Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2028
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Guardianship; duties of guardian; visitation requirements. Requires a guardian to visit an incapacitated person at least three times per year and at least once every 120 days. The bill requires that at least two of the visits be conducted by the guardian and directs that at least one of such visits be in-person. The bill allows the second visit by the guardian to be conducted by the guardian via virtual conference or video call. The bill allows the remaining visit to be conducted (i) by the guardian; (ii) by a person other than the guardian, including (a) a family member monitored by the guardian or (b) a skilled professional retained by the guardian to perform guardianship duties on behalf of the guardian and who is experienced in the care of individuals, including older adults or adults with disabilities; or (iii) via virtual conference or video call between either the guardian or such family member monitored by the guardian or skilled professional and the incapacitated person, provided that the technological means by which such conference or call can take place are readily available. The bill requires a person who visits the incapacitated person in lieu of the guardian to provide a written report to the guardian regarding any such visit. Guardianship; duties of guardian; visitation requirements. Requires a guardian to visit an incapacitated person at least three times per year and at least once every 120 days. The bill requires that at least two of the visits be conducted by the guardian and directs that at least one of such visits be in-person. The bill allows the second visit by the guardian to be conducted by the guardian via virtual conference or video call. The bill allows the remaining visit to be conducted (i) by the guardian; (ii) by a person other than the guardian, including (a) a family member monitored by the guardian or (b) a skilled professional retained by the guardian to perform guardianship duties on behalf of the guardian and who is experienced in the care of individuals, including older adults or adults with disabilities; or (iii) via virtual conference or video call between either the guardian or such family member monitored by the guardian or skilled professional and the incapacitated person, provided that the technological means by which such conference or call can take place are readily available. The bill requires a person who visits the incapacitated person in lieu of the guardian to provide a written report to the guardian regarding any such visit.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2029
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
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Public Guardian and Conservator Advisory Board member terms; local or regional public guardian and conservator programs; staff to client ratio. Extends to four years the terms of all members of the Public Guardian and Conservator Advisory Board currently appointed by the Governor to three-year terms. The bill also eliminates the requirement that each local or regional public guardian and conservator program develop a plan, in consultation with the local circuit court and sheriffs, where appropriate, to provide advance notice to the court when the program falls below or exceeds the ideal range of staff to client ratios in order to assure continuity of services.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2030
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
School boards; nonresident student enrollment policies; work group; report. Requires any school board that accepts for enrollment students who reside outside of the local school division to establish and make available to the public policies or regulations that include considerations for the eligibility for such nonresident student enrollment, application procedures and timelines, and a transparent and fair method to address enrollment requests beyond capacity. The bill requires the Department of Education to compile and post publicly and prominently on its website a database of each such set of school board policies or regulations. The bill requires the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to issue recommendations no later than October 1, 2023, to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the implementation of tuition-free nonresident student enrollment in the Commonwealth. School boards; nonresident student enrollment policies; work group; report. Requires any school board that accepts for enrollment students who reside outside of the local school division to establish and make available to the public policies or regulations that include considerations for the eligibility for such nonresident student enrollment, application procedures and timelines, and a transparent and fair method to address enrollment requests beyond capacity. The bill requires the Department of Education to compile and post publicly and prominently on its website a database of each such set of school board policies or regulations. The bill requires the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to issue recommendations no later than October 1, 2023, to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the implementation of tuition-free nonresident student enrollment in the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2031
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Department of Education; establishment of Farm to School Program Task Force. Requires the Department of Education to establish and appoint such members as it deems necessary or appropriate to the Farm to School Program Task Force for the purpose of increasing student access throughout the Commonwealth to high-quality farm to school programs, defined in the bill as programs (i) whereby public schools purchase and feature prominently in school meals locally produced food or (ii) that involve experiential student learning opportunities relating to local food and agriculture, including school and community garden programs and local farm visits. The bill requires the Task Force to collaborate with local school boards, community-based organizations, farmers, relevant state and local agencies, and other relevant stakeholders to (a) assess existing farm to school programs within and outside the Commonwealth to identify and disseminate to each local school board best practices for implementing and sustaining such programs, (b) establish and distribute to each local school board a guidance document for the establishment and operation of school garden programs, (c) provide information and resources to each local school board to assist it in leveraging grant funds to support farm to school programs, and (d) collect such data and make such policy recommendations to local school boards, the Board of Education, and the General Assembly as it deems appropriate.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2032
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
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Compensating victims of crime; awards from Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Provides an exception to the general rule that a victim must fully cooperate with all law-enforcement agencies in order to receive an award from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund in those instances where the law-enforcement agency certifies that the claimant or award recipient was willing but unable to cooperate due to a good faith belief that such cooperation would have endangered such claimant or award recipient and such claimant or award recipient was not provided with any victim or witness protection services when such protection services were requested by a law-enforcement agency. Compensating victims of crime; awards from Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. Provides an exception to the general rule that a victim must fully cooperate with all law-enforcement agencies in order to receive an award from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund in those instances where the law-enforcement agency certifies that the claimant or award recipient was willing but unable to cooperate due to a good faith belief that such cooperation would have endangered such claimant or award recipient and such claimant or award recipient was not provided with any victim or witness protection services when such protection services were requested by a law-enforcement agency.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2033
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact. The Compact increases public access to audiology and speech-language pathology services by providing for the mutual recognition of other member state licenses for such services. The Compact has been enacted in 23 states and the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission is currently preparing rules and bylaws in order for the member states to be fully integrated in the Compact's data system.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2034
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
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Joint transportation meeting; National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to invite a Virginia representative of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board Steering Committee to participate in and present information at the joint transportation meeting held annually concerning projects in Planning District 8. The bill clarifies that such member is not required to participate in the meeting. The bill requires the meeting to be made available online in a manner that allows the public to contemporaneously view and hear the meeting and provides that if such transmission fails the meeting is not required to recess. Joint transportation meeting; National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to invite a Virginia representative of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board Steering Committee to participate in and present information at the joint transportation meeting held annually concerning projects in Planning District 8. The bill clarifies that such member is not required to participate in the meeting. The bill requires the meeting to be made available online in a manner that allows the public to contemporaneously view and hear the meeting and provides that if such transmission fails the meeting is not required to recess.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2035
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2026. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees for family and medical leave. Funding for the program is provided through premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning in 2025. The amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed 80 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted annually to reflect changes in the statewide average weekly wage. The measure caps the duration of paid leave at 12 weeks in any application year. The bill provides self-employed individuals the option of participating in the program.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2036
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Department of Veterans Services; veterans care center in Northern Virginia; report. Directs the Department of Veterans Services to study and develop a plan for the establishment of a veterans care center in the eastern portion of the Northern Virginia region and to report such plan to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Education and Health by November 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2037
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Supplementing compensation of public defender. Allows the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the public defender or any of his deputies to pay such funds directly to the Indigent Defense Commission or to the employees with notice to the Commission of any amount so provided. The bill requires the Commission to provide the funds directly to employees in combination with the compensation fixed by the executive director. Current law requires that such funds be provided directly to the employees, with notice to the Commission of the amount of such funds. Supplementing compensation of public defender. Allows the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the public defender or any of his deputies to pay such funds directly to the Indigent Defense Commission or to the employees with notice to the Commission of any amount so provided. The bill requires the Commission to provide the funds directly to employees in combination with the compensation fixed by the executive director. Current law requires that such funds be provided directly to the employees, with notice to the Commission of the amount of such funds.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2038
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
State employees; health insurance coverage; incapacitated adult children. Provides that the plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management for the provision of health insurance coverage for state employees shall allow for an incapacitated child, defined in the bill, to be enrolled under a participating state employee's coverage without regard to whether such child lives with the covered employee as a member of the employee's household so long as the child is dependent upon the employee for more than half of the child's financial support and the child is receiving residential support services. State employees; health insurance coverage; incapacitated adult children. Provides that the plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management for the provision of health insurance coverage for state employees shall allow for an incapacitated child, defined in the bill, to be enrolled under a participating state employee's coverage without regard to whether such child lives with the covered employee as a member of the employee's household so long as the child is dependent upon the employee for more than half of the child's financial support and the child is receiving residential support services.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2039
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Local correctional facilities; fees; report. Eliminates or caps certain fees charged to inmates in local correctional facilities and repeals provisions that allow a sheriff or jail superintendent to establish a deferred or installment payment agreement or contract with a collections agency when an inmate is unable to pay fees owed to the local correctional facility. The bill establishes the manner in which the balance of all accounts maintained for an inmate's use must be transferred to the inmate upon release.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2040
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Correctional officers; arrest without a warrant during transportation of inmate. Adds the escape of an inmate while being transported by a correctional officer to the crimes for which a correctional officer is authorized to arrest without a warrant.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2041
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
Engrossed
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Local parks; walking trails; liability; property owners. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of walking trails and releases from certain civil liability the owner of any property leased, licensed, or provided by easement for such use in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2042
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Animal testing; annual report; whistle blower protections created; Animal Welfare Whistle Blower Reward Fund established; civil penalty. Requires state and private facilities using animal test methods to annually submit on or before December 1 to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services a report regarding the use of animals in biomedical or behavioral research for the preceding year. The bill also creates whistle blower protections for any violations of any animal care requirements and establishes the Animal Welfare Whistle Blower Reward Fund to provide monetary rewards to persons who have disclosed any such violations. Finally, the bill provides that violations will result in a civil penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $2,500.