Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB864
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Motor vehicle dealers; businesses without a physical presence in the Commonwealth selling vehicles in the Commonwealth; vehicle title. Creates a presumption that any business entity that does not maintain a physical presence in the Commonwealth and offers to sell or sells five or more motor vehicles within any 12 consecutive months, for which the delivery of such sold motor vehicle or place of such sale is in the Commonwealth, is a motor vehicle dealer and provides that such presumption may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence. The bill adds to the grounds for denying, suspending, or revoking licenses or certificates of dealer registration or qualification the failure to transfer the valid vehicle title of the sold motor vehicle to the buyer at the time of such sale.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB865
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Highway use fee; exemptions; low-speed vehicles. Exempts registered low-speed vehicles from the existing highway use fee calculated on the basis of average fuel economy and miles traveled per year and replaces such fee with an annual flat fee of $25. Highway use fee; exemptions; low-speed vehicles. Exempts registered low-speed vehicles from the existing highway use fee calculated on the basis of average fuel economy and miles traveled per year and replaces such fee with an annual flat fee of $25.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB866
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; qualifications of technical assistants; emergency. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to suspend, until no later than July 1, 2024, the Uniform Statewide Building Code qualification requirement that technical assistants who issue permits have at least three years of experience. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB867
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Report Pass
1/17/23
Engrossed
1/20/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Wetlands zoning permit; notarization requirement. Eliminates the notarization requirement for a permit issued by a local wetlands board for the use or development of any wetland.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB868
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Passing stopped school buses; rebuttable presumption. Extends from 10 days to 30 business days the deadline for issuing a summons for an alleged violation of passing a stopped school bus in order for proof that the motor vehicle passed a stopped school bus and that the defendant was the registered owner of the vehicle to give rise to a rebuttable presumption that the owner of the vehicle was the operator during the violation.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB869
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Provides that if a retired law-enforcement officer was employed by a local school division as a school security officer on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2023, and had a bona fide break in service of at least one month between retirement and employment as a school security officer, such person is not required to establish the 12-month break in service that would otherwise be required by law.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB870
Introduced
1/2/23
Refer
1/2/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Small Estate Act; payment or delivery of small asset; disposition and funeral expenses. Requires any person having possession of a small asset belonging to a decedent, upon presentation of an affidavit by the funeral service establishment handling the disposition of the decedent and any related funeral service, to pay or deliver to such funeral service establishment so much of the small asset as does not exceed the amount given priority and has not already been paid. Under current law, such payment is discretionary and made to the undertaker or mortuary. The bill also provides for the discharge and release of a person paying or delivering a small asset in accordance with the provisions of the bill to the same extent as if such person dealt with the personal representative of the decedent. The bill provides that if any person to whom an affidavit is presented refuses to pay or deliver any small asset, such small asset may be recovered, payment or delivery compelled, and damages recovered, on proof of rightful claim, unless such refusal was made in good faith.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB871
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Motor vehicle dealers; franchise agreements; sale or lease of new motor vehicles. Provides that the threat to withhold incentive payments or the right to participate in incentive programs is included in the existing prohibition on any vehicle manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch coercing or attempting to coerce a dealer into entering into an agreement. The bill prohibits vehicle manufacturers, factory branches, distributors, or distributor branches from taking certain listed actions related to direct contact with buyers or lessees or coercing or requiring a dealer to allow such actions in the franchise agreement. The bill prohibits and makes void any provisions of a franchise agreement or similar agreement authorizing a manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch to unilaterally amend the franchise agreement or similar agreement. The bill provides that the existing prohibition on a manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch owning, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle dealership includes any dealership of a new line-make established by a manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, distributor branch, or subsidiary thereof or a company affiliated through ownership of the manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch of at least 25 percent of the equity of the company. The bill provides that the existing requirement that manufacturers, factory branches, distributors, or distributor branches provide the cost of initiation, update, change, or maintenance of each accessory or function of the vehicle that may be initiated, updated, changed, or maintained by the manufacturer or distributor through over-the-air or remote means shall be the cost at the time of the new motor vehicle sale.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB872
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Emergency custody; temporary detention; alternative transportation; use of restraint. Requires magistrates to authorize alternative transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order if appropriate alternative transportation is available. The bill allows an employee or contractor of an entity providing alternative transportation services pursuant to a contract with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services who has completed training approved by the Department in the proper and safe use of restraint to use restraint (i) if restraint is necessary to ensure the safety of the person or others or prevent escape and (ii) if less restrictive techniques have been determined to be ineffective to protect the person or others from harm or to prevent escape. Emergency custody; temporary detention; alternative transportation; use of restraint. Requires magistrates to authorize alternative transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order if appropriate alternative transportation is available. The bill allows an employee or contractor of an entity providing alternative transportation services pursuant to a contract with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services who has completed training approved by the Department in the proper and safe use of restraint to use restraint (i) if restraint is necessary to ensure the safety of the person or others or prevent escape and (ii) if less restrictive techniques have been determined to be ineffective to protect the person or others from harm or to prevent escape.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB873
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Engrossed
1/18/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Family abuse protective orders filed on behalf of minors. Provides that for purposes of filing a petition for preliminary protective order in a family abuse situation, the attorney for the Commonwealth or a law-enforcement officer may file a petition on behalf of a minor as his next friend if an emergency protective order was previously issued for the protection of such minor and the respondent is a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis, and such petition is filed before the emergency protective order expires or within 24 hours of the expiration of such emergency protective order. Family abuse protective orders filed on behalf of minors. Provides that for purposes of filing a petition for preliminary protective order in a family abuse situation, the attorney for the Commonwealth or a law-enforcement officer may file a petition on behalf of a minor as his next friend if an emergency protective order was previously issued for the protection of such minor and the respondent is a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis, and such petition is filed before the emergency protective order expires or within 24 hours of the expiration of such emergency protective order.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB874
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
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; Town of Kilmarnock. Updates the charter of the Town of Kilmarnock in Lancaster County to reflect the shift to November municipal elections as required by general law and removes a reference to the mayor for purposes of calculating a quorum. The bill also provides that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed appropriating money exceeding the sum of $500, rather than the $100 limit as specified in the current charter, except by the recorded affirmative vote of a majority of all members elected to the council.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB875
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions. Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB876
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; immunization requirements. Prohibits any child from being denied admission to school for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. The bill also prohibits the State Board of Health from adopting any regulation requiring immunization against COVID-19 for attendance at any public elementary or secondary school.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB877
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Admission to bail; act of violence. Provides that a magistrate shall not admit a person to bail who is charged with an act of violence without the consent of the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which the case it filed.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB878
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Voter registration; noncitizens of the United States; penalty. Provides that a person who is not a citizen of the United States is not entitled to register to vote and makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to intentionally procure, assist, or induce another to register to vote knowing that such person is not a United States citizen.