Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB968
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill 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, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB969
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/11/23
Engrossed
1/16/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; alternative purchases. Removes the requirement under the Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act that a time-share instrument executed by a time-share estate project developer state whether such developer reserves the right to add to or delete any alternative purchase and requires that the public offering statement distributed to each prospective purchaser of a time-share disclose whether the developer will offer any alternative purchase.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB970
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Department of Health Professions; applications for licensure, certification, and registration; mental health conditions and impairment; emergency. Directs each health regulatory board within the Department of Health Professions to amend its licensure, certification, and registration applications to remove any existing questions pertaining to mental health conditions and impairment and to include the following questions: (i) Do you have any reason to believe that you would pose a risk to the safety or well-being of your patients or clients? and (ii) Are you able to perform the essential functions of a practitioner in your area of practice with or without reasonable accommodation? The bill contains an emergency clause.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB971
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Magistrates; law-enforcement observation; annual requirement. Requires each magistrate appointed by the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to ride along with an on-duty law-enforcement officer in the magisterial region that such magistrate represents for a minimum of six hours annually. The bill mandates that, by July 1, 2024, every magistrate shall have completed the first of such required ride-alongs, and each year thereafter by December 31.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB972
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Powers of State Health Commissioner in epidemic; vaccine; religious tenets or practices. Allows a parent or guardian to object to the vaccination or immunization of a child on the grounds that the administration of immunizing agents conflicts with his religious tenets or practices, even if an emergency or epidemic of disease has been declared by the State Board of Health, which is not allowed under current law. The bill also provides that nothing shall preclude the State Health Commissioner from requiring immediate immunization of all persons in the case of an epidemic of any disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists other than a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects on the grounds that the administration of the vaccine conflicts with his religious tenets or practices. Under current law, the only exception to the Commissioner's power to require immediate immunization of all persons in case of an epidemic of any disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists is for a person to whose health the administration of a vaccine would be detrimental as certified in writing by a physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB973
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any civilly committed sexually violent predator who tampers with or in any way attempts to circumvent the operation of his GPS equipment while on conditional release.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB974
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Engrossed
1/19/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Financial institutions; consumer finance companies; authority of Attorney General to issue civil investigative demand. Authorizes the Attorney General, whenever he has reasonable cause to believe that any person not licensed by the State Corporation Commission has violated any provision relating to consumer finance companies, to issue a civil investigative demand.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB975
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners; designation as advanced practice registered nurses. Changes references to certain practitioners in the Code to advanced practice registered nurse in order to align the Code with the professional designations established by the Consensus Model for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Regulation established by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners; designation as advanced practice registered nurses. Changes references to certain practitioners in the Code to advanced practice registered nurse in order to align the Code with the professional designations established by the Consensus Model for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Regulation established by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB976
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/11/23
Engrossed
1/16/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Virginia Self-Service Storage Act; default by occupant; watercraft. Allows the owner of a self-storage facility, in the case of a stored watercraft for which an occupant has been in default for more than 60 days, to have such watercraft towed in lieu of conducting a public sale of such watercraft.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB977
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Transit Ridership Incentive Program; on-demand microtransit operations. Includes the development and implementation of on-demand microtransit operations, defined in the bill, to incentivize and promote transit ridership, as part of the goal of the Transit Ridership Incentive Program. The bill provides that an approved initiative or service is eligible to continue receiving funding for the duration of the Program on an annual basis, for up to 80 percent of costs, from funds that are available to the urbanized area in which the initiative or service is located.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB978
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Keeper of vehicles; liens; certain towing and recovery drivers and operators. Expands a keeper of vehicles' lien in the case of a tow truck driver or towing and recovery operator furnishing services to a truck, tractor truck, or combination of vehicles, including those that are rented or leased, to apply to any power unit, tractor, trailer, or semitrailer in the combination. The bill clarifies that a keeper of vehicles' lien does not extend to cargo, extends the duty of a keeper of vehicles to allow retrieval to permit the vehicle or cargo owner to access the vehicle to retrieve their cargo, and allows the keeper of vehicles to dispose of unclaimed cargo. The bill also adds tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators furnishing services involving cleanup related to vehicle collisions to the definition of "keeper of vehicles." Keeper of vehicles; liens; certain towing and recovery drivers and operators. Expands a keeper of vehicles' lien in the case of a tow truck driver or towing and recovery operator furnishing services to a truck, tractor truck, or combination of vehicles, including those that are rented or leased, to apply to any power unit, tractor, trailer, or semitrailer in the combination. The bill clarifies that a keeper of vehicles' lien does not extend to cargo, extends the duty of a keeper of vehicles to allow retrieval to permit the vehicle or cargo owner to access the vehicle to retrieve their cargo, and allows the keeper of vehicles to dispose of unclaimed cargo. The bill also adds tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators furnishing services involving cleanup related to vehicle collisions to the definition of "keeper of vehicles."
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB979
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Towing trespassing vehicles; limitations on fees. Prohibits localities from setting limits on towing fees and other associated fees for trespassing passenger cars and vehicles that are lower than the respective statewide maximum charges authorized for such fees in localities without a local ordinance setting towing fees; removes current specified limits for Planning Districts 8 and 16 that would fall below those limits; and requires an ordinance adopted by a locality that sets such limits to provide that no more than two additional fees can be charged for towing any vehicle between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. or on any Saturday, Sunday, or holiday. The bill changes current statewide trespass towing fee limits on hookup and initial towing fees of passenger cars from $150 to $180 and additional fees for towing between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. or on any Saturday, Sunday, or holiday from $30 to $35.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB980
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Secretary of Transportation; Disadvantaged Business Enterprises; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to convene a work group to evaluate how the Department of Transportation determines the usage of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) on specific transportation projects with the goal of increasing participation statewide in transportation contracts by small business owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. The bill specifies certain individuals and groups that will be members of the work group and directs the work group to report its findings and any recommended legislative, regulatory, or policy changes to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on Transportation by September 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB981
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Flashing red and white warning lights; emergency vehicle exemptions; WMATA Response and Recovery Coordination Branch vehicles. Authorizes vehicles operated by the Response and Recovery Coordination Branch of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Office of Emergency Preparedness to (i) be equipped with flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights and (ii) disregard certain regulations regarding the operation of vehicles without being subject to criminal prosecution while responding to an emergency, provided that the operator of such vehicle has received certain training and recertifies every two years. The bill adds responding to metropolitan transit-related incidents to the list of circumstances in which such lighted warning lights shall be displayed.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB982
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/12/23
Engrossed
1/17/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Yielding or reducing speed for stationary vehicles; vehicles displaying hazard lights, caution signs, or road flares. Requires drivers to make a lane change or reduce speed when passing stationary vehicles that have activated the vehicular hazard warning signal flashers, displayed caution signs, or been marked with properly lit flares or torches on certain highways when safe and reasonable to do so and makes a violation of this requirement a traffic infraction.