Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2103
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Special exceptions; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to impose a condition upon any special exception or special use permit relating to short-term rentals that provides that such special exception or special use permit will automatically expire upon a change of ownership of the property, a change in the owner of the business or a transfer of majority control of a business entity, a change in possession, a change in the operation or management of a facility, or the passage of a specific period of time.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2104
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
School crossing zones. Increases the maximum boundaries of a school crossing zone from 600 feet to 750 feet from the limits of school property. School crossing zones. Increases the maximum boundaries of a school crossing zone from 600 feet to 750 feet from the limits of school property.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2105
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
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Civil actions; standards governing consolidation and transfer; allocation of attorney fees. Specifies that, in a combined civil action, the court may allocate attorney fees to separate issues into common questions that require treatment on a consolidated basis and individual cases that do not. Current law allows the court to allocate fees but does not specify attorney fees. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2106
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Assault or assault and battery against a law-enforcement officer; arrest and prosecution of individual experiencing a mental health emergency. Provides that no individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for an assault or assault and battery against a law-enforcement officer if at the time of the assault or assault and battery (i) the individual (a) is experiencing a mental health emergency or (b) meets the criteria for issuance of an emergency custody order pursuant to § 37.2-808 and (ii) the law-enforcement officer subject to the assault or assault and battery was responding to a call for service requesting assistance for such individual. The bill provides that no law-enforcement officer acting in good faith shall be found liable for false arrest if it is later determined that the person arrested was immune from prosecution. Assault or assault and battery against a law-enforcement officer; arrest and prosecution of individual experiencing a mental health emergency. Provides that no individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for an assault or assault and battery against a law-enforcement officer if at the time of the assault or assault and battery (i) the individual (a) is experiencing a mental health emergency or (b) meets the criteria for issuance of an emergency custody order pursuant to § 37.2-808 and (ii) the law-enforcement officer subject to the assault or assault and battery was responding to a call for service requesting assistance for such individual. The bill provides that no law-enforcement officer acting in good faith shall be found liable for false arrest if it is later determined that the person arrested was immune from prosecution.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2107
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Certain retired licensed public school employees; continued employment; service retirement allowance. Permits any person receiving a service retirement allowance from the Virginia Retirement System who is hired by a local school board as an instructional or administrative employee required to be licensed by the Board of Education or as a school bus driver to elect to continue to receive the retirement allowance during such employment if he has been receiving such retirement allowance for at least two academic semesters, or the equivalent, preceding his employment and is not receiving a retirement benefit pursuant to an early retirement incentive program from any local school division within the Commonwealth. Current law permits any person receiving a service retirement allowance from the Virginia Retirement System who is hired by a local school board as an instructional or administrative employee required to be licensed by the Board of Education or as a school bus driver to elect to continue to receive the retirement allowance during such employment if he has been receiving such retirement allowance for at least 12 calendar months preceding his employment, he is not receiving a retirement benefit pursuant to an early retirement incentive program from any local school division within the Commonwealth, and at the time he is employed, the position to which he is assigned is among those identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the relevant division superintendent, or the relevant local school board as a critical shortage area. The bill also extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2030, the sunset date for provisions (i) requiring school boards, division superintendents, if so requested, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually identify and report critical shortages of teachers and administrative personnel and (ii) permitting any person receiving a service retirement allowance who is hired as a local school board instructional or administrative employee required to be licensed by the Board of Education to elect to continue to receive the retirement allowance during such employment under certain conditions. Certain retired licensed public school employees; continued employment; service retirement allowance. Permits any person receiving a service retirement allowance from the Virginia Retirement System who is hired by a local school board as an instructional or administrative employee required to be licensed by the Board of Education or as a school bus driver to elect to continue to receive the retirement allowance during such employment if he has been receiving such retirement allowance for at least two academic semesters, or the equivalent, preceding his employment and is not receiving a retirement benefit pursuant to an early retirement incentive program from any local school division within the Commonwealth. Current law permits any person receiving a service retirement allowance from the Virginia Retirement System who is hired by a local school board as an instructional or administrative employee required to be licensed by the Board of Education or as a school bus driver to elect to continue to receive the retirement allowance during such employment if he has been receiving such retirement allowance for at least 12 calendar months preceding his employment, he is not receiving a retirement benefit pursuant to an early retirement incentive program from any local school division within the Commonwealth, and at the time he is employed, the position to which he is assigned is among those identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the relevant division superintendent, or the relevant local school board as a critical shortage area. The bill also extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2030, the sunset date for provisions (i) requiring school boards, division superintendents, if so requested, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually identify and report critical shortages of teachers and administrative personnel and (ii) permitting any person receiving a service retirement allowance who is hired as a local school board instructional or administrative employee required to be licensed by the Board of Education to elect to continue to receive the retirement allowance during such employment under certain conditions.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2108
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Safety and Health Codes Board; safe handling of patients. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt occupational safety and health standards regarding safe handling of patients that require hospitals to (i) adopt a policy that requires replacement of manual lifting and transferring of patients with powered patient transfer devices, lifting devices, and lift teams, as appropriate, for the specific patient and consistent with the employer's safety policies and (ii) provide training to any employee whose responsibility includes lifting, repositioning, or transferring patients using patient transfer, repositioning, or lifting devices that includes training on (a) the appropriate use of lifting devices and equipment; (b) the five areas of body exposure (vertical, lateral, bariatric, repositioning, and ambulation); and (c) the use of lifting devices to handle patients safely. Safety and Health Codes Board; safe handling of patients. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board to adopt occupational safety and health standards regarding safe handling of patients that require hospitals to (i) adopt a policy that requires replacement of manual lifting and transferring of patients with powered patient transfer devices, lifting devices, and lift teams, as appropriate, for the specific patient and consistent with the employer's safety policies and (ii) provide training to any employee whose responsibility includes lifting, repositioning, or transferring patients using patient transfer, repositioning, or lifting devices that includes training on (a) the appropriate use of lifting devices and equipment; (b) the five areas of body exposure (vertical, lateral, bariatric, repositioning, and ambulation); and (c) the use of lifting devices to handle patients safely.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2109
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Historic rehabilitation tax credit; use for historic school buildings. Extends the historic rehabilitation tax credit to include improvements to or reconstruction of a historic school building. Historic school building is defined in the bill as a certified historic structure or a structure that is at least 50 years old that is a public school or is to be used as a public school. Such historic rehabilitation projects shall be consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Repairs or renovations to windows, doors, structural features, or other projects that are consistent with such standards shall qualify for the credit.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2110
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/14/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Delinquent tax lands. Extends the maximum duration of an installment agreement between a locality and a landowner to pay delinquent taxes from 60 to 72 months. Delinquent tax lands. Extends the maximum duration of an installment agreement between a locality and a landowner to pay delinquent taxes from 60 to 72 months.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2111
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Refer
1/30/23
Standards of Quality; work-based learning; teacher leaders and mentors; principal mentors; certain personnel positions and initiatives. Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5. The bill also makes several changes relating to school personnel in Standard 2, including (i) requiring each school board to employ teacher leaders and teacher mentors at specified student-to-position ratios; (ii) lowering the ratio of English language learner students to teachers; (iii) lowering the ratio of assistant principals to students in each elementary, middle, and high school; (iv) lowering the ratio of school counselors to students in grades kindergarten through 12; and (v) increasing the required number of specialized student support positions from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students. Such specialized student support positions include school social workers, school psychologists, school nurses, licensed behavior analysts, licensed assistant behavior analysts, and other licensed health and behavioral positions.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2112
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Real property taxation; land and improvement classifications. Allows the City of Charlottesville to levy a tax on improvements to real property at a different rate than the tax imposed upon the land on which the improvement is located, provided that the tax rate is not zero and does not exceed the tax rate imposed on the land. Currently, only the Cities of Fairfax, Poquoson, Richmond, and Roanoke are allowed to tax an improvement to real property independently from the land on which it is situated.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2113
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Virginia Tourism Authority; Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; adoption of procurement policies; exemptions. Requires the governing boards of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, the Virginia Tourism Authority, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (the Authorities) to adopt policies for the procurement of goods and services by the respective authority. The bill requires such policies to incorporate certain provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA); under current law, the Authorities are exempt from the VPPA. The bill requires the Authorities to submit such policies every five years to the Governor, the Department of General Services, and the Chairs of the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology and the House Committee on General Laws beginning November 1, 2024.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2114
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Refer
1/25/23
Public institutions of higher education; tuition and financial aid; dependency override application form. Requires each public institution of higher education to create and maintain a form by which a student may apply for a dependency override, defined in the bill as the documented determination by a financial aid administrator pursuant to relevant federal law that, for the purposes of tuition and financial aid eligibility determinations, a student is an independent student by reason of other unusual circumstances. The bill requires such form to (i) be published electronically on the financial aid page of the institution's website; (ii) clearly explain, in language understandable to a student enrolled at the institution, the purposes of a dependency override, potential circumstances that may qualify a student for a dependency override, and common circumstances that do not qualify a student for a dependency override; (iii) explicitly include, in language understandable to a student enrolled at the institution, a statement that institutions of higher education are permitted to accept a range of documents to substantiate dependency override applications, including those documents specified by relevant federal law; and (iv) explicitly include, in language understandable to a student enrolled at the institution, the option to apply for a dependency override based on certain factors enumerated in the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2115
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Makes permanent provisions of the Code that expired on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a determination of initial eligibility for unemployment benefits, as determined by the issuance of compensation or waiting-week credit, payments shall continue, subject to a presumption of continued eligibility, until a determination is made that provides the claimant notice and an opportunity to be heard. The bill requires the Virginia Employment Commission to waive the obligation to repay any overpayment if (i) the overpayment was made without fault on the part of the individual receiving benefits and (ii) requiring repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience. Conditions for when overpayments are considered "without fault on the part of the individual" are outlined in the bill. Unemployment compensation; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Makes permanent provisions of the Code that expired on July 1, 2022, relating to unemployment compensation. The bill provides that when a claimant has had a determination of initial eligibility for unemployment benefits, as determined by the issuance of compensation or waiting-week credit, payments shall continue, subject to a presumption of continued eligibility, until a determination is made that provides the claimant notice and an opportunity to be heard. The bill requires the Virginia Employment Commission to waive the obligation to repay any overpayment if (i) the overpayment was made without fault on the part of the individual receiving benefits and (ii) requiring repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience. Conditions for when overpayments are considered "without fault on the part of the individual" are outlined in the bill. The bill further provides that the Commission shall notify each person with an unpaid overpayment of benefits that he may be entitled to a waiver of repayment and provide 30 days to request such a waiver. This applies to outstanding overpayments established for claim weeks commencing on or after March 15, 2020. The bill allows the Commission to suspend or forgo referring any unpaid overpayment of benefits established since March 15, 2020, to the collections process indefinitely. The bill specifies that all costs that result from implementing provisions of this bill shall be incurred by federal administrative grants and the general fund. Additionally, the bill adds overpayments that the Commission has waived the requirement to repay to the list of situations where specific employers are not responsible for benefit charges.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2116
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Employment; restrictions on use of credit report for employment purposes. Prohibits employers from (i) using a credit report in connection with or as a criterion for employment purposes, (ii) requesting or procuring a credit report for employment purposes, or (iii) requiring an employee or prospective employee to answer a question about the contents of a credit report or the information contained therein. Notwithstanding this prohibition, the bill lists conditions under which an employer or person acting on behalf of an employer may obtain, use, or seek a credit report from an employee or prospective employee. The bill prohibits any waiver of its requirements and prohibits retaliation and other discrimination or adverse action taken by an employer against an employee for alleging a violation of its requirements. The bill provides that the State Corporation Commission shall enforce the requirements of the bill by imposing civil penalties, notifying employers, and conducting informal conferences to assess violations.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2117
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Substance abuse counselors; barrier crimes; exception. Allows persons with convictions for possession of a controlled substance to work at adult substance abuse or adult mental health treatment programs.