Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1878
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions to application of chapter; local administrative investigations; disclosure. Clarifies that personal contact information, to include a home or business (i) address, (ii) email address, or (iii) telephone number or comparable number assigned to any other electronic communication device, when furnished in confidence to a local governing body with respect to complainants in local investigations, is exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill expands the applicability of the exemption to zoning enforcement complaints to all such complaints, not just individual enforcement complaints. The bill also provides that information in completed investigations shall be disclosed in a form that does not reveal the identity of the complainants or persons supplying information to investigators.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1879
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Managed care health insurance plan licensees; network adequacy for mental health care services. Requires each managed care health insurance plan licensee (licensee) to (i) provide a sufficient number and mix of services, specialists, and practice sites to meet covered persons' mental health care needs; (ii) ensure that covered persons have telephone access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to responsible and knowledgeable mental health care practitioners capable of assessing the covered persons' conditions and, as necessary, providing for appropriate services; and (iii) incorporate strategies into its access procedures to facilitate utilization of the licensee's mental health care services by covered persons with physical, mental, language, or cultural barriers. The bill requires a licensee to cover out-of-network mental health care services to a covered person if (a) the licensee does not have a mental health care provider within its network capable of providing mental health care services to the covered person; (b) the majority of the licensee's mental health care providers within 25 miles of a covered person or, if appropriate for the covered person, available via telemedicine who have experience treating the general age group of a covered person are no longer accepting new patients or have wait-lists to receive care; or (c) the licensee does not have a mental health care provider within 25 miles of a covered person or, if appropriate for the covered person, available via telemedicine who (1) has experience or expertise in treating patients who share the emotionally distressing experiences, defined in the bill, or demographics of the covered person seeking care and (2) is capable of providing care within the next 31 days. The bill provides that a licensee may require certain verification that the mental health care services are related to an emotionally distressing experience but is prohibited from requiring proof of a criminal proceeding The bill requires a licensee, for any covered person seeking mental health care services that has self-harm or suicidal ideation, to cover any associated out-of-network care such that the covered person shall not be responsible for any additional costs incurred by the licensee for such services, other than any applicable copayment, coinsurance, or deductible. The bill requires a licensee to accept verification from the associated out-of-network provider that the mental health care services provided were related to the covered person's self-harm or suicidal ideation and prohibits a licensee from imposing any additional requirements to verify that the covered person was seeking care related to self-harm or suicidal ideation. Managed care health insurance plan licensees; network adequacy for mental health care services. Requires each managed care health insurance plan licensee (licensee) to (i) provide a sufficient number and mix of services, specialists, and practice sites to meet covered persons' mental health care needs; (ii) ensure that covered persons have telephone access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to responsible and knowledgeable mental health care practitioners capable of assessing the covered persons' conditions and, as necessary, providing for appropriate services; and (iii) incorporate strategies into its access procedures to facilitate utilization of the licensee's mental health care services by covered persons with physical, mental, language, or cultural barriers. The bill requires a licensee to cover out-of-network mental health care services to a covered person if (a) the licensee does not have a mental health care provider within its network capable of providing mental health care services to the covered person; (b) the majority of the licensee's mental health care providers within 25 miles of a covered person or, if appropriate for the covered person, available via telemedicine who have experience treating the general age group of a covered person are no longer accepting new patients or have wait-lists to receive care; or (c) the licensee does not have a mental health care provider within 25 miles of a covered person or, if appropriate for the covered person, available via telemedicine who (1) has experience or expertise in treating patients who share the emotionally distressing experiences, defined in the bill, or demographics of the covered person seeking care and (2) is capable of providing care within the next 31 days. The bill provides that a licensee may require certain verification that the mental health care services are related to an emotionally distressing experience but is prohibited from requiring proof of a criminal proceeding The bill requires a licensee, for any covered person seeking mental health care services that has self-harm or suicidal ideation, to cover any associated out-of-network care such that the covered person shall not be responsible for any additional costs incurred by the licensee for such services, other than any applicable copayment, coinsurance, or deductible. The bill requires a licensee to accept verification from the associated out-of-network provider that the mental health care services provided were related to the covered person's self-harm or suicidal ideation and prohibits a licensee from imposing any additional requirements to verify that the covered person was seeking care related to self-harm or suicidal ideation.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1880
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Localities; record of legal settlement or judgment; disclosure. Requires localities to retain a public record of certain legal settlements and judgments and requires the record of such amount to be subject to disclosure if requested pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1881
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
Industrial hemp; monopolies; registration and renewal fees. Imposes limits on the powers of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by prohibiting the Commissioner from granting, suspending, or revoking any registration for growing, dealing in, or processing of industrial hemp or hemp products in a manner that allows for the creation of a monopoly or otherwise lessens competition in the industrial hemp or hemp product industries in the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that all citizens of the Commonwealth shall have equal access to apply to the Commissioner for any such registration and prohibits the Commissioner from setting the fee for such any registration or renewal thereof in excess of $250. Industrial hemp; monopolies; registration and renewal fees. Imposes limits on the powers of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by prohibiting the Commissioner from granting, suspending, or revoking any registration for growing, dealing in, or processing of industrial hemp or hemp products in a manner that allows for the creation of a monopoly or otherwise lessens competition in the industrial hemp or hemp product industries in the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that all citizens of the Commonwealth shall have equal access to apply to the Commissioner for any such registration and prohibits the Commissioner from setting the fee for such any registration or renewal thereof in excess of $250.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1882
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia National Guard member benefits; health savings accounts. Provides that a member of the Virginia National Guard may elect to receive, in lieu of any tuition assistance grants, a matching contribution from the state to a health savings account. The bill requires the Department of Military Affairs to establish a health savings account for any member who elects to receive this benefit, with a matching contribution equal to the member's contribution up to the maximum amount allowable by federal law. The bill provides that eligible members must (i) have a minimum remaining obligation of two years, (ii) have satisfactorily completed required initial active duty service, (iii) be satisfactorily performing duty in accordance with regulations of the National Guard, and (iv) be eligible for such an account under federal law. The bill also provides that if a member ceases to be eligible for a health savings account, by reason of being called to active duty military service or otherwise, all contributions from the state shall stop, and the Department of Military Affairs shall provide notice to the member of the loss of eligibility.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1883
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable permanent farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and to display the farm use placard on the vehicle at all times. Under current law, such requirement will become effective July 1, 2023. The bill reinstates the authority of law-enforcement officers to inquire about the address or real property parcel identification number of the farm or lands with which the exempt vehicle is associated. The bill prohibits any person from displaying a farm use tag, plate, or placard or otherwise claiming a farm use exemption to which he is not entitled while operating an unregistered vehicle on a highway and provides penalties of $100 for a first violation, $200 for a second violation, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to identify issues and develop recommendations for improvements regarding farm use vehicle exemptions from vehicle registration and the use and display of farm use vehicle tags. Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable permanent farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and to display the farm use placard on the vehicle at all times. Under current law, such requirement will become effective July 1, 2023. The bill reinstates the authority of law-enforcement officers to inquire about the address or real property parcel identification number of the farm or lands with which the exempt vehicle is associated. The bill prohibits any person from displaying a farm use tag, plate, or placard or otherwise claiming a farm use exemption to which he is not entitled while operating an unregistered vehicle on a highway and provides penalties of $100 for a first violation, $200 for a second violation, and $500 for a third or subsequent violation. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to identify issues and develop recommendations for improvements regarding farm use vehicle exemptions from vehicle registration and the use and display of farm use vehicle tags.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1884
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Standards of Learning assessment revision work group; consideration of effectiveness of assessments for students with disabilities. Requires the work group established by the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to study and develop a plan relating to revisions to Standards of Learning assessments to consider the effectiveness of assessments for students with disabilities, including the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program for those students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, and the use of those assessments to improve and individualize instruction. Standards of Learning assessment revision work group; consideration of effectiveness of assessments for students with disabilities. Requires the work group established by the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to study and develop a plan relating to revisions to Standards of Learning assessments to consider the effectiveness of assessments for students with disabilities, including the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program for those students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, and the use of those assessments to improve and individualize instruction.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1885
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person who conspires or acts in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more retail mercantile establishments, with a value exceeding $5,000 aggregated over a 90-day period, with the intent to sell such retail property for monetary or other gain, and who takes or causes such retail property to be placed in the control of a retail property fence or other person and either (i) receives or possesses any retail property that has been obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments while knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe the property was unlawfully obtained or (ii) conspires or acts in concert with two or more other persons as an organizer, supervisor, financier, leader, or manager to engage for profit in a scheme or course of conduct to effectuate the transfer or sale of property obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments. The bill defines the terms retail mercantile establishment, retail property, and retail property fence. The bill also establishes the Organized Retail Crime Fund to be administered by the Attorney General solely for the purposes of awarding grants to attorneys for the Commonwealth and law-enforcement agencies to investigate, indict, and prosecute violations of organized retail theft and associated fraud and property crimes.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1886
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/17/23
Engrossed
1/20/23
Refer
1/24/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Insurance agents; definitions; private family leave insurance. Expands the definitions of "health agent" and "property and casualty insurance agent" to include that such agents may sell, solicit, or negotiate private family leave insurance. The bill also clarifies that private family leave insurance is not included in either limited lines life and health insurance or limited lines property and casualty insurance as they relate to the definitions of "limited lines life and health agent" and "limited lines property and casualty agent" respectively.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1887
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Failed
2/25/23
Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive community colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law. Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive community colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1888
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Real estate settlement agents; fees; informed consent. Requires the written consent of the seller's counsel before a settlement agent or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or subcontractors can collect any fees payable to such settlement agent or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or subcontractors from a represented seller. Real estate settlement agents; fees; informed consent. Requires the written consent of the seller's counsel before a settlement agent or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or subcontractors can collect any fees payable to such settlement agent or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or subcontractors from a represented seller.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1889
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Refer
1/25/23
Public institutions of higher education and certain other public educational institutions; certain immunization requirements prohibited. Prohibits any prospective or current full-time or part-time employee of a public institution of higher education or any of its centers or other subdivisions; the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority; Eastern Virginia Medical School; or any authority, center, or institute specified by the bill that enrolls or otherwise provides instruction to students from being required, as a condition of initial or continued employment, to be immunized against COVID-19. The bill also prohibits any prospective or current full-time or part-time student at any such institution, authority, center, institute, or school from being required, as a condition of initial or continued enrollment, to be immunized against COVID-19.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1890
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Public institutions of higher education; guaranteed admission for certain veterans; report. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to provide for the guaranteed admission of any eligible veteran applicant, defined in the bill as any applicant who (i) is a veteran member of the uniformed services, (ii) is permanently and totally disabled as a result of his active duty service in the uniformed services, and (iii) (a) graduated from a high school in the Commonwealth or (b) graduated from a high school in a state other than the Commonwealth and served in the uniformed services while assigned to a location in the Commonwealth. The bill also requires each public institution of higher education to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on or before December 31 of each year detailing certain information relating to veteran applicants and enrollees. Public institutions of higher education; guaranteed admission for certain veterans; report. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to provide for the guaranteed admission of any eligible veteran applicant, defined in the bill as any applicant who (i) is a veteran member of the uniformed services, (ii) is permanently and totally disabled as a result of his active duty service in the uniformed services, and (iii) (a) graduated from a high school in the Commonwealth or (b) graduated from a high school in a state other than the Commonwealth and served in the uniformed services while assigned to a location in the Commonwealth. The bill also requires each public institution of higher education to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on or before December 31 of each year detailing certain information relating to veteran applicants and enrollees.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1891
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
Transcranial magnetic stimulation; pilot program. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a pilot program to make electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation available for veterans, first responders, and law-enforcement officers. The bill requires the State Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish regulations for the pilot program.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1892
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Abduction of a minor; penalty. Makes the abduction of a minor a Class 2 felony, unless such abduction is committed by the parent or a family or household member who has been ordered custody or visitation of the person abducted, for which there is a prescribed punishment. Under current law, abduction of any person is punishable as a Class 5 felony if there is no other prescribed punishment. The bill also makes an abduction committed by a family or household member who has been ordered custody or visitation of the person abducted punishable the same as an abduction committed by the parent of the person abducted. Abduction of a minor; penalty. Makes the abduction of a minor a Class 2 felony, unless such abduction is committed by the parent or a family or household member who has been ordered custody or visitation of the person abducted, for which there is a prescribed punishment. Under current law, abduction of any person is punishable as a Class 5 felony if there is no other prescribed punishment. The bill also makes an abduction committed by a family or household member who has been ordered custody or visitation of the person abducted punishable the same as an abduction committed by the parent of the person abducted.