Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1398
Introduced
11/30/22
Refer
11/30/22
Carrying a concealed handgun with a permit; private property. Prohibits an owner of private property from prohibiting a person who has a valid concealed handgun permit from storing a firearm or other weapon in a motor vehicle if such vehicle is located in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress or egress to such private property that is open to the public. Under current law, the owner of the private property where the vehicle is located may prohibit the possession of any handgun or other weapon on his property.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1399
Introduced
11/30/22
Refer
11/30/22
Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports; student participation; certain requirements. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on each team member's biological sex at birth: (i) for "males," "men," or "boys"; (ii) for "females," "women," or "girls"; or (iii) as "coed" or "mixed," including both (a) males, men, or boys and (b) females, women, or girls. The bill prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education and that is expressly designated for "males," "men," or "boys" from being open to any student whose biological sex at birth is female unless such school or institution does not sponsor such a team or sport that is expressly designated for "females," "women," or "girls" or as "coed" or "mixed." The bill prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education and that is expressly designated for "females," "women," or "girls" from being open to any student whose biological sex at birth is male. The bill prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education from competing against any interscholastic, intercollegiate, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a private elementary or secondary school or a private institution of higher education unless such private school or institution complies with the applicable provisions of the bill for the team or sport that it sponsors. The bill also establishes a cause of action for students, schools, and institutions that suffer harm as a result of a violation of certain provisions of the bill. The bill finally prohibits any school board from using any funds or permitting any school within the local school division to use any funds to join, affiliate with, pay dues or fees to, or in any way financially support any interscholastic athletic association, body, or entity unless the constitution, rules, or policies of such association, body, or entity recognizes, sanctions, and regulates interscholastic competition between wrestling teams exclusively comprised of students whose biological sex at birth is female. Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports; student participation; certain requirements. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on each team member's biological sex at birth: (i) for "males," "men," or "boys"; (ii) for "females," "women," or "girls"; or (iii) as "coed" or "mixed," including both (a) males, men, or boys and (b) females, women, or girls. The bill prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education and that is expressly designated for "males," "men," or "boys" from being open to any student whose biological sex at birth is female unless such school or institution does not sponsor such a team or sport that is expressly designated for "females," "women," or "girls" or as "coed" or "mixed." The bill prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education and that is expressly designated for "females," "women," or "girls" from being open to any student whose biological sex at birth is male. The bill prohibits any interscholastic, intercollegiate, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education from competing against any interscholastic, intercollegiate, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a private elementary or secondary school or a private institution of higher education unless such private school or institution complies with the applicable provisions of the bill for the team or sport that it sponsors. The bill also establishes a cause of action for students, schools, and institutions that suffer harm as a result of a violation of certain provisions of the bill. The bill finally prohibits any school board from using any funds or permitting any school within the local school division to use any funds to join, affiliate with, pay dues or fees to, or in any way financially support any interscholastic athletic association, body, or entity unless the constitution, rules, or policies of such association, body, or entity recognizes, sanctions, and regulates interscholastic competition between wrestling teams exclusively comprised of students whose biological sex at birth is female.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1400
Introduced
12/15/22
Refer
12/15/22
Report Pass
2/5/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Budget Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I. Budget Bill. Amends items of and adds items to Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1401
Introduced
11/30/22
Refer
11/30/22
Community Policing Act; repeal. Repeals the Community Policing Act that, under current law, prohibits law-enforcement officers and State Police officers from engaging in bias-based profiling in the performance of their official duties. The bill also repeals the provisions requiring the State Police to create the Community Policing Reporting Database into which sheriffs, police forces, and State Police officers report certain data pertaining to, among other law-enforcement activities, investigatory motor vehicle stops.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1402
Introduced
11/30/22
Refer
11/30/22
Personal property taxes; valuation. Requires, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2024, that tangible personal property employed in a trade or business be valued for taxation using the federal Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) of depreciation in place of the valuation methods currently in effect. The MACRS is also required to be used for machinery and tools taxes.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1403
Introduced
11/30/22
Refer
11/30/22
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Certain public institutions of higher education; provision of university housing at no cost to certain students during scheduled intersessions. Requires any public institution of higher education that maintains and operates university housing during scheduled intersessions to provide access to such housing at no cost to any student who is eligible for a certain tuition and fee grant based on his placement in foster care at age 18 and satisfaction of several other enumerated criteria, provided that the student (i) is a registered student for the immediately following academic term and (ii) meets the definitions and conditions of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1404
Introduced
12/1/22
Refer
12/1/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Cigarette delivery sale requirements; definition of cigarette. Defines the term "cigarette" for purposes of cigarette delivery sale requirements.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1405
Introduced
12/2/22
Refer
12/2/22
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/14/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Corporate income tax returns; filing method for affiliated corporations. Removes the requirement that, in order for a group of affiliated corporations to be granted permission from the Tax Commissioner to change their filing status for corporate income tax purposes, for the previous tax year there would have been no decrease in tax liability computed under the proposed election as compared to the affiliated group's former filing method. The bill retains the current requirement that the affiliated group agree to file returns under both the new filing method and the former method and pay the greater of the two amounts for the taxable year in which the new election is effective and for the immediately succeeding taxable year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1406
Introduced
12/5/22
Refer
12/5/22
License tax; ownership of dogs and cats. Eliminates the requirement to pay a license tax for owning a dog or cat and eliminates the misdemeanor penalty for failing to pay such license tax.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1407
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exception for concealed handgun permit holders. Adds an exception for persons who have been issued a valid concealed handgun permit by the Commonwealth or persons who have a valid concealed handgun or concealed weapon permit or license by reciprocity to the prohibition of carrying a firearm within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof, or any office where employees of the Commonwealth or any agency thereof are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1408
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Report Pass
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain cancers. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five years of service in their position to include bladder and thyroid cancer. The presumption for these cancers does not apply for any individual diagnosed with such a condition before July 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1409
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Report Pass
1/17/23
Engrossed
1/20/23
Refer
1/24/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Engrossed
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Drug Control Act; prohibition of distribution of hypodermic needles; exception. Provides an exception to the prohibition of distribution of hypodermic needles for the distribution of hypodermic needles that are designed to be used with a reusable injector pen for the administration of insulin.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1410
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Report Pass
1/19/23
Refer
1/19/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Workers' compensation; Department of State Police; State Police Officers' Retirement System; presumption for arson, bomb, and hazardous materials investigators. Expands the workers' compensation presumption of compensability for certain cancers causing the death or disability of certain employees who have completed five years of service in their position to include (i) arson investigators or bomb investigators employed by the Department of State Police and (ii) members of the State Police Officers' Retirement System who collect, analyze, or handle hazardous materials, infectious biological substances and radiological agents, fentanyl, or methamphetamine.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1411
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/14/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and Program; report. Codifies the Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, originally created in the 2021 Appropriation Act, and establishes the Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Program to carry out the purposes of the Fund. The Program shall provide grants and loans to community development financial institutions and other similar entities for the purpose of providing financing to small businesses, housing development and rehabilitation projects, and community revitalization real estate projects in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to oversee the Fund and Program and to (i) identify qualified recipients of funding; (ii) ensure that grants and loans promote housing and community development, capital access, housing access, and small business support; (iii) ensure that qualified recipients emphasize microfinancing, defined as financing to small businesses in amounts of $100,000 or less, in using program funds; and (iv) utilize Program funds to promote collaborative and cooperative projects with public and private sector partners. The bill requires the Department to submit an annual report on the use and impact of funding provided.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1412
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Refer
1/23/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Maximum number of judges in each judicial district. Increases from two to three the maximum number of authorized general district court judges in the Twenty-second Judicial District. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.