Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1863
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Taxation in the Commonwealth. Makes numerous changes to Taxation in the Commonwealth. Makes numerous changes to the Commonwealth's tax structure with the intention of eliminating the personal income tax. The bill provides that beginning January 1, 2025, all income tax rates shall be reduced by 1.15 percent each year that a tax reduction condition, defined in the bill, is met. Under the bill, tax rate reductions shall occur each year and shall be cumulative until reaching zero. The tax reduction condition would be met and the tax rate reduction would occur in any fiscal year that the amount of general fund revenues collected plus the amount of additional general fund revenues, defined in the bill, is greater than or equal to the amount of general fund appropriations made for such fiscal year plus the amount of revenue reduction that would result from a 1.15 percent reduction in the individual income tax rate. Additional general fund revenues are defined in the bill as general fund revenues that would be generated as a result of the tax policy changes resulting from the bill. The bill would increase the sales and use tax rate to 5.3 percent beginning July 1, 2024, and would increase this rate by one percent each year until reaching 9.3 percent beginning July 1, 2028. The bill would increase the tax on cigarettes by three cents per cigarette and would double the statutory tax rate on tobacco products, with the revenues from such taxes to be deposited in the general fund. The motor vehicle sales and use tax rate would be increased by one percent beginning July 1, 2024, and would increase by one percent each year until reaching an additional five percent over current rates beginning July 1, 2028. The motor fuels tax would also be increased by five cents per gallon beginning July 1, 2024, with additional five cents per gallon increases until reaching an additional 25 cents per gallon beginning July 1, 2028. The bill requires all additional revenue generated by such tax increases to be deposited in the general fund. Finally, the bill directs the Secretary of Finance to convene a workgroup to recommend additional tax policy changes that would be needed to eliminate personal income tax liability.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1864
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Vaccine requirements for state agency employees; exemption. Creates an exemption to vaccine requirements implemented by state agencies for any state agency employees who are philosophically opposed to receiving such vaccination.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1865
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Provision of abortion; abortion based on a disability or the sex or ethnicity of the unborn child prohibited; penalty. Provides that, except in a medical emergency, a person shall not perform, induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion unless the physician or nurse practitioner who is to perform or induce the abortion has first confirmed that the abortion is not being sought on the basis of a disability or the sex or ethnicity of the unborn child and has documented these facts in the maternal patient's chart, as well as in a report to be filed with the State Health Commissioner within 15 days of the abortion. The bill further provides that any person performing such a prohibited abortion has committed an act of unprofessional conduct, that his license to practice medicine or as a nurse practitioner in the Commonwealth shall be suspended or revoked pursuant to the rules of unprofessional conduct, and that he is subject to a civil penalty.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1866
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
Engrossed
2/14/23
Failed
2/25/23
Alcoholic beverage control; suspension or revocation of certain retail licenses; reinstatement. Provides that if the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority suspends or revokes the license of a retail establishment due solely to the fact that the establishment's food establishment permit from the Department of Health was revoked or suspended, the Board shall automatically reinstate such license once the Department of Health has reinstated the food establishment permit, provided that the licensee is in compliance with all applicable provisions of law. Alcoholic beverage control; suspension or revocation of certain retail licenses; reinstatement. Provides that if the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority suspends or revokes the license of a retail establishment due solely to the fact that the establishment's food establishment permit from the Department of Health was revoked or suspended, the Board shall automatically reinstate such license once the Department of Health has reinstated the food establishment permit, provided that the licensee is in compliance with all applicable provisions of law.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1867
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Retirement System; prior service or membership credit. Allows a member of the Virginia Retirement System who is a teacher to receive at no cost up to four years of service credit for prior active duty military service in the armed forces of the United States.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1868
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Special license plates; military service; unremarried surviving spouses. Authorizes unremarried surviving spouses of persons eligible to receive a special license plate for military service to also receive such special license plates. The law currently authorizes this for certain types of military service.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1869
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Bills creating certain boards and commissions; required sunset provision. Requires all bills creating a board, council, commission, or other collegial body in the legislative branch to contain a provision for the expiration of such body three years after its creation. Currently, only bills creating such advisory boards, councils, commissions, and other collegial bodies in the executive branch are required to include such sunset provision. The bill directs the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Clerks of the House of Delegates and the Senate to submit to the Virginia Code Commission by October 1, 2023, a list of those boards, councils, commissions, or other collegial bodies in the executive or legislative branch that are not set to expire within three years and directs the Virginia Code Commission to submit legislation at the 2024 Regular Session that prescribes an expiration date that is no later than July 1, 2027, for such bodies. Bills creating certain boards and commissions; required sunset provision. Requires all bills creating a board, council, commission, or other collegial body in the legislative branch to contain a provision for the expiration of such body three years after its creation. Currently, only bills creating such advisory boards, councils, commissions, and other collegial bodies in the executive branch are required to include such sunset provision. The bill directs the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Clerks of the House of Delegates and the Senate to submit to the Virginia Code Commission by October 1, 2023, a list of those boards, councils, commissions, or other collegial bodies in the executive or legislative branch that are not set to expire within three years and directs the Virginia Code Commission to submit legislation at the 2024 Regular Session that prescribes an expiration date that is no later than July 1, 2027, for such bodies.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1870
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Institutions of higher education; immunity from disciplinary action in certain cases involving a good faith report of an act of sexual violence. Removes the exemption of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors from the requirement to include in its policy, code, rules, or set of standards governing sexual violence a provision for immunity from disciplinary action for certain individuals who make good faith reports of acts of sexual violence but permits Virginia Military Institute to include a provision stipulating that in the event that a cadet discloses personal consumption of drugs or alcohol in conjunction with a good faith report of an act of sexual violence and the superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute determines that such cadet's personal consumption of drugs or alcohol constitutes a threat to the cadet's well-being or the well-being of others, the superintendent may require such cadet to attend drug or substance use disorder counseling. The bill also requires the governing board of each public and nonprofit private institution of higher education to extend such provision of disciplinary immunity to disclosures of curfew violation where such disclosure is made in conjunction with a good faith report of an act of sexual violence. Under current law, such boards are only required to include a provision for disciplinary immunity from disclosures of personal consumption of drugs or alcohol made in conjunction with a good faith report of an act of sexual violence. Institutions of higher education; immunity from disciplinary action in certain cases involving a good faith report of an act of sexual violence. Removes the exemption of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors from the requirement to include in its policy, code, rules, or set of standards governing sexual violence a provision for immunity from disciplinary action for certain individuals who make good faith reports of acts of sexual violence but permits Virginia Military Institute to include a provision stipulating that in the event that a cadet discloses personal consumption of drugs or alcohol in conjunction with a good faith report of an act of sexual violence and the superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute determines that such cadet's personal consumption of drugs or alcohol constitutes a threat to the cadet's well-being or the well-being of others, the superintendent may require such cadet to attend drug or substance use disorder counseling. The bill also requires the governing board of each public and nonprofit private institution of higher education to extend such provision of disciplinary immunity to disclosures of curfew violation where such disclosure is made in conjunction with a good faith report of an act of sexual violence. Under current law, such boards are only required to include a provision for disciplinary immunity from disclosures of personal consumption of drugs or alcohol made in conjunction with a good faith report of an act of sexual violence.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1871
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Concealed handgun permit; period of validity. Extends from five years to 10 years the period during which a concealed handgun permit remains valid. The bill also provides that if a valid concealed handgun permit holder presents a written notice of a change in identifying information on a form provided by the Department of State Police to the clerk of the court who issued such permit, then such clerk shall issue a replacement permit specifying the permit holder's new information. Concealed handgun permit; period of validity. Extends from five years to 10 years the period during which a concealed handgun permit remains valid. The bill also provides that if a valid concealed handgun permit holder presents a written notice of a change in identifying information on a form provided by the Department of State Police to the clerk of the court who issued such permit, then such clerk shall issue a replacement permit specifying the permit holder's new information.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1872
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Board of Counseling; licensure of professional counselors without examination. Allows the Board of Counseling to issue a license to practice as a professional counselor without examination to an applicant seeking initial licensure or renewal of such license and who satisfies all other education, experience, and fitness to practice requirements set forth in regulation and who is qualified to practice professional counseling.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1873
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practitioner for the treatment or to eliminate the symptoms of the employee's diagnosed condition or disease, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use must conform to the laws of the Commonwealth and by excluding the employees of the Commonwealth and other public bodies from such protections.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1874
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to appear in person. The bill also codifies the Department of Health's authority to implement a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC program), which is currently authorized by regulation, and prohibits the Department of Health from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in the WIC program to appear in person.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1875
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Public utilities; delay of termination of service for certain residential customers; serious medical Public utilities; delay of termination of service for certain residential customers; serious medical condition; report. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation exemptions to termination of service by a public utility that provides electric, gas, or water and wastewater services for certain residential customers. The bill requires such regulations to require a public utility to delay termination of service for any residential customer (i) who has not filed a serious medical condition form with the public utility, for 15 calendar days upon oral or written notification from the residential customer that such customer or a family member residing with the customer has a serious medical condition; for such customer, the utility shall delay disconnection for at least 60 calendar days upon receiving a serious medical condition form during the 15-day period; (ii) who has filed a serious medical condition form with the public utility, for at least 60 days beyond the expiration of any required termination notice; or (iii) or who certifies to the utility that the customer's household includes primary residents who are not younger than 65 years of age, not older than 12 months of age, or have a disability, for a minimum of 60 calendar days beyond the expiration of any required termination notice. The bill requires that for any residential customer who is experiencing financial hardship and whose serious medical condition will last beyond the 60-calendar-delay period described in clause (ii), the utility shall work to establish a payment plan and make all due effort to avoid service termination; The bill requires such regulations to permit a residential customer to delay termination of service up to three times within a 12-month period. Each public utility subject to the provisions of the bill shall report monthly by the fifteenth day of each month information related to the filing of serious medical condition forms, exemptions from disconnections granted under the provisions of the bill, and payment plans entered into with residential customers.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1876
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Firefighter's Fertility Protection Act; local government employees; health insurance program; fertility services. Requires that a health insurance plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management for employees of local governments, local officers, teachers, and retirees, and the dependents of such employees, officers, teachers, and retirees, shall include coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and for standard fertility preservation procedures, defined in the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1877
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to an election. Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to an election.