Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1968
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
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Department of Historic Resources; Green Book historic site designations. Directs the Department of Historic Resources, in partnership with the Virginia Tourism Corporation and the Department of Transportation, to designate or approve supplementary signs for historic site signs identifying Green Book locations and businesses in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "Green Book" as The Negro Motorist Green Book published by Victor Hugo Green, which provided a list of hotels, guest houses, service stations, drug stores, taverns, barbershops, and restaurants known to be safe for traveling Black Americans during the Jim Crow era. Department of Historic Resources; Green Book historic site designations. Directs the Department of Historic Resources, in partnership with the Virginia Tourism Corporation and the Department of Transportation, to designate or approve supplementary signs for historic site signs identifying Green Book locations and businesses in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "Green Book" as The Negro Motorist Green Book published by Victor Hugo Green, which provided a list of hotels, guest houses, service stations, drug stores, taverns, barbershops, and restaurants known to be safe for traveling Black Americans during the Jim Crow era.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1969
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants adoptees 18 years of age or older access to their original birth certificate.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1970
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan. Renames the Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee as the Virginia Resilience Technical Advisory Committee, removes the provision in current law that members of the Committee shall include executive directors of planning district commissions or their designees from coastal areas only, and requires the Committee to assist the Department of Conservation and Recreation in developing, updating, and implementing the Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1971
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Alcoholic beverage control; slotting fees. Requires retail licensees to keep complete, accurate, and separate records of all slotting fees, as defined in the bill, received from a manufacturer of both alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, including a manufacturer that licenses its nonalcoholic products brand to another manufacturer for use with an alcoholic product.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1972
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
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process; repeal. Repeals the provision allowing an exemption from the creditor process for emergency relief payments, defined as a 2020 recovery rebate for individuals and qualifying children provided pursuant to § 2201 of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (P.L. 116-136) or any future federal payments or rebates provided directly to individuals for economic relief or stimulus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1973
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Failed
2/25/23
Tetrahydrocannabinol; industrial hemp; regulated hemp Tetrahydrocannabinol; industrial hemp; regulated hemp products. Establishes provisions for the registration of a retail facility for regulated hemp products, as defined in the bill, establishes product packaging, labeling, and testing requirements for such products, and creates a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for certain violations relating to such products. The bill requires any person who manufactures an industrial hemp extract, as defined in the bill, or food containing an industrial hemp extract to obtain a permit from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services and creates a Class 1 misdemeanor and a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for certain violations. The bill clarifies that any substances containing a concentration of total tetrahydrocannabinol, as defined in the bill, of more than 0.3 percent, including a hemp product or industrial hemp extract, are included in the definition of marijuana and also clarifies that the definition of marijuana does not include any substance containing tetrahydrocannabinol that has been placed by the Board of Pharmacy into one of the schedules set forth in the Drug Control Act. The bill increases the civil penalty for certain actions relating to sales of cigarettes and hemp products from $50 to $500. The bill also removes tetrahydrocannabinol from the Schedule I list of controlled substances and permits the Board of Pharmacy to schedule, deschedule, or reschedule a tetrahydrocannabinol isomer, except delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or salts of such isomer in accordance with the provisions of the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1974
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Electric utilities; underground transmission lines. Provides that construction and reconstruction of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts along a highway right-of-way under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 where a data center proposal is under construction in an area located within a half mile of a National Battlefield Park and within one mile of a state forest is in the public interest.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1975
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Income tax; Foreign Service retirement benefits subtraction. Establishes for certain individuals receiving Foreign Service retirement benefits an income tax subtraction of such benefits up to $5,000 in taxable year 2023, up to $10,000 in taxable year 2024, up to $15,000 in taxable year 2025, and up to $20,000 in taxable year 2026 and each taxable year thereafter. The bill defines Foreign Service retirement benefits as any retirement income received by an individual for employment in the Foreign Service of the United States and as an eligible member of the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System or the Foreign Service Pension System and provides that such subtraction is allowed only for recipients of Foreign Service retirement benefits who are age 60 or older.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1976
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Temporary detention; release of detained individual. Permits the director of a facility where a person is awaiting transport to the facility of temporary detention pursuant to a temporary detention order to release the person if an employee or a designee of the local community services board, in consultation with the person's treating physician, (i) conducts an evaluation of the person, (ii) determines that the person no longer meets the commitment criteria, (iii) authorizes the release of the person, and (iv) provides a discharge plan.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1977
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area; continued withdrawal permit for residential well. Directs the State Water Control Board to waive the expiration of any ground water withdrawal permit for a well that serves exclusively residential users, is located in the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area north of the Occoquan River, and is located within five miles of any commercial or industrial permitted ground water withdrawal. The bill provides that such waiver shall continue in force until the commercial or industrial permitted ground water withdrawals have been halted for five years. The Department of Environmental Quality shall then assess whether the termination of the commercial or industrial permitted ground water withdrawals has substantially mitigated the stress upon the aquifer and redetermine whether the permit for the residential well shall be renewed.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1978
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Taxable income apportionment; retail companies. Provides that, beginning with taxable year 2023, affiliated corporations filing on a consolidated basis may elect to apportion the taxable income of all members of the affiliated group using sales factor alone even if one or more members of the affiliated group would be required to use different apportionment factors if filing separate returns. The election is valid only in taxable years for which 80 percent or more of the affiliated group's sales is derived from retail company activities.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1979
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
Engrossed
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Alcoholic beverage control; displays of wine and beer. Requires persons licensed to sell wine and beer for off-premises consumption that display such wine and beer outside a clearly discernible location reserved for alcoholic beverages to (i) not place such wine or beer in an area immediately adjacent to nonalcoholic beverages containing the same or similar brand name, logo, or packaging as an alcoholic beverage and (ii) equip any such display with signage that indicates the product is an alcoholic beverage, is clearly visible to consumers, and is of sufficient size to notify the consumer that the product contains alcohol. The bill clarifies that its provisions do not prohibit the placement of nonalcoholic wine or beer in or near a display of alcoholic beverages that contain the same or similar brand name, logo, or packaging as the nonalcoholic wine or beer.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1980
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
School boards; codes of student conduct; student discipline alternatives. Requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct criteria for the use of non-exclusionary student discipline measures. The bill requires each school board's code of student conduct to be consistent with but permits such code to be more stringent than such guidelines and the Board of Education's guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension. The bill also requires each such code of student conduct to include a requirement to utilize as alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and exclusion other interventions such as positive behavior incentives, mediation, peer-to-peer counseling, and community service and to include a requirement to report on the use of student instructional supports and behavioral interventions as categorized by the Department of Education in its student behavior and administrative response data collection.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1981
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Board of Education; Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Virginia; school security officers and school resource officers. Requires the Board of Education's Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Virginia to apply to school security officers and school resource officers and requires the Board to make such amendments to such regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1982
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
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Public school principals; parental notification of certain student violations. Requires the principal of any public elementary or secondary school or his designee to notify the parents of any student who violates a school board policy or the compulsory school attendance requirements when such violation is likely to result in the student's suspension or the filing of a court petition. Current law permits such principals to make such a notification when the violation could result in the student's suspension or the filing of a court petition and is silent on the designation of such power.