB857
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Theft of or trafficking in trade secrets; penalty. Provides that any person who willfully and without authorization obtains or uses, or endeavors to obtain or use, a trade secret, as defined in the bill, with the intent to either temporarily or permanently (i) deprive or withhold from the owner thereof the control or benefit of a trade secret or (ii) appropriate a trade secret to his own use or to the use of another person not entitled to the trade secret is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that any person who willfully traffics in, or endeavors to traffic in, a trade secret that he knows or should know was obtained or used without authorization is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The punishments for such violations increase to the Class 5 felony and Class 4 felony when such offenses are committed with the intent to benefit a foreign government, a foreign agent, or a foreign instrumentality. Theft of or trafficking in trade secrets; penalty. Provides that any person who willfully and without authorization obtains or uses, or endeavors to obtain or use, a trade secret, as defined in the bill, with the intent to either temporarily or permanently (i) deprive or withhold from the owner thereof the control or benefit of a trade secret or (ii) appropriate a trade secret to his own use or to the use of another person not entitled to the trade secret is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that any person who willfully traffics in, or endeavors to traffic in, a trade secret that he knows or should know was obtained or used without authorization is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The punishments for such violations increase to the Class 5 felony and Class 4 felony when such offenses are committed with the intent to benefit a foreign government, a foreign agent, or a foreign instrumentality.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB858
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Evidence of defendant's mental condition admissible; mental illness. Eliminates "mental illness" from the list of mental conditions for which a defendant may offer evidence to show his mental condition at the time of an alleged offense.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB859
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; allows localities to post public notice on appropriate websites. Removes the requirement that if a local public body elects not to publish notice of a Request for Proposal in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the contract is to be performed, then such local public body shall post such notice on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website. The bill allows local public bodies to post such notice on any appropriate website without requiring local public bodies to post such notice in a newspaper.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB860
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Report Pass
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Engrossed
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Fort Monroe Authority; fees; security. Grants the Fort Monroe Authority the ability to (i) charge certain fees for services within Fort Monroe and (ii) utilize security enhancement devices to enhance the safety of persons or property within Fort Monroe.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB861
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes localities in Planning District 23, after completing an engineering safety analysis that addresses congestion, accident rates, and driver disregard for traffic control devices, to establish traffic control device violation monitoring systems, defined in the bill, imposing monetary liability on the operator of a motor vehicle for failure to comply with traffic control devices at any intersection deemed by the local governing body to be negatively impacted by traffic due to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Express Lanes Hampton Segment (4C) Project. The bill prohibits the use of such devices for enforcing traffic signal or speed limit violations and provides that a driver's first offense is punishable by a written warning, not a monetary penalty. The bill expires on July 1, 2027, or upon certification by the Secretary of Transportation that the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Express Lanes Hampton Segment (4C) Project is complete, whichever occurs earlier. The bill contains technical amendments. Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes localities in Planning District 23, after completing an engineering safety analysis that addresses congestion, accident rates, and driver disregard for traffic control devices, to establish traffic control device violation monitoring systems, defined in the bill, imposing monetary liability on the operator of a motor vehicle for failure to comply with traffic control devices at any intersection deemed by the local governing body to be negatively impacted by traffic due to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Express Lanes Hampton Segment (4C) Project. The bill prohibits the use of such devices for enforcing traffic signal or speed limit violations and provides that a driver's first offense is punishable by a written warning, not a monetary penalty. The bill expires on July 1, 2027, or upon certification by the Secretary of Transportation that the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Express Lanes Hampton Segment (4C) Project is complete, whichever occurs earlier. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB862
Introduced
12/30/22
Refer
12/30/22
Highway use fee and mileage-based user fee program; repeal. Eliminates the highway use fee and mileage-based user fee program. The bill directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to continue to reimburse the cost of the highway use fee to any applicant that paid a highway use fee and is eligible for reimbursement of the original vehicle registration fee pursuant to relevant law. The bill directs the Commissioner to refund the cost of the highway use fee to any owner of a vehicle who prepaid the fee before the effective date of the bill, prorated for the period after which the highway use fee is no longer in effect.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB863
Introduced
12/31/22
Refer
12/31/22
Virginia Prisoner Litigation Reform Act. Expands the Virginia Prisoner Litigation Reform Act to apply to civil actions brought by prisoners who are represented by counsel. Under current law, the provisions of the Act apply only to pro se prisoners. The bill clarifies that the Act shall apply to all civil actions for money damages brought under the laws of the Commonwealth and civil actions for injunctive, declaratory, or mandamus relief brought under the laws of the Commonwealth or federal law. The bill also provides that the Act shall apply to civil actions brought by prisoners who are currently or were formerly incarcerated in any state or local correctional facility or a facility operated under the Corrections Private Management Act and that all such civil actions shall be brought in the circuit court of the city or county in which the prison is located where the prisoner was housed when his cause of action arose. The bill also clarifies when a genuine issue of material fact exists for the purposes of a summary judgment.