Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1923
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Admission of minors to mental health facility for inpatient treatment. Increases from 14 years of age to 16 years of age the minimum age requiring the consent of a minor prior to his admission to a mental health facility for inpatient treatment upon the joint application of such minor and the consent of such minor's parent. The bill also increases from younger than 14 years of age to younger than 16 years of age the maximum age for admission of a minor to a mental health facility for inpatient treatment upon application and with the consent of such minor's parent. The bill also increases from 14 years of age to 16 years of age the minimum age for a minor who objects to his admission to a mental health facility or is incapable of making an informed decision to be admitted to such mental health facility for up to 120 hours upon the application of such minor's parent. The bill also adds addiction as a reason for a minor to be admitted to a mental health facility for inpatient treatment.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1924
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
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Minimum wage; employees with disabilities. Provides that individuals with disabilities that are paid at subminimum wage pursuant to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and currently excluded from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act shall be excluded from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act only if those individuals are paid subminimum wage prior to July 1, 2023 by an employer that was authorized to pay a subminimum wage prior to July 1, 2023. This exclusion is in effect until July 1, 2030 when the exclusion is eliminated entirely. The bill also requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to (i) prioritize efforts to support individuals with disabilities who desire to transition from subminimum wage employment to competitive integrated employment and (ii) submit a report by May 1, 2024 to the Governor and the General Assembly on the number of individuals with disabilities employed in subminimum wage employment and the movement of individuals from subminimum wage employment to competitive integrated employment.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1925
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Board of Medicine; licensure of anesthesiologist assistants. Establishes criteria for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants and directs the Board of Medicine to adopt regulations governing the practice of anesthesiologist assistants. The bill provides that no person shall use or assume the title "anesthesiologist assistant" or hold himself out as an anesthesiologist assistant unless such person holds a license as an anesthesiologist assistant issued by the Board.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1926
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Tuition Assistance Grant Program; eligible institutions; proprietary private institutions of higher education. Declares eligible for participation in the Tuition Assistance Grant Program proprietary private institutions of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional training or education and not to provide religious training or theological education and that meet certain other criteria, including maintaining a principal place of business in the Commonwealth and maintaining accreditation. Under current law, eligibility is limited to nonprofit private institutions of higher education whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional training or education and not to provide religious training or theological education and that meet certain other criteria, including maintaining a principal place of business in the Commonwealth and maintaining accreditation.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1927
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Filing of tax returns or payment of taxes by mail. Provides that a remittance of a tax return or a tax payment shall be deemed to have been timely received if, through no fault of the taxpayer, no postmark is affixed or the postmark affixed by the United States Postal Service is illegible or bears no date and such tax return or payment is received within five days of the due date. The bill also provides that no penalty or interest shall be imposed (i) if a taxpayer provides evidence that a tax return filing or a tax payment was timely by producing a United States Postal Service Certificate of Mailing, or other proof of mailing, showing such return was filed or such payment was made on time or (ii) if a taxpayer's failure to file a return or to pay a tax to a locality was the fault of the United States Postal Service. Filing of tax returns or payment of taxes by mail. Provides that a remittance of a tax return or a tax payment shall be deemed to have been timely received if, through no fault of the taxpayer, no postmark is affixed or the postmark affixed by the United States Postal Service is illegible or bears no date and such tax return or payment is received within five days of the due date. The bill also provides that no penalty or interest shall be imposed (i) if a taxpayer provides evidence that a tax return filing or a tax payment was timely by producing a United States Postal Service Certificate of Mailing, or other proof of mailing, showing such return was filed or such payment was made on time or (ii) if a taxpayer's failure to file a return or to pay a tax to a locality was the fault of the United States Postal Service.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1928
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
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
School bus operators; training; remote online School bus operators; training; remote online and Spanish language options. Permits the training program developed by the Board of Education for school bus operators to offer the option for an applicant for employment as a school bus operator to (i) except as otherwise provided in relevant law, complete all or any portion of the required hours of classroom training in a remote online format, as determined by the local school division, and (ii) receive instruction in the Spanish language for all or any portion of the required hours of classroom training, as determined by the local school division.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1929
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
2/23/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Educational opportunities for certain children established. Establishes certain rights and privileges for any school-age child who is a dependent of a foreign service employee or civilian member of the Armed Forces of the United States under federal orders when the parent produces documentation indicating that he is required to move in order to perform his job responsibilities and such move results in the student's relocation from another state to a school division in the Commonwealth, including rights and privileges relating to educational records, enrollment, placement, attendance, extracurricular activities, and graduation. Educational opportunities for certain children established. Establishes certain rights and privileges for any school-age child who is a dependent of a foreign service employee or civilian member of the Armed Forces of the United States under federal orders when the parent produces documentation indicating that he is required to move in order to perform his job responsibilities and such move results in the student's relocation from another state to a school division in the Commonwealth, including rights and privileges relating to educational records, enrollment, placement, attendance, extracurricular activities, and graduation.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1930
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
Engrossed
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Virginia Self-Service Storage Act; default by occupant; watercraft. Allows the owner of a self-storage facility, in the case of a stored watercraft for which an occupant has been in default for more than 60 days, to have such watercraft towed in lieu of conducting a public sale of such watercraft.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1931
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
Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any civilly committed sexually violent predator who tampers with or in any way attempts to circumvent the operation of his GPS equipment while on conditional release.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1932
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
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Yielding or reducing speed for stationary vehicles; vehicles displaying hazard lights, caution signs, or road flares. Requires drivers to make a lane change or reduce speed when passing stationary vehicles that have activated the vehicular hazard warning signal flashers, displayed caution signs, or been marked with properly lit flares or torches on certain highways when safe and reasonable to do so and makes a violation of this requirement a traffic infraction.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1933
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
High school equivalency and employment tax credit. Creates a tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 in the amount of $1,000 per year for eligible taxpayers who have successfully earned a high school equivalency certificate. The bill specifies that the eligible taxpayer shall, within one year of earning such certificate, be employed full time within the Commonwealth in order to claim the credit and that the credit may be claimed for up to three years following the taxpayer's eligibility, provided that such taxpayer remains employed full time within the Commonwealth. The bill provides that such credit will be limited to 250 eligible individuals per fiscal year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1934
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Administrative Process Act; certain regulations to require legislative approval. Requires any agency that estimates that a proposed regulation will have an adverse impact on economic growth or increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within five years of its implementation to advise the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than 30 days prior to the next regular legislative session. The bill requires the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules to review such regulation and issue a statement containing the Commission's findings.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1935
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Election of members to State Corporation Commission; notice; applicant interviews. Requires the General Assembly if in session when a vacancy on the State Corporation Commission will occur or exist to elect a successor within 60 days of receiving notice of such vacancy. The bill requires the General Assembly if not in session when notice of such vacancy is given to elect a successor within 60 days of the commencement of the next regular session of the General Assembly. Additionally, the bill requires any notice of such vacancy to be posted on the official website of the Commission and provides that there shall be at least a 15-day period following the posting of such notice for any interested person to submit an application to the General Assembly. The bill prohibits the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor and House Committee on Commerce and Energy from interviewing candidates for such vacancy during the 15-day application period following such posting. Lastly, the bill provides that any interview conducted for such vacancy by more than one member of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor or House Committee on Commerce and Energy will be open to the public.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1936
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Establishment of Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program and Fund. Directs the Department of State Police to establish the uniform standards for the creation of the Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program. The bill requires the Department to (i) inform local law-enforcement agencies of the policies and procedures to be used for the Program, (ii) provide guidelines to participating local law-enforcement agencies on implementation of the Program, and (iii) establish a formula for determining any monetary incentive for a surrendered firearm. The bill clarifies that participation in the Program by a local law-enforcement agency is voluntary. The bill also directs the Department to establish the Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Fund, a nonreverting fund to be used solely for the purposes of development and implementation of the Program.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1937
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
General Assembly; Legislator Compensation Commission established. Establishes the Legislator Compensation Commission, to be formed every four years for the purpose of reviewing the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments received by members of the General Assembly and determining whether any adjustments to salaries or allowances are needed. The Commission shall consist of two former Governors, two former members of the Senate of Virginia, and two former members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Joint Rules Committee, with equal representation given to the two major political parties in the Commonwealth. Any adjustments made to salaries, expense allowances, or other emoluments or benefits based upon the recommendation of the Commission shall be effective beginning with January 1 of the year immediately following the general election for all members of the General Assembly.