Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB879
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Deferred disposition in a criminal case for persons with autism or intellectual disabilities; child pornography offenses. Adds child pornography offenses to the list of offenses that are ineligible for a court to apply the deferred disposition provisions where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB880
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Absentee voting; absentee voting in person available beginning seven days prior to any election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to the week beginning seven days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 days prior to the election.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB881
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious act that resulted in the killing of another involved the manufacture, sale, gift, or distribution of a Schedule I or II controlled substance to another and (i) such other person's death results from his use of the controlled substance and (ii) the controlled substance is the proximate cause of his death. The bill provides that venue for a prosecution of this crime shall lie in the locality where the underlying felony occurred, where the use of the controlled substance occurred, or where death occurred. The bill also provides that if a person gave or distributed a Schedule I or II controlled substance only as an accommodation to another individual who is not an inmate in a community correctional facility, local correctional facility, or state correctional facility, or in the custody of an employee thereof, and not with intent to profit thereby from any consideration received or expected nor to induce the recipient of the controlled substance to use or become addicted to or dependent upon such controlled substance, he is guilty of a Class 5 felony. Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious act that resulted in the killing of another involved the manufacture, sale, gift, or distribution of a Schedule I or II controlled substance to another and (i) such other person's death results from his use of the controlled substance and (ii) the controlled substance is the proximate cause of his death. The bill provides that venue for a prosecution of this crime shall lie in the locality where the underlying felony occurred, where the use of the controlled substance occurred, or where death occurred. The bill also provides that if a person gave or distributed a Schedule I or II controlled substance only as an accommodation to another individual who is not an inmate in a community correctional facility, local correctional facility, or state correctional facility, or in the custody of an employee thereof, and not with intent to profit thereby from any consideration received or expected nor to induce the recipient of the controlled substance to use or become addicted to or dependent upon such controlled substance, he is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB882
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
2/27/23
Passed
2/27/23
Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2021, to December 31, 2022. The bill enacts Chapters 6 and 18 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB883
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Standards for accreditation; school accreditation review frequency. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Education perform a triennial review of the accreditation status of a public school that has been fully accredited for three consecutive years. The bill also eliminates the provision permitting the Board to do a review of the accreditation status of any other school once every two or three years and the requirement that any such school receiving a multiyear accreditation status other than full accreditation be covered by a Board-approved multiyear corrective action plan. Under the bill, the Board is required to review annually the accreditation status of all schools in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB884
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Elections; registration, absentee voting, and conduct of election. Repeals provisions of law permitting registration on election day; requires an excuse to vote absentee; removes the option to vote absentee in person; requires absentee ballots to either be accompanied by a copy of an approved form of identification or be notarized; requires absentee ballots returned to drop boxes to be returned by the voter; requires absentee ballots to be received by the general registrar by the close of polls on election day in order to be counted; requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote; repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be; eliminates the use of electronic poll books and voting machines while polls are open; and requires that ballots be manually tabulated in order to determine the results of an election.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB885
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority; work group; alternative beer distribution program; report. Directs the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to convene a work group to evaluate alternative avenues of distribution that could be made available to limited brewery and certain brewery licensees. The bill establishes the membership of the work group and directs the work group to develop a legislative proposal that includes (i) analysis of a distribution program similar to the Virginia Winery Distribution Company; (ii) criteria for determining which limited brewery or brewery licensees will be eligible to participate in the distribution program; (iii) criteria for determining which products and the quantity of products that may be distributed through the program; (iv) an implementation plan that includes all actions, including the phasing and sequencing of actions, necessary to make the distribution program operational; (v) a funding model; and (vi) resolution of all issues that remain to be undertaken from the Department's work group required by Chapter 334 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022. The bill requires the Authority to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by September 15, 2023. Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority; work group; alternative beer distribution program; report. Directs the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to convene a work group to evaluate alternative avenues of distribution that could be made available to limited brewery and certain brewery licensees. The bill establishes the membership of the work group and directs the work group to develop a legislative proposal that includes (i) analysis of a distribution program similar to the Virginia Winery Distribution Company; (ii) criteria for determining which limited brewery or brewery licensees will be eligible to participate in the distribution program; (iii) criteria for determining which products and the quantity of products that may be distributed through the program; (iv) an implementation plan that includes all actions, including the phasing and sequencing of actions, necessary to make the distribution program operational; (v) a funding model; and (vi) resolution of all issues that remain to be undertaken from the Department's work group required by Chapter 334 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022. The bill requires the Authority to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by September 15, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB886
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain home health workers. The bill removes requirements that workers work on average at least 20 hours per week or 90 hours per month to be eligible for paid sick leave. Under the bill, an employee of an employer with fewer than 25 employees is not considered a grocery store worker. The bill provides that certain health care providers may waive their right to accrue and use paid sick leave and provides an exemption for employers of certain other health care providers. The bill requires the Department of Labor and Industry to develop guidelines for retail employers that sell groceries to provide sick leave and to publish such guidelines by December 1, 2023. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department of Labor and Industry to develop guidelines have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024. Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain home health workers. The bill removes requirements that workers work on average at least 20 hours per week or 90 hours per month to be eligible for paid sick leave. Under the bill, an employee of an employer with fewer than 25 employees is not considered a grocery store worker. The bill provides that certain health care providers may waive their right to accrue and use paid sick leave and provides an exemption for employers of certain other health care providers. The bill requires the Department of Labor and Industry to develop guidelines for retail employers that sell groceries to provide sick leave and to publish such guidelines by December 1, 2023. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department of Labor and Industry to develop guidelines have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB887
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/13/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing. Prohibits the use of restorative housing, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that an incarcerated person who has been placed in restorative housing be offered a minimum of four hours of out-of-cell programmatic interventions or other congregate activities per day aimed at promoting personal development or addressing underlying causes of problematic behavior. The bill also requires the facility administrator to have a defined and publicly available policy and procedure for the process of transitioning an incarcerated person placed in restorative housing out of such housing and back to the general population of the facility.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB888
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Engrossed
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/9/23
Consecutive terms of imprisonment. Eliminates the required imposition of mandatory consecutive sentences of imprisonment.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB889
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Local correctional facilities; fees; report. Eliminates or caps certain fees charged to inmates in local correctional facilities and repeals provisions that allow a sheriff or jail superintendent to establish a deferred or installment payment agreement or contract with a collections agency when an inmate is unable to pay fees owed to the local correctional facility. The bill establishes the manner in which the balance of all accounts maintained for an inmate's use must be transferred to the inmate upon release. The bill directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to create a work group to study implementation of the provisions of the bill and report to the General Assembly by October 1, 2023. The remainder of the bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB89
Introduced
1/5/22
Refer
1/5/22
Pet shops; sale of unneutered or unspayed dogs and cats prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a pet shop from selling a dog or cat unless it has first been spayed or neutered. A violation is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB890
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Veterans' Teaching Licensure Support Fund and Program; established. Establishes the Veterans' Teaching Licensure Support Fund and Program for the purpose of supporting veterans and service members teaching in a public school in the Commonwealth or pursuing a career in education in the Commonwealth by awarding a reimbursement grant to eligible veterans and service members to reimburse them for their professional studies tuition expenses incurred toward receiving teacher licensure in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB891
Introduced
1/4/23
Refer
1/4/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits. Increases from 15 to 30 days the additional time period that a landlord has to provide a tenant with an itemization of damages to the premises and the cost of repair when such damages exceed the amount of the tenant's security deposit and require the services of a third-party contractor. The bill has an expiration date of June 30, 2024, and is identical to
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB892
Introduced
1/5/23
Refer
1/5/23
Education improvement scholarships tax credits; student definition. Provides that beginning in taxable year 2024, students eligible for a scholarship from an approved scholarship foundation shall include any school-aged child living in Virginia whose family income does not exceed 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines, regardless of prior public school enrollment or a recent move to Virginia. Under current law, a student must be a resident of Virginia who (i) in the current school year has enrolled and attended a public school in the Commonwealth for at least one-half of the year, (ii) for the school year that immediately preceded his receipt of a scholarship foundation scholarship was enrolled and attended a public school in the Commonwealth for at least one-half of the year, (iii) is a prior recipient of a scholarship foundation scholarship, (iv) is eligible to enter kindergarten or eligible to enter first grade, or (v) for the school year that immediately preceded his receipt of a scholarship foundation scholarship was domiciled in a state other than the Commonwealth and did not attend a nonpublic school in the Commonwealth for more than one-half of the school year.