Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2236
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Refer
1/30/23
Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; Secured Schools Program and Fund. Establishes the Secured Schools Program and Secured Schools Program Fund, established by and implemented by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, as a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning notification and emergency broadcast system for each public safety answering point (PSAP) in the Commonwealth to (i) allow elementary or secondary school faculty to alert the local PSAP of an imminent threat to public safety within the elementary or secondary school and (ii) alert administration at each elementary and secondary school located within such PSAP's service area in the case of an imminent threat to public safety within the proximity boundary of the elementary or secondary school, as established by school administrators and local law enforcement. The bill allows such alerts to be issued by means of website announcements; email notices; phone, cellular phone, or text messages; alert lines; public address systems; panic buttons; or any other means of communication. The bill directs the Department to adopt regulations governing the implementation of the Program, in accordance with criteria provided in the bill, and establish criteria for funding the Program through disbursements from the Fund. Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; Secured Schools Program and Fund. Establishes the Secured Schools Program and Secured Schools Program Fund, established by and implemented by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, as a comprehensive, prompt, and reliable first warning notification and emergency broadcast system for each public safety answering point (PSAP) in the Commonwealth to (i) allow elementary or secondary school faculty to alert the local PSAP of an imminent threat to public safety within the elementary or secondary school and (ii) alert administration at each elementary and secondary school located within such PSAP's service area in the case of an imminent threat to public safety within the proximity boundary of the elementary or secondary school, as established by school administrators and local law enforcement. The bill allows such alerts to be issued by means of website announcements; email notices; phone, cellular phone, or text messages; alert lines; public address systems; panic buttons; or any other means of communication. The bill directs the Department to adopt regulations governing the implementation of the Program, in accordance with criteria provided in the bill, and establish criteria for funding the Program through disbursements from the Fund.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2237
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Hospital price transparency; private right of action; Hospital price transparency; private right of action; patient payment disputes; noncompliance; prohibition of debt collection. Allows patients to bring an action against a hospital that is not in material compliance with hospital price transparency laws. Under the bill, if a hospital is not in material compliance with hospital price transparency laws on the date that an elective procedure, test, or service is provided to a patient by the hospital, the patient may bring an action, individually or jointly, against the hospital to recover payment of the price of the elective procedure, test, or service. Under the bill, a hospital that is not in material compliance with hospital price transparency laws on the date that an elective procedure, test, or service is provided to a patient is liable for the price of the elective procedure, test, or service provided and an additional equal amount as liquidated damages; interest accruing from the date the elective procedure, test, or service was provided; and reasonable attorney fees and costs. The bill requires the court, if it finds that the hospital knowingly was not in material compliance with hospital price transparency laws, to award the patient an amount equal to triple the amount of the price of the elective procedure, test, or service and reasonable attorney fees and costs. Under the bill, beginning July 1, 2023, whenever a dispute arises between a hospital and a patient over a patient payment amount, the hospital's list of standard charges for all items and services shall be used to determine the correct payment amount and reasonableness of the payment. The bill also prohibits a hospital, defined in the bill, or other person or entity collecting on behalf of the hospital, from initiating or pursuing collection actions against a patient or patient guarantor for debt incurred by the patient on the date or dates of service when the hospital was not in material compliance with federal hospital price transparency laws.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2238
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/14/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Precision Plastic Manufacturing Grant Fund; established. Establishes the Precision Plastic Manufacturing Grant Fund to provide up to $56 million in grants between July 1, 2027, and July 1, 2035, to a qualified company that engages in the manufacture and distribution of precision plastic products in an eligible county and that between June 1, 2022, and December 31, 2035, is expected to make a capital investment of at least $1 billion and create at least 1,761 new full-time jobs related to or supportive of its business.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2239
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Department of Health Professions; Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data Center; provision of certain information related to health care providers to the public. Directs the Department of Health Professions, through its Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data Center, to make available to the public by request any existing data on health care providers by locality, including certification type and demographic information for each provider. The bill requires that if the Department is unable to provide such information upon request, the Department must provide an explanation to the requestor as to why the information cannot be provided. Department of Health Professions; Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data Center; provision of certain information related to health care providers to the public. Directs the Department of Health Professions, through its Virginia Healthcare Workforce Data Center, to make available to the public by request any existing data on health care providers by locality, including certification type and demographic information for each provider. The bill requires that if the Department is unable to provide such information upon request, the Department must provide an explanation to the requestor as to why the information cannot be provided.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2240
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Prohibiting the sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, large-capacity firearm magazines, and silencers; penalties. Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation of this provision of the bill is a Class 6 felony. The bill also prohibits a dealer from selling, renting, trading, or transferring from his inventory an assault firearm to any person. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, purchase, or transport a large-capacity firearm magazine, as defined in the bill, and a Class 1 misdemeanor to possess such large-capacity firearm magazine. The bill provides that any person who legally owns a large-capacity firearm magazine on July 1, 2023, may retain possession of such firearm magazine until January 1, 2024, and during that time, such person shall (i) render the large-capacity firearm magazine permanently inoperable, (ii) remove the large-capacity firearm magazine from the Commonwealth, (iii) transfer the large-capacity firearm magazine to a person outside the Commonwealth who is not prohibited from possessing it, or (iv) surrender the large-capacity firearm magazine to a state or local law-enforcement agency. Finally, the bill makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, or purchase a silencer, except as provided for in the National Firearms Act.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2241
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Assault and battery of human services workers; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to commit a battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such individual is a human services worker who is engaged in the performance of his duties. The bill requires that, upon conviction, such individual's sentence shall include 15 days in jail, two days of which shall be a mandatory minimum. The bill defines "human services worker" as any full-time or part-time employee of a human resources agency, as defined in § 15.2-964, or of a political subdivision or local government responsible for providing the same services.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2242
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Elections administration; requests made pursuant to Virginia Freedom of Information Act; tolling of period for responding to certain requests. Provides that the period within which a local electoral board or general registrar is required to respond to requests made pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall be tolled when such request is (i) received on or after the first day on which absentee voting in person is available for an election and before the tenth day following the certification of such election and (ii) related to a previously conducted election until the deadline to request a recount pursuant to law has passed and, if any recount is pending in the locality thereafter, until it has been concluded.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2243
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Refer
2/3/23
Fund to Assist Localities with Translation of Essential Documents established. Establishes the Fund to Assist Localities with Translation of Essential Documents to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of making grants to local governments to address the availability of translated essential documents for those citizens and taxpayers of the Commonwealth and its localities for whom English is a second language. The bill provides that the Fund shall make grants to local governments for the purpose of translating essential documents into foreign languages.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2244
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Department of Historic Resources; appropriations for African American cemeteries and graves. Requires appropriations by the Department of Historic Resources for African American cemeteries to be allocated on the bases of (i) the number of markers in a cemetery of African Americans who were alive prior to January 1, 1900, regardless of the date of interment, and (ii) the number of markers in a cemetery of African Americans who were born on or after January 1, 1900, and interred in such cemetery prior to January 1, 1948. Under current law, such appropriations are allocated on the basis of the number of markers in a cemetery of African Americans who were interred in such cemetery prior to January 1, 1948.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2245
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Department of Taxation; free tax filing. Directs the Tax Commissioner to terminate the Virginia Free File Program and related agreement with the Consortium of Virginia. The bill also requires the Tax Commissioner to reinstate the iFile program or to develop and offer a substantially similar program that offers electronic filing services directly to Virginia individual taxpayers without monetary charge beginning in taxable year 2024. The bill contains technical amendments that remove obsolete language regarding fillable forms.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2246
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Special license plates; military service; unremarried surviving spouses. Authorizes unremarried surviving spouses of persons eligible to receive a special license plate for military service to also receive such special license plates. The law currently authorizes this for certain types of military service.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2247
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/19/23
Engrossed
1/24/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Driver improvement clinics and driver training schools. Lengthens from one year to two years the validity of and increases the cost of licenses and certifications for driver training schools that are third party testers, third party examiners for Class A driver training schools, driver improvement clinics, driver training instructors, and driver training schools, including computer-based driver education providers, and provides for concurrent expirations of licenses and certifications for such schools and their instructors. The bill authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, to issue such licenses and certifications for a validity period of between one and 24 months with a fee prorated on a monthly basis to ensure the even distribution of renewals over a calendar year. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024, except that the provision of the bill authorizing the issuance of such licenses and certifications by the Commissioner is effective in due course.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2248
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Providers of treatment for substance use disorder; use of methadone or opioid replacements; biometric certification. Requires providers of treatment for substance use disorder who administer methadone or opioid replacements as treatments to utilize biometric certification to verify the identity of the clinician and patient. Biometric certification includes iris scans of patients and either iris scans or two-finger fingerprint scans of clinicians. The bill requires the Board of Pharmacy to establish a statewide data repository for the storage of records of every transaction involving the administration of methadone or opioid replacements to a patient, with such records being held for no fewer than 10 years.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2249
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Refer
1/20/23
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to expedite, to the extent possible, the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card and the issuance of such identification and documents.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2250
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, under the direction of the Criminal Justice Services Board, to establish training standards and publish a model policy for the identification of, communication with, and facilitation of the safe return of individuals diagnosed with dementia by law-enforcement personnel. Under current law, such training standards and model policies are focused solely on individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.