Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB983
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Alcoholic beverage control; winery and farm winery licenses; requirements and privileges. Makes numerous changes to the privileges of and requirements for winery and farm winery licenses. Such changes relate to the characteristics of and tasks to be performed on the licensed premises, license qualifications, manufacturing and sale requirements and limitations, and utilization of contract winemaking services. Alcoholic beverage control; winery and farm winery licenses; requirements and privileges. Makes numerous changes to the privileges of and requirements for winery and farm winery licenses. Such changes relate to the characteristics of and tasks to be performed on the licensed premises, license qualifications, manufacturing and sale requirements and limitations, and utilization of contract winemaking services.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB984
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Electric utilities; net metering. Provides that a contract that provides for the ownership, maintenance, or operation of an electrical generating facility by a third party through a lease agreement with fixed monthly payments does not constitute the sale of electricity and does not cause an eligible customer-generator or the third party that owns, maintains, or operates the electrical generating facility through such a lease agreement to be considered an electric utility. The bill prohibits an eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator from being required to provide proof of liability insurance or to purchase additional liability insurance as a condition of interconnection. The bill exempts eligible customer-generators and eligible agricultural customer-generators that operate a battery storage device in conjunction with an electrical generating facility from standby charges. The bill provides that net metering provisions do not limit the ability of an eligible customer-generator or eligible agricultural customer-generator to participate in a distributed energy resource aggregation or other retail program involving demand response, energy efficiency, or peak reduction from dispatch of onsite battery service, provided that the compensation received is in exchange for a distinct service that is not already compensated by net metering credits for electricity exported to the electric distribution system.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB985
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Virginia Retail Sales and Use Tax Act; agricultural exemptions; structural construction materials. Exempts from certain retail sales and use taxes structural construction materials that are an integral part of a commercial greenhouse structure and growing system, ordered to meet the specifications of an operator of such system, and intended to be affixed to or integrated into a commercial greenhouse structure that is at least 50,000 square feet in size. Current law specifies that structural construction materials to be affixed to real property owned or leased by a farmer, necessary for use in agricultural production for market, and sold to or purchased by a farmer or contractor are not exempt from such taxation.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB986
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/16/23
Engrossed
1/19/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Corporations; filing and meeting requirements. Eliminates the requirement that a document filed with the State Corporation Commission pursuant to the Virginia Stock Corporation Act include the terms, including the preferences, rights, and limitations, of each class or series of shares. The bill changes the timeframe during which a corporation must make available for inspection the shareholders list prepared for a shareholders' meeting from two business days after notice of such shareholders' meeting through such shareholders' meeting to five business days after notice of such shareholders' meeting through the close of business on the last business day before such shareholders' meeting. Finally, the bill eliminates the requirement that a corporation make available for inspection at either an in-person shareholders' meeting or a remote shareholders' meeting the list of shareholders entitled to vote at such shareholders' meeting.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB987
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
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Guardianship and conservatorship; periodic review hearings. Requires the court to set up a schedule for periodic review hearings in the order of appointment of a guardian or conservator, unless the court makes a determination that such hearings are unnecessary or impracticable. The bill further provides that any periodic review hearing shall include the following assessments by the court: (i) the likelihood that the respondent's condition will improve or the respondent will regain capacity, (ii) whether concerns or questions were raised about the suitability of the person appointed as a guardian or conservator at the time of the initial appointment, and (iii) whether the appointment of a guardian or conservator or the appointment of the specifically appointed guardian or conservator was contested by the respondent or another party.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB988
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/13/23
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
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusions; residential home sales between natural persons. Excludes residential home sales between natural persons involving the seller's private residence from the provisions of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusions; residential home sales between natural persons. Excludes residential home sales between natural persons involving the seller's private residence from the provisions of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB989
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Requires an attorney for the Commonwealth to consult with a crime victim in a felony case to (i) inform the victim of the contents of a proposed plea agreement and (ii) obtain the victim's views about the disposition of the case. The bill provides that the victim shall be notified of any proceeding in which the plea agreement will be tendered to the court. The bill also provides that the attorney for the Commonwealth may satisfy his notification responsibilities by consulting with a parent or guardian of an unemancipated minor victim, if the parent or guardian is not a suspect, person of interest, or defendant in the criminal investigation of the proceeding. Under current law, such consultation and notification is required only upon the victim's request.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB990
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise. Clarifies that no minister of religion shall be required to give testimony or evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding that would disclose confidential information provided to him by a person seeking spiritual counsel or advice unless such person seeking spiritual counsel or advise requests or consents to such disclosure from such minister of religion.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB991
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Public institutions of higher education; immunization requirements. Declares that the General Assembly has the sole authority to impose immunization requirements on students enrolled in public institutions of higher education and any policy or any revision to any policy of a public institution of higher education relating to immunization requirements is void to the extent that it is inconsistent with the law of the Commonwealth. The bill also expands the scope of exemptions from such immunization requirements by (i) providing that any student shall be exempt from the immunization requirements or from the health history requirement if the student or, if such student is under the age of 18, the parent of such student objects on the grounds that compliance with the requirement would conflict with the student's or the parent's religious tenets or practices and (ii) removing the exception providing that the religious exemption to any immunization requirement shall not apply if the Board of Health declares an emergency or epidemic of disease.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB992
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Tax on cigars. Modifies the statutory tax rate imposed on selling or distributing cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller by setting such rate at 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or $0.30 per cigar, whichever is less. Under current law, the effective rate is 20 percent of the manufacturer's sales price due to language in the Appropriation Act which doubles the statutory rate.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB993
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees; membership. Expands from 19 to 20 members the total membership of the Virginia Land Conservation Board of Trustees by adding an additional nonlegislative citizen member and stipulates that the 12 nonlegislative citizen members shall include one person from each of the 11 congressional districts and one member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe. Current law stipulates that the 11 nonlegislative citizen members shall include one person from each congressional district, at least one of whom shall be a member of a state-recognized or federally recognized Virginia Indian Tribe.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB994
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Refer
2/10/23
Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee, also created by the bill. The Committee is made up of four members of the General Assembly and 11 nonlegislative citizen members who monitor the activities of the Ombudsman and the Department of Corrections. The bill provides the Office's authority to conduct inspections at least once every three years and more often when warranted of Department or Board of Local and Regional Jails facilities and requires the Office to establish confidential telephone hotlines and online forms for concerns, complaints, and inquiries by inmates, their family members and advocates, and Department employees and contractors. In addition, the bill requires the Committee to conduct quarterly public hearings and submit an annual report to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the Director of the Department. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee, also created by the bill. The Committee is made up of four members of the General Assembly and 11 nonlegislative citizen members who monitor the activities of the Ombudsman and the Department of Corrections. The bill provides the Office's authority to conduct inspections at least once every three years and more often when warranted of Department or Board of Local and Regional Jails facilities and requires the Office to establish confidential telephone hotlines and online forms for concerns, complaints, and inquiries by inmates, their family members and advocates, and Department employees and contractors. In addition, the bill requires the Committee to conduct quarterly public hearings and submit an annual report to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the Director of the Department. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB995
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
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Use of handheld personal communication devices in certain motor vehicles. Clarifies the penalty structure for a first offense and a second or subsequent offense of using a handheld personal communication device in certain motor vehicles, as well as the mandatory fine for a violation within a highway work zone, to accommodate the Supreme Court's case management system. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is declarative of existing law and is identical to
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB996
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
2/21/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Litter tax; penalty for failure to timely pay. Prohibits the Department of Taxation from imposing any penalty or interest for failure to pay the litter tax without first notifying the taxpayer at least 30 days prior to the date that a return must be filed.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB997
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/17/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Oyster Shell Waste Diversion Fund; created. Creates the Oyster Shell Waste Diversion Fund for the purpose of diverting oyster shells from landfills and promoting the beneficial reuse of such shells in oyster restoration activities. The Fund shall be administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which shall be authorized to contract with an entity that is exempt from taxation pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is engaged in oyster restoration activities to manage Fund operations consistent with the purposes of the Fund. Oyster Shell Waste Diversion Fund; created. Creates the Oyster Shell Waste Diversion Fund for the purpose of diverting oyster shells from landfills and promoting the beneficial reuse of such shells in oyster restoration activities. The Fund shall be administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which shall be authorized to contract with an entity that is exempt from taxation pursuant to § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is engaged in oyster restoration activities to manage Fund operations consistent with the purposes of the Fund.