Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2133
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
State Fire Marshal; authority. Clarifies that the State Fire Marshal, or his designee, is the authority having jurisdiction over state-owned buildings, properties, or structures for purposes of fire safety and fire prevention in accordance with the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2134
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Prohibited sales and loans to juveniles; definition of sexual conduct. Clarifies the definition of "sexual conduct" so that it is neutral regarding sexual orientation for the purposes of crimes related to prohibited sales and loans to juveniles.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2135
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination of rental agreement; victims of sexual abuse or criminal sexual assault. Provides that a tenant who is a victim of sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault may terminate such tenant's obligations under a rental agreement if the tenant (i) has obtained a protective order and has given proper written notice of termination during the period of the protective order or any extension thereof or (ii) as evidence of such abuse or criminal sexual assault, has obtained (a) records or files from a federal or state agency, law-enforcement agency, or court; (b) documentation from a domestic violence or sexual assault program; or (c) documentation from a religious, medical, or other professional and has given written notice of termination. Under current law, there must be a conviction before the tenant may terminate such obligations under a rental agreement.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2136
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Removal or restriction of access to printed or audiovisual material in public school libraries; review standards and procedures; protected classes or characteristics. Prohibits local school boards from removing or restricting access to printed or audiovisual materials available in public school libraries solely on the basis of the presence of characters, literary elements, themes, symbols, or other literary content relating to protected characteristics, including race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or other medical condition, or protected classes as defined in relevant law. The bill further provides that each school board must apply review standards related to the removal or restriction of access to printed or audiovisual material in public secondary school libraries, including those involving sexual content or nudity, consistently and equally, free from viewpoint discrimination based on the presence of literary representations of or literary content relating to such protected classes or protected characteristics.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2137
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
School boards; divisionwide literacy plans; contents; posting. Requires each divisionwide literacy plan to be submitted to the Department of Education and to identify which core literacy curricula, supplemental instructional practices and programs, and intervention programs from the list developed by the Department or alternative programs approved by the Department that consist of evidence-based literacy instruction and align with science-based reading research will be used in each grade level, kindergarten through 12, at each of the schools within such school division. The bill requires each local school board to post, maintain, and update as necessary on such school board's website a copy of its divisionwide literacy plan and the job description and contact information for any reading specialist employed by such school division pursuant to relevant law and for any dyslexia specialist employed by such school division. The bill requires the Department to post each divisionwide literacy plan on its website. School boards; divisionwide literacy plans; contents; posting. Requires each divisionwide literacy plan to be submitted to the Department of Education and to identify which core literacy curricula, supplemental instructional practices and programs, and intervention programs from the list developed by the Department or alternative programs approved by the Department that consist of evidence-based literacy instruction and align with science-based reading research will be used in each grade level, kindergarten through 12, at each of the schools within such school division. The bill requires each local school board to post, maintain, and update as necessary on such school board's website a copy of its divisionwide literacy plan and the job description and contact information for any reading specialist employed by such school division pursuant to relevant law and for any dyslexia specialist employed by such school division. The bill requires the Department to post each divisionwide literacy plan on its website.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2138
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Income tax; business interest; qualified business income deduction; corporate rate reduction. Increases from 30 percent to 50 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § 163(j) of the Internal Revenue Code beginning in taxable year 2024. The bill allows an individual income tax deduction in an amount equal to 50 percent of certain federal qualified business income deductions, excluding qualified real estate investment trust dividends. The bill also reduces from six percent to five percent the corporate income tax rate beginning in taxable year 2023. Income tax; business interest; qualified business income deduction; corporate rate reduction. Increases from 30 percent to 50 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § 163(j) of the Internal Revenue Code beginning in taxable year 2024. The bill allows an individual income tax deduction in an amount equal to 50 percent of certain federal qualified business income deductions, excluding qualified real estate investment trust dividends. The bill also reduces from six percent to five percent the corporate income tax rate beginning in taxable year 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2139
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
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Prescription refills; insulin; authority of pharmacists to refill prescriptions. Allows pharmacists to refill prescriptions for insulin without authorization from the prescriber in emergencies. Prescription refills; insulin; authority of pharmacists to refill prescriptions. Allows pharmacists to refill prescriptions for insulin without authorization from the prescriber in emergencies.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2140
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine at early childhood care and education entities; scope. Limits, in the context of early childhood care and education entities, the requirement for the implementation of policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine to child day centers. Under current law, such requirement applies to all early childhood care and education entities, which include child day centers, family day homes, and family day systems serving children younger than the age of five. The bill also requires the Board of Education to amend its regulations to require each family day home provider or at least one other caregiver employed by such provider in the family day home to be trained in the administration of epinephrine and to notify the parents of each child who receives care in such family day home whether the provider stores an appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine in the residence or home in which the family day home operates.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2141
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Owners of firearms; use of firearm by minor in commission of crime or to cause bodily injury; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for an owner of a firearm, as defined in the bill, who (i) allows a minor to possess such firearm and such minor uses such firearm (a) in the commission of a crime or (b) to intentionally or with gross negligence cause bodily injury to himself or another person, or (ii) knows or reasonably should know that a minor is in close proximity, as defined in the bill, to such firearm as to allow such minor to possess or transport such firearm in violation of law and the minor uses such firearm (a) in the commission of a crime or (b) to cause bodily injury to himself or another person. The bill elevates the penalty to a Class 5 felony if such owner of a firearm knows or reasonably should have known that such minor has been charged with or convicted of or adjudicated delinquent of a violent crime or has been the subject of a school-initiated threat assessment.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2142
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Program; eligibility; high-demand fields. Defines, for the purpose of determining the eligibility for financial assistance under the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Program of an individual enrolled in a certain program that leads to an occupation in a high-demand field, the term "high-demand field" as (i) a discipline or field in which there is a shortage of skilled workers to fill current and anticipated additional job vacancies, (ii) the K-12 teaching field, including teaching in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, or (iii) the special education teaching field. Under current law, the definition of "high-demand field" is limited to a discipline or field in which there is a shortage of skilled workers to fill current and anticipated additional job vacancies.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2143
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Refer
1/30/23
Department of Education; Teach for Virginia Loan Repayment Assistance Fund and Program established. Establishes the Teach for Virginia Loan Repayment Assistance Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of recruiting and retaining teachers in communities and subject areas in which they are needed the most by providing on a competitive basis an annual renewable grant of up to $5,000 toward loan repayment assistance to any teacher licensed by the Board of Education who has certain student loan debt, who is currently employed by a local school division in the Commonwealth, and who, for at least one year immediately preceding application, has taught in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth in a critical shortage area identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to relevant law or in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth in which the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch is higher than the statewide average percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2144
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States and who are eligible for United States citizenship or individuals granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police and all police officers of any locality, all deputy sheriffs and jail officers in the Commonwealth, and all law-enforcement officers. The bill allows any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers to hire, recruit, or refer an individual who is a citizen of the United States over another individual who meets such qualifications if such individuals are equally qualified. Current law allows only citizens of the United States to qualify for the named positions; the citizenship requirement can be waived only by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for good cause shown, upon the request of a sheriff or chief of police or the director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2145
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Standards of Learning assessments; English language learner students; parental opt out; parental notification; translation; report. Requires each local school board to ensure that the parent of each English language learner student is notified of the option to not have his child take any Standards of Learning assessment. The bill requires such notification to be made in the parent's preferred language and, in the case of the parent of a high school student, to include a detailed explanation of the implications of such a decision on the student's ability to satisfy high school graduation requirements. The bill also requires the Department of Education to review and make recommendations on the feasibility of translating certain Standards of Learning assessments into native languages predominantly spoken by English language learner students in the Commonwealth and administering such translated assessments to certain English language learner students in lieu of the associated Standards of Learning assessments written in the English language and to submit to the Governor, the Board of Education, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023, a report containing the findings of its review and its recommendations.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2146
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Virginia Board of Social Work; licensed clinical social worker candidates; licensure by reciprocity; workgroup; report. Directs the Virginia Board of Social Work to convene a workgroup to examine the feasibility of licensure by reciprocity with other jurisdictions. Under the bill, the Board shall submit a report to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2147
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Board of Pharmacy; translated directions for use of prescriptions; report. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to convene a work group to study the provision of translated directions for the use of prescriptions. The bill directs the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by December 1, 2023. Board of Pharmacy; translated directions for use of prescriptions; report. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to convene a work group to study the provision of translated directions for the use of prescriptions. The bill directs the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by December 1, 2023.