Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2043
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Refer
2/1/23
Tax credit; research and development expenses; aggregate increase. Increases from $7.77 million to $10 million the aggregate amount of credits available for certain research and development expenses beginning with fiscal year 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2044
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Fines and costs assessed against juveniles in criminal and traffic cases; report. Gives a court discretion in determining the appropriate amount, if any, of fines and fees imposed against a juvenile for a traffic infraction or other traffic offense and eliminates the court's authority to impose a fine as an order of disposition for a juvenile delinquency. The bill also provides that after a juvenile is adjudicated to be delinquent but prior to the imposition of any penalty, the court shall determine the applicable fees and costs, including attorney fees, to be assessed against the juvenile's parents and shall determine if such juvenile's parents are financially able to pay for the attorney in whole or in part and refuse to do so. The bill provides that while determining if any fees or costs should be imposed, the court shall give the juvenile, or the juvenile's attorney, and the parents an opportunity to be heard. Finally, the bill requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to annually report to the Governor and General Assembly on the total fines and costs assessed in the preceding calendar year in all criminal and traffic cases for each circuit court participating in the Office of the Executive Secretary's case management system and for each general district court and juvenile and domestic relations district court. The bill requires that the report include the fines and costs assessed by race of the defendant. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2045
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
Housing; creation of the Zoning for Housing Production Act; affordable dwelling unit policy incentives. Creates, within the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Zoning for Housing Production Act, which establishes a special nonreverting fund in the state treasury to be known as the Zoning for Housing Production Fund. The bill requires moneys from the Fund to be awarded as grants to localities by application to the Department for the purpose of creating and maintaining affordable housing in mixed-income communities, defined in the bill. To be eligible for a grant from the Fund, a locality is required to make a change to such locality's zoning ordinance in accordance with the requirements of the bill. The provisions of the bill expire on July 1, 2029.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2046
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
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
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Department of Housing and Community Development; statewide housing needs assessment and plan; annual reports by certain localities. Adds to the powers and duties of the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to conduct a comprehensive statewide housing needs assessment at least every five years, to develop a statewide housing plan and update such plan at least every five years, and to provide annual updates to the General Assembly regarding meeting the goals of such plan. The bill requires Virginia localities with a population greater than 3,500 to submit annual reports summarizing any local housing policies, ordinances, or processes affecting the development and construction of housing during the preceding fiscal year to the Department by September 1 for publication on the Department's website.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2047
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts such authorization to counties with an urban county executive form of government or county manager plan of government and certain other localities. The bill also requires the comprehensive plan of each locality to show the connection between affordable housing and other needs of its residents, such as job creation, educational opportunities, and parks and recreational activities.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2048
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Housing Development Authority; economically mixed projects; affordable rent for persons or families of low or moderate income. Provides that in any economically mixed project financed through the Virginia Housing Development Authority, at least 20 percent of the units must be held available for occupancy by persons and families earning 80 percent or less of the area median income, and the rent charged for such units shall be at least 10 percent below the rents of unrestricted units in the project. Economically mixed projects located in a locality with a population no greater than 35,000 as determined by the most recent U.S. census shall not be required to limit the rent charged for such units to at least 10 percent below the rents of unrestricted units in the project.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2049
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Limits the entitlement of voters with disabilities to vote outside the polls to those whose disability prevents them from entering the polling place. Expands the definition of disability for purposes of providing assistance outside of a polling place to voters with disabilities to include any permanent or temporary disability. Under current law, the disability is limited to a permanent or temporary physical disability.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2050
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene as many all-virtual public meetings as each such public body deems acceptable in its individual remote participation meeting policy, to be adopted at least once annually by recorded vote at a public meeting. Current law limits all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater, and prohibits any such meeting from being held consecutively with another all-virtual public meeting.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2051
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Custodial interrogations; false statements to a child prohibited; inauthentic replica documents prohibited. Prohibits law-enforcement officers from making false statements or materially misrepresenting any fact prior to or during a custodial interrogation of a child to secure the cooperation, confession, or conviction of such child. The bill also prohibits law-enforcement officers from using inauthentic replica documents during a custodial interrogation to secure a person's cooperation or confession or to secure a conviction. "Inauthentic replica document" is defined by the bill as any document generated by law-enforcement officers or their agents that (i) contains a false statement, signature, seal, letterhead, or contact information or (ii) materially misrepresents any fact.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2052
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
School boards; policies for excusing students from attendance at school; religious reasons. Requires each local school board to develop policies for excusing students who are absent from school for religious reasons, including the observance of a religious holiday or participation in religious instruction. Current law only requires each local school board to develop policies for excusing students who are absent from school by reason of observance of a religious holiday.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2053
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Refer
1/26/23
Protect Virginia Grant Fund and Program created. Establishes the Protect Virginia Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to award grants to establishments licensed by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority for the purpose of providing adequate security for such licensed establishments. The bill provides that prior to the close of each fiscal year, the Director of the Department shall determine whether there are any surplus payroll funds and deposit 10 percent of such funds into the Fund. Surplus payroll funds are defined in the bill as moneys that were appropriated to the agencies within the Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Security in a fiscal year for the purpose of providing salaries and other compensation to employees of such agencies that will remain unspent due to staffing shortages or the inability to find qualified personnel. Protect Virginia Grant Fund and Program created. Establishes the Protect Virginia Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to award grants to establishments licensed by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority for the purpose of providing adequate security for such licensed establishments. The bill provides that prior to the close of each fiscal year, the Director of the Department shall determine whether there are any surplus payroll funds and deposit 10 percent of such funds into the Fund. Surplus payroll funds are defined in the bill as moneys that were appropriated to the agencies within the Secretariat of Public Safety and Homeland Security in a fiscal year for the purpose of providing salaries and other compensation to employees of such agencies that will remain unspent due to staffing shortages or the inability to find qualified personnel.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2054
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Information to certain defendants; services of community services boards. Requires general district courts, juvenile and domestic relations district courts, and circuit courts, in cases in which a defendant is found not guilty of any offense after a trial at which evidence of the defendant's mental condition at the time of the alleged offense was introduced, to make available to the defendant information regarding services provided by the community services board and how such services may be accessed. The bill requires each community services board to develop, regularly update, and make available to such courts in the same locality information regarding the services provided by the community services board and information about how to access such services.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2055
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; surplus payroll funds. Directs the Chief Medical Examiner to pay into a special fund any amount of surplus payroll funds that will remain unspent at the end of each quarter of each fiscal year. The bill defines "surplus payroll funds" as payroll funds appropriated to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for salaries and compensation that at the end of each quarter of each fiscal year will remain unspent due to personnel vacancies. Such funds are to be deposited in the Medical Examiner Compensation Fund, created by the bill, to be used to make technological upgrades or provide temporary pay, recruitment or retention bonuses, or overtime pay to Office personnel. The bill requires the Chief Medical Examiner to establish a written policy for making disbursements from the Fund and for the State Health Commissioner to approve the policy. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; surplus payroll funds. Directs the Chief Medical Examiner to pay into a special fund any amount of surplus payroll funds that will remain unspent at the end of each quarter of each fiscal year. The bill defines "surplus payroll funds" as payroll funds appropriated to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for salaries and compensation that at the end of each quarter of each fiscal year will remain unspent due to personnel vacancies. Such funds are to be deposited in the Medical Examiner Compensation Fund, created by the bill, to be used to make technological upgrades or provide temporary pay, recruitment or retention bonuses, or overtime pay to Office personnel. The bill requires the Chief Medical Examiner to establish a written policy for making disbursements from the Fund and for the State Health Commissioner to approve the policy.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2056
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Professions and occupations; proof of identity. Replaces the requirement for proof of citizenship to obtain a license, certificate, registration, or other authorization issued by the Commonwealth to engage in a business, trade, profession, or occupation, except for an application with the Department of Health Professions, with a requirement to provide proof of identity that includes a government-issued identification card or driver's license, or other photo identification, along with documentation of the applicant's current address. Under current law, an application must include either a social security number or a control number issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2057
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Public benefits; eligibility of certain aliens. Repeals provisions prohibiting persons other than United States citizens or persons who are legally present in the United States from receiving certain public benefits.