Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB923
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/13/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Refer
2/14/23
Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program (the Program) to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social services (local boards) in order to avoid foster care. The bill provides that a child is eligible to participate in the Program if the local board determines that (i) the child is at imminent risk of being removed from his home and a preliminary protective order is insufficient to address the child's immediate safety concerns and (ii) the child's parent or guardian consents to the placement of the child with a relative pursuant to an agreement with the local board developed in accordance with the provisions of the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB924
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Burial fees for military spouses. Provides that, from such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise received for such purpose, the Commonwealth shall pay any burial fee for (i) a member of the National Guard and Reserve or (ii) a deceased spouse of a member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces or of the National Guard and Reserve, regardless of whether such spouse's death precedes or succeeds the death of the member or veteran.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB925
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Patient visitation; visitation from clergy members. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities to allow patients to receive visits from clergy members during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat. Under the bill, the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility may require the clergy member to comply with all reasonable health and safety requirements and may restrict visits of a clergy member who fails a health screening measure or tests positive for a communicable disease of public health concern. If the health and safety requirement substantially burdens the clergy member's free exercise of religion, the hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility may require compliance only if the requirement furthers a compelling health and safety interest and imposes the least restrictive requirement. The bill provides immunity for hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities and their employees and contractors from liability for injury or death due to exposure to a communicable disease of public health concern resulting from or related to such visitation, except in limited circumstances. The bill also allows a person or religious organization to bring a civil action against a hospital, nursing home, or certified nursing facility alleging a violation of such visitation provisions.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB926
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Refer
2/14/23
Emergency Department Care Management Grant Program and Fund; report. Establishes the Emergency Department Care Management Grant Program and the Emergency Department Care Management Grant Fund. The bill provides that the Program is established to provide grants to eligible hospitals that provide care management and medical services to frequent users of hospital emergency departments, with grants to be awarded to (i) reduce patient usage of emergency departments for routine, nonurgent, primary medical care; (ii) support emergency department case management staff; (iii) identify and analyze the comprehensive health care needs of patients; (iv) identify social determinants of health and barriers to care; (v) facilitate collaboration with providers and payers to develop a plan for community care; and (vi) improve the ability of patients to manage their care in the community. The bill directs the Department of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of the Program and requires the State Health Commissioner to report the Department's findings to the General Assembly and the Joint Commission on Health Care by October 1, 2027. The provisions of the bill sunset on July 1, 2028, and are contingent on funding in the general appropriation act. Emergency Department Care Management Grant Program and Fund; report. Establishes the Emergency Department Care Management Grant Program and the Emergency Department Care Management Grant Fund. The bill provides that the Program is established to provide grants to eligible hospitals that provide care management and medical services to frequent users of hospital emergency departments, with grants to be awarded to (i) reduce patient usage of emergency departments for routine, nonurgent, primary medical care; (ii) support emergency department case management staff; (iii) identify and analyze the comprehensive health care needs of patients; (iv) identify social determinants of health and barriers to care; (v) facilitate collaboration with providers and payers to develop a plan for community care; and (vi) improve the ability of patients to manage their care in the community. The bill directs the Department of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of the Program and requires the State Health Commissioner to report the Department's findings to the General Assembly and the Joint Commission on Health Care by October 1, 2027. The provisions of the bill sunset on July 1, 2028, and are contingent on funding in the general appropriation act.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB927
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
State Corporation Commission; work group; health carrier fair business standards. Directs the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance to convene a work group to develop recommendations for regulatory and legislative changes necessary to improve the process for determining if an insurance carrier has failed to implement minimum fair business standards in the performance of its provider contracts for the prompt payment of claims. The Bureau shall submit a report of the findings and recommendations of the work group by December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB928
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Claims; Michael Haas; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $1,530,653 to Michael Haas, who was wrongly convicted of forcible sodomy.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB929
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/7/23
Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB930
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal condition to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's life in a humane and dignified manner. The bill requires that a patient's request for a self-administered controlled substance to end his life must be given orally on two occasions and in writing, signed by the patient and one witness, and that the patient be given an express opportunity to rescind his request at any time. The bill makes it a Class 2 felony (i) to willfully and deliberately alter, forge, conceal, or destroy a patient's request, or rescission of request, for a self-administered controlled substance to end his life with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death; (ii) to coerce, intimidate, or exert undue influence on a patient to request a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending his life or to destroy the patient's rescission of such request with the intent and effect of causing the patient's death; or (iii) to coerce, intimidate, or exert undue influence on a patient to forgo a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's life. The bill also grants immunity from civil or criminal liability and professional disciplinary action to any person who complies with the provisions of the bill and allows health care providers to refuse to participate in the provision of a self-administered controlled substance to a patient for the purpose of ending the patient's life.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB931
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Disposition of unrestorably incompetent defendant; acts of violence. Provides that the same disposition procedures currently in place for an unrestorably incompetent defendant charged with aggravated murder shall also apply to an unrestorably incompetent defendant charged with an act of violence, which include procedures providing that such charge shall not be dismissed and that the court may order that the defendant receive continued treatment to restore competency, provided that (i) hearings be held at yearly intervals for five years and at biennial intervals thereafter, or at any time that the director of the treating facility or his designee submits a competency report to the court that the defendant's competency has been restored; (ii) the defendant remains incompetent; (iii) the court finds continued treatment to be medically appropriate; and (iv) the defendant presents a danger to himself or others. Under current law, if a defendant charged with an act of violence is found to be unrestorably incompetent, the court shall order that he be (a) released, (b) involuntarily committed, (c) certified as eligible for admission to a training center, or if applicable (d) screened for civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB932
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board established; report; Drug Control Act reclassification of psilocybin. Establishes the Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board to develop a long-term strategic plan for establishing therapeutic access to psilocybin services and monitor and study federal laws, regulations, and policies regarding psilocybin. The bill requires the Board to report annually by December 1 to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its activities and recommendations. The bill reclassifies psilocybin under the Drug Control Act from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB933
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Single-use plastic carrier bags; local prohibition. Authorizes a locality to prohibit by ordinance the purchase, sale, or provision, whether free or for a cost, of any single-use plastic carrier bag that is not recyclable from grocery stores, retail stores, and convenience stores.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB934
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
State agencies; telecommuting policy. Increases the target for eligible state employee participation in telecommuting from 20 percent to 45 percent by January 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB935
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/10/23
Teachers; development of a teacher licensure website and licensure application portal. Directs the Department of Education to develop and maintain an easily accessible and streamlined website to provide clarification on teacher licensure and endorsement requirements, including information on specific requirements and certification credentials based on the specific type of licensure or endorsement. The bill also directs the Department to develop and maintain a teacher licensure application portal to integrate all forms and payment required for licensure and that includes (i) a feature enabling any teacher to track his progress in earning professional development points, completing licensure renewal requirements, and fulfilling any additional credentialing or endorsement options offered by the Board of Education and (ii) options for sharing and sending any application documents and forms to allow Educator Preparation Programs or division leadership to review and approve such documents and forms prior to the Department review process.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB936
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
2/10/23
Department of Emergency Management; comprehensive extreme heat emergency response plan. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to develop a comprehensive extreme heat emergency response plan by November 1, 2023. Such plan shall include criteria for (i) developing a heat adaptation plan, (ii) convening a heat emergency coordination team to facilitate coordination across state agencies, (iii) establishing public cooling spaces, (iv) developing extreme heat health warning systems and protocols, (v) establishing partnerships with community-based organizations to provide services and support to all communities, and (vi) examining housing cooling needs.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB937
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Television Production Development Grant Program and Fund; established; report. Establishes the Television Production Development Grant Program and Fund that allows the Virginia Tourism Authority, with assistance from the Virginia Film Office, to award competitive grants to businesses in the television industry for filming or investing in television production or television production related infrastructure projects in the Commonwealth. The Office and the Authority shall submit a report every two years detailing television industry and related infrastructure spending in the Commonwealth and information related to the issuance of such grants through the Program from the Fund.