Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1713
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Certain child day programs exempt from licensure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction; age of children in attendance. Clarifies that any child day program offered by a private school accredited by and in good standing with the Virginia Council for Private Education, operated for no more than four hours per day, staffed by the accredited private school's employees, and attended by school-age children who are enrolled in the accredited private school is exempt from licensure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Current law provides a licensure exemption for any such program that is attended by children who are at least five years of age.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1714
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Stolen or embezzled vehicle; notification of toll operator. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, if a vehicle registration has been suspended due to being reported stolen or embezzled, to include notice of such suspension using the words "stolen or embezzled" when providing vehicle owner information to the Department of Transportation or other toll operator requesting such information for the purpose of toll enforcement and prohibits the issuance of a citation for an unpaid toll to the owner of such vehicle if such suspension was in effect at the time of the violation.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1715
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Department of Labor and Industry; work group to evaluate workplace violence. Directs the Department of Labor and Industry to convene a work group for the purpose of evaluating the prevalence of workplace violence in the Commonwealth, including its effects on the workplace and measures to address workplace violence. The bill requires the work group to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Commerce and Energy and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor no later than December 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1716
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Safety and Health Codes Board; mental health resources. Directs the Safety and Health Codes Board within the Department of Labor and Industry to include mental health resources from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services on the Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program's Job Safety and Health Protection poster that employers are required to keep posted in the workplace.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1717
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; frequency; report. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate more frequently than once every five years in any training relating to the etiology, prevention, transmission modes, and effects of blood-borne pathogens; treating students with seizures and seizure disorders, including information about seizure recognition and related first aid; the appropriate management of student conduct and student offenses in violation of school board policies; or secure mandatory test violations. The bill requires each such teacher who completes any such training to sign a written attestation that the teacher has been trained in and understands the relevant subject matter. The bill requires each local school board to report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly no later than October 1, 2023, on the frequency with which each public elementary and secondary school teacher in the local school division participates in each required training or professional development activity.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1718
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Community corrections alternative program. Requires defendants to enter into and complete the community corrections alternative program ("CCAP") after (i) a recommendation from the Department of Corrections ("Department"), (ii) a determination by the court that the defendant will benefit from the community corrections alternative program and is capable of returning to society as a productive citizen following successful completion of the program, and (iii) the defendant would otherwise be committed to the Department. The bill provides that if the defendant is removed from the program for intractable behavior or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of probation, the court shall show cause the defendant to show cause why his probation and suspension of sentence should not be revoked. Community corrections alternative program. Requires defendants to enter into and complete the community corrections alternative program ("CCAP") after (i) a recommendation from the Department of Corrections ("Department"), (ii) a determination by the court that the defendant will benefit from the community corrections alternative program and is capable of returning to society as a productive citizen following successful completion of the program, and (iii) the defendant would otherwise be committed to the Department. The bill provides that if the defendant is removed from the program for intractable behavior or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of probation, the court shall show cause the defendant to show cause why his probation and suspension of sentence should not be revoked. The bill also directs the Parole Board to require violators to enter into and complete CCAP upon the same above conditions; the Parole Board may revoke parole or mandatory release and recommit the violator upon removal from the program by the Department for intractable behavior or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of parole or mandatory release. Current law allows defendants/parole violators to be placed on probation conditioned upon entry and successful competition of CCAP and directs the court to require a defendant to show cause why his probation and suspension of sentence should not be revoked on the grounds of his voluntary withdrawal from the program.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1719
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Release or dissemination of information from the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; whistleblower protection; report. Provides that any release or dissemination of information from the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center made in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act is not punishable. The bill also requires the Department of State Police to prepare a report to the Governor and the General Assembly summarizing its triennial review of information contained in any database maintained by the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center. Release or dissemination of information from the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center; whistleblower protection; report. Provides that any release or dissemination of information from the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center made in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of the Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act is not punishable. The bill also requires the Department of State Police to prepare a report to the Governor and the General Assembly summarizing its triennial review of information contained in any database maintained by the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1720
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment by either party. The bill also repeals the provision allowing for a divorce from bed and board on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment. The provisions of the bill apply to suits for divorce filed on or after July 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1721
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and Education and Health by December 1, 2023.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1722
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Mineral mining and processing; use of certain chemicals prohibited. Prohibits any miner or other person from using cyanide, a cyanide compound, or sulfuric acid in any mineral mining or processing operation.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1723
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Passing stopped school buses; purpose of stop; prima facie evidence. Makes evidence that a bus was stopped with at least one warning device activated prima facie evidence that the bus was stopped for the purpose of taking on or discharging children, the elderly, or mentally or physically handicapped persons.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1724
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Improvements, repairs, or maintenance of property; entering adjoining property; petition for entry. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property to petition the circuit court for a license to enter adjoining property for the purpose of performing the improvements, repairs, or maintenance when the property is so situated that it is impossible to perform the improvements, repairs, or maintenance without entering such adjoining property and permission to enter such adjoining property has been denied. The bill provides that such license shall be granted by the court in an appropriate case upon such terms as justice requires. Any such entry shall not be deemed a trespass, and the licensee shall be liable to the adjoining owner or his lessee for actual damages occurring as a result of the entry.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1725
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Fair Housing Law; use of assistance animal in a dwelling; penalties. Prohibits certain persons from providing fraudulent supporting documentation to evince the existence of a disability or disability-related need for a person requesting a reasonable accommodation with respect to the use of an assistance animal in a dwelling. The bill adds a violation of such prohibition as a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1726
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Department of Education; Virginia-based nonprofit organizations; schools for adults to earn credentials, college credit, and high school diplomas. Requires the Department of Education to authorize a Virginia-based nonprofit organization with demonstrated evidence of positive student outcomes to provide schools for adults to earn (i) (a) an industry-recognized credential awarded through a partnership with a Virginia-based community college or an approved training provider or (b) dual college credit awarded through a partnership with a Virginia-based community college and (ii) a high school diploma on one or more diploma pathways set forth in the relevant Board of Education regulation in which enrollment is open, on a space-available basis, to adults who reside throughout the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1727
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/12/23
Engrossed
1/17/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Credit unions; virtual currency custody services. Permits a credit union in the Commonwealth to engage in virtual currency custody services, provided that the credit union has adequate protocols in place to effectively manage the associated risks and comply with applicable laws and, prior to offering virtual currency custody services, the credit union has carefully examined the risks in offering such services through a methodical self-assessment process. To engage in such services, the credit union must implement effective risk management systems, maintain adequate insurance coverage, and maintain a service provider oversight program. The bill allows that such credit union may provide such services in a fiduciary or nonfiduciary capacity; however, no credit union shall provide virtual currency custody services in a fiduciary capacity without first obtaining authorization to do so from the State Corporation Commission.