Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1413
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Industrial development authorities; safe and affordable housing; activation status of housing authority. Allows an industrial development authority to promote safe and affordable housing with respect to facilities used primarily for single or multifamily residences regardless of the activation status of the housing authority in such industrial development authority's locality.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1414
Introduced
12/6/22
Refer
12/6/22
Form of ballot; party identification of candidates. Extends to elections for local and constitutional offices the requirement that candidates who have been nominated by a political party or in a primary election be identified on the ballot by name of their political party. Currently, this requirement applies only to federal, statewide, and General Assembly elections.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1415
Introduced
12/7/22
Refer
12/7/22
Report Pass
1/30/23
Refer
1/30/23
Richard Bland College; governance. Removes the authority of the board of visitors of The College of William and Mary in Virginia to supervise, manage, and control Richard Bland College and establishes the 12-member board of visitors of Richard Bland College to generally direct the affairs of the College, including appointing all teachers and fixing their salaries, providing for the employment of other personnel as required, and caring for and preserving all property belonging to the College.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1416
Introduced
12/8/22
Refer
12/8/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Engrossed
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Testing persons charged with certain crimes for sexually transmitted infections. Provides that as soon as practicable following arrest, or following indictment, arrest by warrant, or service of a petition in the case of a juvenile, the attorney for the Commonwealth may request after consultation with any complaining witness, or shall request upon the request of the complaining witness, that any person charged with certain specified crimes be requested to submit to testing for sexually transmitted infections, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill provides that if the person charged refuses to submit to testing or the competency of the person to submit to testing is at issue, a court finding probable cause that the complaining witness was exposed to body fluids of the person charged in a manner that may transmit a sexually transmitted infection shall order such testing. The bill also provides that the results of such tests shall not be admissible as evidence in any criminal proceeding.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1417
Introduced
12/12/22
Refer
12/12/22
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Tax on cigars. Modifies the statutory tax rate imposed on selling or distributing cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller by setting such rate at 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or $0.30 per cigar, whichever is less. Under current law, the effective rate is 20 percent of the manufacturer's sales price due to language in the Appropriation Act which doubles the statutory rate. Tax on cigars. Modifies the statutory tax rate imposed on selling or distributing cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller by setting such rate at 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or $0.30 per cigar, whichever is less. Under current law, the effective rate is 20 percent of the manufacturer's sales price due to language in the Appropriation Act which doubles the statutory rate.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1418
Introduced
12/12/22
Refer
12/12/22
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Real Estate Appraiser Board; appraisal experience. Requires the Real Estate Appraiser Board to accept evidence of the successful completion of a Licensed Residential PAREA Program or Certified Residential PAREA Program to satisfy the experience requirements established in regulations as a condition of licensure as a licensed residential real estate appraiser, certified residential real estate appraiser, or certified general real estate appraiser. The bill defines "Certified Residential PAREA Program" or "Licensed Residential PAREA Program" as a Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal experience training program approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board of the Appraisal Foundation that utilizes simulated experience training and serves as an alternative to the traditional supervisor and trainee method of achieving appraisal experience.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1419
Introduced
12/12/22
Refer
12/12/22
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program; extension of eligibility. Extends eligibility for the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program to the lineal and collateral descendants of persons who were residing in jurisdictions in Virginia in which the public schools were closed to avoid desegregation between 1954 and 1964 and whose educations were affected by the school closings. Currently, only persons who resided in such jurisdictions at the time of the school closings are eligible for the program.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1420
Introduced
12/13/22
Refer
12/13/22
Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1421
Introduced
12/13/22
Refer
12/13/22
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Breeders Fund; disbursements to certain breeders and owners of horses. Provides that the Virginia Breeders Fund shall disburse amounts to breeders of Virginia-bred horses and to the owners of Virginia sires of Virginia-bred horses that finish first, second, or third in races at designated race meetings. Under current law, the disbursements only go to the winners of such races.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1422
Introduced
12/14/22
Refer
12/14/22
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Concealed handgun permit; demonstrated competence. Adds a firearms safety or training course conducted by the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) or by a USCCA-certified firearms instructor, or any firearms safety or training course or class available to the general public offered by a law-enforcement agency, institution of higher education, or private or public institution or organization or firearms training school utilizing instructors certified by the USCCA to those programs that satisfy the demonstration of competence requirement for the issuance of a Virginia resident or nonresident concealed handgun permit.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1423
Introduced
12/14/22
Refer
12/14/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; purpose; membership; powers and duties. Renames the School Readiness Committee as the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education and makes several changes to the Commission, including adjusting its purpose, increasing and adjusting its membership, and establishing eight enumerated powers and duties for the Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1424
Introduced
12/14/22
Refer
12/14/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Refer
1/23/23
National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; name; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund, expands eligibility for incentive grant awards from such Fund pursuant to such Program from solely teachers who have obtained national certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to (i) all public school staff who are candidates for initial national certification or maintenance of national certification to cover certain costs of obtaining or maintaining such certification and (ii) all public school staff who have successfully obtained or maintained such certification. The bill also declares eligible for an annual incentive grant award in the amount of $7,500 all public school staff who have obtained or maintained such certification. Current law declares eligible for an annual incentive grant award of $5,000 in the first year and $2,500 in each subsequent year all teachers who have obtained or maintained such certification.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1425
Introduced
12/14/22
Refer
12/14/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Conservators of the peace; search warrants; military criminal investigative organizations. Provides that a special agent of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division and United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations shall be a conservator of the peace and may serve a search warrant jointly with a Virginia law-enforcement officer. Under current law, of the federal military investigation offices, only a special agent of the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service has this authority. The bill contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1426
Introduced
12/14/22
Refer
12/14/22
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
Board of Medicine; continuing education; human trafficking. Requires that, of the hours of continuing education required for renewal of licensure, any licensee of the Board of Medicine may be required by the Board of Medicine to complete up to two hours of continuing learning activities or courses in a specific subject area. Under the bill, if the Board of Medicine designates a subject area for continuing learning activities or courses, the first subject area shall be on the topic of human trafficking.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1427
Introduced
12/15/22
Refer
12/15/22
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Control of firearms by localities. Removes a locality's authority to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (ii) any recreation or community center facility operated by the locality; or (iii) any public street, road, alley, or sidewalk or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public and is being used by or is adjacent to a permitted event or an event that would otherwise require a permit.