Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1833
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
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; over-the-counter and prescription hearing aids. Clarifies that licensure by the Board for Hearing Aid Specialists and Opticians is not required for a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other like organization engaged in the business of selling prescription hearing aids, defined in the bill as a hearing aid that is not an over-the-counter hearing aid, provided that it employs only licensed practitioners in the direct sale and fitting of prescription hearing aids.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1834
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
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Land preservation tax credits. Provides that for conveyances made on or after January 1, 2017, the deadlines for filing a complete application for land preservation tax credit shall be extended for any number of days exceeding 90 during which the application is being reviewed for verification of conservation value by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, provided that the application is otherwise complete.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1835
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
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Threats made against health care providers; penalty. Removes the location element that specifies a health care provider must be in a hospital or in an emergency room on the premises of a clinic or other facility rendering emergency medical care from the crime of making an oral threat to kill or to do bodily injury to a health care provider. Threats made against health care providers; penalty. Removes the location element that specifies a health care provider must be in a hospital or in an emergency room on the premises of a clinic or other facility rendering emergency medical care from the crime of making an oral threat to kill or to do bodily injury to a health care provider.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1836
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Engrossed
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Writs of eviction; returns to issuing clerk; report. Requires the sheriff executing a writ of eviction to return such executed writ to the clerk of court who issued such writ. The bill further directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to report annually to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology, the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the House Committee on General Laws, and the Virginia Housing Commission on the number of executed writs returned during the preceding fiscal year and directs the Virginia Housing Commission to direct an existing stakeholder work group to study for a period of one year a more comprehensive data collection process to track the resolution of writs of unlawful detainers filed in the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1837
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Common interest community associations; prohibition on use of nominating committees. Prohibits property owners' associations and unit owners' associations pursuant to the Property Owners' Association Act and the Virginia Condominium Act, as the case may be, from utilizing a nominating committee or similar entity for the purpose of soliciting, nominating, selecting, or appointing a member or unit owner or rejecting an otherwise qualified member or unit owner for a position on a property owners' association's board of directors or unit owners' association's executive board.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1838
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Child Pornography Registry; required information. Requires the Child Pornography Registry to include hash values or other applicable identification method of all known or suspected child pornography obtained during the course of a criminal investigation or presented as evidence and used in any conviction. Under current law, the Registry is required to include copies of such content.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1839
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
South Central Wastewater Authority; watershed general permit for nutrients. Directs the South Central Wastewater Authority (SCWWA) to submit a phased construction program to the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) by August 1, 2023, which the Department shall approve by September 1, 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Such phased upgrade construction program for the SCWWA shall be completed as soon as possible on a schedule approved by the Department but no later than January 1, 2030. The bill requires the SCWWA to begin the initial phase of construction by December 31, 2023, or within 150 days of approval by the Department of the phased construction program, whichever is later. The bill requires the SCWWA to comply with certain requirements regarding its progress toward completing the phased construction program. The bill also directs the Department to amend certain water quality improvement agreements and the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the SCWWA wastewater treatment facility to conform to the provisions of the bill.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1840
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Eastern Virginia Medical School; establishment of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University. Repeals provisions establishing and relating to Eastern Virginia Medical School and designates the schools and divisions previously existing as Eastern Virginia Medical School and such other academic units of Old Dominion University related to the health sciences as may be identified by the Old Dominion University Board of Visitors as the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University (the Health Sciences Center). The bill permits Old Dominion University to provide medical and health sciences education and related research through the teaching hospitals and related health care and health maintenance facilities at the Health Sciences Center and contains provisions relating to the operations of the Health Sciences Center, including provisions relating to cooperative arrangements and joint ventures.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1841
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Failed
2/25/23
Revenue Stabilization Fund and Revenue Reserve Fund; required deposits. Eliminates the requirement that certain revenues be deposited in the Revenue Stabilization Fund that are in excess of the deposits required by the Constitution of Virginia and adds a new requirement that additional deposits be made to the Revenue Reserve Fund if general fund revenues exceed certain amounts in a fiscal year. Revenue Stabilization Fund and Revenue Reserve Fund; required deposits. Eliminates the requirement that certain revenues be deposited in the Revenue Stabilization Fund that are in excess of the deposits required by the Constitution of Virginia and adds a new requirement that additional deposits be made to the Revenue Reserve Fund if general fund revenues exceed certain amounts in a fiscal year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1842
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Economic development; Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Fund and Program. Creates the Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Program for the purposes of (i) acquiring sites for the purpose of creating and maintaining a portfolio of project-ready sites to promote economic development in the Commonwealth, (ii) developing such sites to increase their marketability, and (iii) entering into development agreements with private employers for large-scale economic development projects. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority shall administer the Program, in consultation with the Department of General Services. Economic development; Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Fund and Program. Creates the Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Program for the purposes of (i) acquiring sites for the purpose of creating and maintaining a portfolio of project-ready sites to promote economic development in the Commonwealth, (ii) developing such sites to increase their marketability, and (iii) entering into development agreements with private employers for large-scale economic development projects. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority shall administer the Program, in consultation with the Department of General Services. The bill requires Program activities to be reviewed by the MEI Project Approval Commission (the Commission), who shall review proposals for site acquisitions, site development activities, and development agreements with private employers and determine whether the proposals are consistent with the objective of the Program. If the Commission issues a negative finding, it shall communicate such finding to the Governor and to the General Assembly, and the Authority shall not implement the proposal unless the proposal, either in its original or revised form, is authorized by the General Assembly at its next session and enacted into law.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1843
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Capital outlay plan. Updates the six-year capital outlay plan for projects to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1844
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Virginia Public Records Act; confidentiality of certain archived records. Provides that medical and educational records made confidential by law shall remain so after being archived by The Library of Virginia.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1845
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; children and elderly tenants; local department of social services. Provides that a landlord, when serving written notice on a tenant of his intention to terminate a rental agreement for noncompliance by the tenant with such rental agreement, shall notify the tenant of the option to contact the local department of social services if an authorized occupant is (i) a dependent child younger than 18 years of age, with certain exceptions enumerated in the bill, or (ii) a mentally or physically incapacitated elderly person. The bill provides that where a landlord has received a favorable court order, such landlord shall be responsible for notifying the local department of social services.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1846
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements; advertising. Amends and adds numerous provisions regarding the Commonwealth's medical marijuana program, including provisions related to recordkeeping, product registration, allowable deviations, dispensing, packaging, labeling, and advertising. The bill requires pharmaceutical processors and cannabis dispensing facilities to collect and provide to the Board of Pharmacy by July 1, 2024, data regarding implementation of the bill. The bill also requires the Board of Pharmacy to make certain amendments to its regulations.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1847
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election. Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election. Restores the local option to hold May elections; repeals laws permitting registration on election day and requiring preregistration of certain persons under 18 years of age; eliminates the permanent absentee voter list; removes provisions allowing general registrars to contract with a third party for the printing, assembly, and mailing of absentee ballot packets; requires an excuse to vote absentee; reduces absentee voting in person to the 10 days prior to the date of an election; requires that mailed absentee ballots be returned by the United States Postal Service; repeals provisions allowing for absentee ballot drop boxes; requires absentee ballots to be received by the general registrar by the close of polls on election day in order to be counted; requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote; 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 that he is the named registered voter he claims to be; and requires that provisional ballot envelopes have written on them certain required information in order to be considered, including the signature of the officer of election administering the provisional ballot and his indication of whether photo identification was shown, and if so, the type. The bill also amends provisions regarding risk-limiting audits to allow for (i) risk-limiting audits of the part of a district that covers multiple localities that lies in a single locality and (ii) the use of the batch comparison method when conducting a risk-limiting audit.