Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1803
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires the opportunities for parental involvement required to be provided by each school board to include the opportunity for parents of students enrolled in the local school division to receive advance written or electronic notification of and opt their child out of any speech, presentation, or performance in the relevant school by any outside individual or entity. Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires the opportunities for parental involvement required to be provided by each school board to include the opportunity for parents of students enrolled in the local school division to receive advance written or electronic notification of and opt their child out of any speech, presentation, or performance in the relevant school by any outside individual or entity.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1804
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands, which shall be the preferred form of compensation. The provisions of the bill apply only to tidal wetland mitigation banks with a polyhaline salinity regime located in certain subbasins when a tidal wetland mitigation bank with the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands is not available in the same river watershed as the impacted wetland. Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands, which shall be the preferred form of compensation. The provisions of the bill apply only to tidal wetland mitigation banks with a polyhaline salinity regime located in certain subbasins when a tidal wetland mitigation bank with the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands is not available in the same river watershed as the impacted wetland.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1805
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Resources Authority; purpose; community development and housing projects. Adds community development projects related to the production and preservation of housing, including housing for persons and families of low and moderate income, to those projects that the Virginia Resources Authority may finance. The bill directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist the Authority with determining which local governments are to receive grants from the Authority for such projects.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1806
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Farm use placards. Delays from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, the date by which vehicles claiming a farm use exemption are required to obtain a farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and display such placard at all times. The bill provides that the requirement to display a farm use placard only applies to pickup or panel trucks and sport utility vehicles. The bill removes certain requirements on the application for a farm use placard, prohibits requesting additional information on such application, and prohibits disclosure of application information. The bill authorizes the use of an agricultural or horticultural vehicle for disposing of incidental refuse and a seasonal transportation vehicle for driving to a storage house, packing plant, or market regardless of distance. The bill clarifies that the exemption for transporting back to a farm essential food includes procuring a meal for a farmer or his employees and that such exemption applies while engaged in authorized farm vehicle uses. The bill exempts vehicles required to obtain a farm use placard from the motor vehicle sales and use tax and authorizes localities to exempt such vehicles from personal property tax.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1807
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
State agency compliance with flood plain management regulations. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation, no later than September 30, 2023, and in cooperation with numerous Secretariats and the Special Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Adaptation and Protection, to establish standards for development in a flood plain for all state agencies and departments. Such standards shall require at least compliance with the National Flood Insurance Program and shall require that any development undertaken by an agency or department on state-owned land located in a Special Flood Hazard Area be protected or flood-proofed against flooding and flood damage. The bill also requires any state agency or department, when developing a facility on state-owned property located in a flood plain, to either adhere to all local flood plain management regulations or receive Department approval of compliance with the applicable state standard for development in a flood plain, provided that such standard does not jeopardize a locality's participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. Such compliance shall be documented and provided in the form of a permit by the Department to the applicant prior to preliminary design approval of a project by the Department of General Services. The bill allows the Department of Conservation and Recreation to issue a permit if no feasible alternative to developing a facility in the flood plain exists and if one of several other conditions provided in the bill is met.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1808
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority; emergency. Overrides a provision in the appropriation act that required a certain approval from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prior to disbursement of funds to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority. The bill contains an emergency clause.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1809
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Newborn screening; Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage disorders. Requires that newborn screening tests required to be performed on every infant born in the Commonwealth must include screening for Krabbe disease and other lysosomal storage disorders for which a screening test is available.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1810
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/7/23
Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects local government employees from being penalized by their employer for expressing their opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or other action or purpose of a public body at an open meeting of such public body during the time designated for public comment when such employees are speaking on their own behalf as members of the public. The bill exempts from such protection expressions made by state government employees during a public meeting of a committee or subcommittee of the General Assembly or State Corporation Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1811
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Hunting deer; establish continuous open season. Establishes a continuous open season for hunting deer with any weapon permitted by law. In current law, the Board of Wildlife Resources adopts regulations that prescribe regular open and closed seasons for hunting deer. The bill retains the power granted to the Board to close or shorten a season for hunting (i) whenever extreme weather threatens the welfare of wild birds, wild animals, or fish; (ii) whenever such wild birds, wild animals, or fish have been seriously affected by adverse weather conditions; (iii) when investigation of the Board shows that there is an unusual scarcity of any species; or (iv) when there is substantial demand from any county or city.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1812
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Elections; foreign interference in elections; registration, Elections; foreign interference in elections; registration, absentee voting, and conduct of election; penalty. Requires the Attorney General to provide assessments and reports on foreign interference, defined in the bill, in elections in the Commonwealth to the Governor and the General Assembly and to levy or recommend appropriate sanctions against any such foreign governments found to be interfering in elections in the Commonwealth. The bill also repeals the provision that allows persons 16 years of age or older to preregister to vote, removes the ability to register to vote using the websites of the Department of Elections or the Department of Motor Vehicles, and moves the deadline for registering to vote from 21 days prior to an election to 30 days prior to an election. In addition, the bill directs the Department of Elections to conduct list maintenance activities during the 30 days prior to any election in which a candidate for federal office is not on the ballot, including the removal of duplicate registrations, requires voters to provide an excuse in order to vote absentee, removes the option to vote absentee in person, reinstates provisions requiring the presentation of a valid form of photo identification in order to vote, and directs general registrars to provide a paper copy of the pollbook at each polling place during all elections. Finally, the bill eliminates curbside voting and same-day voter registration, prohibits the use of any voting system that can be connected to the Internet and directs the State Board of Elections to decertify any such voting system, and increases from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 felony the penalty for voter registration fraud.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1813
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Fireworks; sale, use, and taxation. Exempts consumer, display, and permissible fireworks, defined in the bill and relevant law, from the definition of "device" as it pertains to criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, transportation, distribution, or use of explosive devices. The bill provides that the Statewide Fire Prevention Code does not apply (i) to the sale of permissible or consumer fireworks; (ii) to any person using, igniting, or exploding permissible or consumer fireworks on residential or agricultural property with the consent of the owner of such property; or (iii) when such permissible or consumer fireworks are being transported from a locality where they were legally obtained to a locality where they are legally permitted. The bill imposes a 12 percent retail sales and use tax on the sale or use of consumer, display, or permissible fireworks, the revenues from which shall be deposited in the Law Enforcement Support Fund, created by the bill. The bill contains technical amendments. Fireworks; sale, use, and taxation. Exempts consumer, display, and permissible fireworks, defined in the bill and relevant law, from the definition of "device" as it pertains to criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, transportation, distribution, or use of explosive devices. The bill provides that the Statewide Fire Prevention Code does not apply (i) to the sale of permissible or consumer fireworks; (ii) to any person using, igniting, or exploding permissible or consumer fireworks on residential or agricultural property with the consent of the owner of such property; or (iii) when such permissible or consumer fireworks are being transported from a locality where they were legally obtained to a locality where they are legally permitted. The bill imposes a 12 percent retail sales and use tax on the sale or use of consumer, display, or permissible fireworks, the revenues from which shall be deposited in the Law Enforcement Support Fund, created by the bill. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1814
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Prescription Monitoring Program; exemptions; licensed narcotic maintenance treatment programs. Removes dispensing of covered substances within a licensed narcotic maintenance treatment program from the list of circumstances exempt from reporting requirements of the Prescription Monitoring Program. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1815
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Health insurance; coverage for breast examinations. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations, as those terms are defined in the bill. The bill provides that such examinations include examinations using diagnostic mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging, or breast ultrasound. The bill prohibits such examinations from being subject to cost-sharing requirements, including annual deductibles, coinsurance, copayments, or similar out-of-pocket expenses, or any maximum limitation on the application of such a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or similar out-of-pocket expense.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1816
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suitably observed in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth as a day honoring the approximately 100 million individuals who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world and to be suitably observed by a public exercise in the Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor may designate in such proclamation. The bill also requires the Board of Education to include in the history and social science Standards of Learning and each school board to emphasize in its Standards-aligned program of instruction the study of the dangers of communism.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1817
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Disposition of unclaimed bodies; how disposition expenses paid; seizure of assets. Permits seizure of a decedent's nonprobate assets to cover the costs of disposition of such decedent's unclaimed body. Currently, seizure is limited to estate assets out of which disposition costs may be paid.