Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1743
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive sealed bidding; Invitation to Bid; required statements. Requires every written Invitation to Bid issued pursuant to the Virginia Public Procurement Act to incorporate certain statements of qualifications for potential contractors related to responsible contracting, direct hiring, prevailing wages, and participation in apprenticeship programs.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1744
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Adoption and foster care; home study reciprocity. Provides that home studies conducted by a local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency for the purpose of placing a child in a foster home or with an adoptive family shall, on and after January 1, 2024, be transferable between all localities, local boards, and licensed child-placing agencies within the Commonwealth at the request of the prospective foster parent or the prospective adoptive parent, subject to any time limitations or other requirements imposed by law or regulation. The bill requires all home studies to be conducted in accordance with the Mutual Family Assessment home study template and any addenda thereto developed by the Department of Social Services. The bill directs the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations that establish market rates for such home studies. Adoption and foster care; home study reciprocity. Provides that home studies conducted by a local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency for the purpose of placing a child in a foster home or with an adoptive family shall, on and after January 1, 2024, be transferable between all localities, local boards, and licensed child-placing agencies within the Commonwealth at the request of the prospective foster parent or the prospective adoptive parent, subject to any time limitations or other requirements imposed by law or regulation. The bill requires all home studies to be conducted in accordance with the Mutual Family Assessment home study template and any addenda thereto developed by the Department of Social Services. The bill directs the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations that establish market rates for such home studies.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1745
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators; prohibited acts. Prohibits tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators from monitoring law-enforcement communications in order to determine the location of a wrecked or disabled vehicle that is subject to a law-enforcement-requested tow for the purpose of driving by the scene of such vehicle to initiate contact with the owner or operator of the vehicle to solicit or offer towing services and prohibits tow truck drivers from driving by the scene of a wrecked or disabled vehicle for the same purposes.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1746
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires planning district commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1747
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Driver's licenses; persons having defective vision; minimum standards of visual acuity and field of vision. Allows a driver's license without daylight restrictions to be issued to any person with visual acuity between 20/40 and 20/70 in one or both eyes with or without corrective lenses and a field of 110 degrees of horizontal vision in one or both eyes if such person's application is accompanied by a certification by an ophthalmologist or optometrist that there is no other condition that would impair such person's operation of a motor vehicle during nighttime hours.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1748
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Solicitation of contributions; professional solicitors; definition of "solicitation"; terms of contracts. Expands the definition of "solicitation" with respect to requesting contributions to include requests made by email. The bill outlines specific terms to be included in any contract between a professional solicitor and a charitable or civic organization, including the requirement to specify the percentage of gross contributions that such organization will receive or the terms upon which a determination can be made as to the amount of the gross revenue from the solicitation campaign that such organization will receive. Solicitation of contributions; professional solicitors; definition of "solicitation"; terms of contracts. Expands the definition of "solicitation" with respect to requesting contributions to include requests made by email. The bill outlines specific terms to be included in any contract between a professional solicitor and a charitable or civic organization, including the requirement to specify the percentage of gross contributions that such organization will receive or the terms upon which a determination can be made as to the amount of the gross revenue from the solicitation campaign that such organization will receive.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1749
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Real property taxes; rate of increase procedure. Provides that a governing body of a locality may increase the real property tax rate (i) by an amount lower than three percent through a public hearing and a majority vote of the governing body; (ii) by an amount of three percent or more, but lower than five percent, through a public hearing and a two-thirds majority vote of the governing body; and (iii) by an amount of five percent or more through holding a referendum. The bill provides that the governing body of a locality may not hold a public hearing for a proposed rate increase on the same day as the annual budget hearing. Under current law, the governing body of a locality is required to limit the real property tax rate to a rate that would collect no more than 101 percent of the amount of real property taxes collected for the previous year, and increases above this rate may only be imposed if the locality holds a public hearing. Real property taxes; rate of increase procedure. Provides that a governing body of a locality may increase the real property tax rate (i) by an amount lower than three percent through a public hearing and a majority vote of the governing body; (ii) by an amount of three percent or more, but lower than five percent, through a public hearing and a two-thirds majority vote of the governing body; and (iii) by an amount of five percent or more through holding a referendum. The bill provides that the governing body of a locality may not hold a public hearing for a proposed rate increase on the same day as the annual budget hearing. Under current law, the governing body of a locality is required to limit the real property tax rate to a rate that would collect no more than 101 percent of the amount of real property taxes collected for the previous year, and increases above this rate may only be imposed if the locality holds a public hearing.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1750
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing marijuana licenses on January 1, 2024, but provides that no marijuana sales may occur prior to January 1, 2025. Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing marijuana licenses on January 1, 2024, but provides that no marijuana sales may occur prior to January 1, 2025.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1751
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; local governing bodies, school boards, and primaries for any office. Allows ranked choice voting to be used in any state-run primary election at the option of the political party for which the primary is being held and changes from discretionary to mandatory the provision that the State Board of Elections promulgate regulations for the proper and efficient administration of elections determined by ranked choice voting. The bill also allows elections of members of a local governing body or school board to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Current law only allows elections of members of a county board of supervisors or city council to be conducted by ranked choice voting.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1752
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Public utilities; fiber optic broadband lines crossing railroads. Provides that if a broadband service provider, in the construction of its works, deems it necessary to cross the works of a railroad company, the broadband service provider is required to submit an application to the railroad company. The bill requires the application to include (i) a license fee; (ii) engineering design plans, construction plans, bore plans, fraction mitigation plans, dewatering plans, rigging and lifting plans, and any other pertinent plans deemed necessary and prepared by a registered professional engineer; (iii) the location of the crossing, including whether it is located in a public right-of-way; (iv) the proposed date of commencement of work; (v) the anticipated duration of the work in the crossing; (vi) the areas in which the project personnel will work; and (vii) the contact information of the broadband service provider's point of contact. The bill requires a railroad company to acknowledge receipt of the application, to request any additional information within 15 days, and to approve the application within 35 days unless the railroad company petitions the State Corporation Commission. Public utilities; fiber optic broadband lines crossing railroads. Provides that if a broadband service provider, in the construction of its works, deems it necessary to cross the works of a railroad company, the broadband service provider is required to submit an application to the railroad company. The bill requires the application to include (i) a license fee; (ii) engineering design plans, construction plans, bore plans, fraction mitigation plans, dewatering plans, rigging and lifting plans, and any other pertinent plans deemed necessary and prepared by a registered professional engineer; (iii) the location of the crossing, including whether it is located in a public right-of-way; (iv) the proposed date of commencement of work; (v) the anticipated duration of the work in the crossing; (vi) the areas in which the project personnel will work; and (vii) the contact information of the broadband service provider's point of contact. The bill requires a railroad company to acknowledge receipt of the application, to request any additional information within 15 days, and to approve the application within 35 days unless the railroad company petitions the State Corporation Commission. The bill requires the broadband service provider to bear the cost of any such crossing, including a license fee of $2,000 for each crossing, except that for a crossing over an abandoned section of track the license fee shall not exceed $1,000 and for a crossing of a railroad company's works within a public right-of-way there is not a license fee. Under the bill, the Commonwealth shall grant a right-of-way to any broadband service provider seeking to use the right-of-way for broadband deployment to the extent that the Commonwealth owns any interest in any real property crossed by a railroad or manages any real property not owned by the Commonwealth that is crossed by a railroad. The bill requires the broadband service provider to maintain a general liability insurance policy or railroad protective liability insurance policy that meets certain requirements. The bill also requires a broadband service provider to reimburse the railroad company for direct expenses, not to exceed $5,000, in addition to the license fee. The bill provides that a railroad company may petition the State Corporation Commission within 35 days of receiving an application if it asserts (a) the license fee is not adequate compensation for the specified crossing, (b) the proposed crossing will cause undue hardship on the railroad company, or (c) the proposed crossing will create the imminent likelihood of danger to public health or safety. Under the bill, a broadband service provider may petition the Commission if a railroad company is not in compliance with the requirements of the bill. The bill requires the Commission to adjudicate any such petition within 90 days.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1753
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage carrier license; airport passenger lounge. Allows mixed beverage carrier licenses to be granted to financial institutions, subsidiaries of a financial institution, and certain persons under contract with a financial institution or subsidiary that are operating a passenger lounge located within an airport in the Commonwealth, which would authorize the licensee to sell and serve mixed beverages to ticketed air carrier passengers in designated areas of such passenger lounge. The bill contains an emergency clause.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1754
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Telemedicine; continuity of care. Allows for continuity of care through telemedicine when a practitioner with whom a patient has previously established a practitioner-patient relationship is unavailable at the time in which the patient seeks continuity of care. The bill allows another practitioner of the same subspecialty at the same practice group with access to the patient's treatment history to provide continuity of care using telemedicine services until the practitioner with whom the patient has a previously established practitioner-patient relationship becomes available.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1755
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Partition of property. Directs the court to consider certain factors when it orders a partition in kind, including (i) evidence of the collective duration of ownership or possession of any portion of the property by a party and one or more predecessors in title or predecessors in possession of the property who are or were related to the party; (ii) a party's sentimental attachment to any portion of the property, including any attachment arising because such portion of the property has ancestral or other unique or special value to the party; (iii) the lawful use being made of any portion of the property by a party and the degree to which the party would be harmed if the party could not continue the same use of such portion of the property; and (iv) the degree to which a party has contributed to the physical improvement, maintenance, or upkeep of any portion of the property. The bill also provides that counsel for a party to a partition action may serve as a commissioner unless there is an objection by another party; current law requires commissioners to be disinterested and impartial and not a party to or participant in the partition action. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1756
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Attorney-issued subpoenas; release of witness. Provides that, in a civil case only, a person to whom an attorney-issued subpoena is directed may be released from compliance with such subpoena by the attorney who issued the subpoena or a person acting on such attorney's behalf. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference. Attorney-issued subpoenas; release of witness. Provides that, in a civil case only, a person to whom an attorney-issued subpoena is directed may be released from compliance with such subpoena by the attorney who issued the subpoena or a person acting on such attorney's behalf. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1757
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Immunity of persons; tort actions; assertion of immunity; attorney fees and costs. Provides that a person shall be immune from tort liability if the tort claim is based solely on statements (i) regarding matters of public concern that would be protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States made by that person that are communicated to a third party; (ii) made at a public hearing before the governing body of any locality or other political subdivision, or the boards, commissions, agencies, and authorities thereof, and other governing bodies of any local governmental entity concerning matters properly before such body; or (iii) made by an employee against his employer and where retaliatory action against an employee by such employer is otherwise prohibited by law. The bill also provides that any person who prevails in such a legal action may be awarded reasonable attorney fees and costs.