Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2326
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Study; Department of Forestry; ecosystem services markets; report. Directs the Department of Forestry to conduct a study to (i) assess the opportunities for forest landowners to participate in voluntary and regulated ecosystem services markets, (ii) assess the existing scope of participation in ecosystem services markets by public and private forest landowners in the Commonwealth, and (iii) make recommendations for potential programs or resources to inform forest landowner participation in ecosystem services markets and to provide a report on its findings to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources no later than October 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2327
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced retirement benefits apply only to service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher on or after July 1, 2024, but allows an employer, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide such enhanced retirement benefits for service earned as a full-time salaried 911 dispatcher before July 1, 2024, in addition to service earned on or after that date. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2328
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; 911 dispatchers. Extends membership in the Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) to 911 dispatchers who are employed by the Department of State Police and agencies whose law-enforcement officers are eligible for membership in VaLORS. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024, and provides that such membership would apply only to service earned on or after July 1, 2024.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2329
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Refer
1/20/23
Establishment of the Care for Retired Police Canines Grant Program and Fund. Establishes the Care for Retired Police Canines Grant Program and Fund. The bill provides that the Program is established to award grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide stable funding for the veterinary care of eligible retired police canines, as defined in the bill. The bill directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to issue guidelines for the grant application process, criteria for the award of such grants, the process for disbursement of such grant funds, and limits on grant amounts.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2330
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Assault and battery; public transportation service vehicle operators; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to commit a battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such individual is an operator of a vehicle operated by a public transportation service who is engaged in the performance of his duties. The bill requires the sentence of such person, upon conviction, to prohibit such person from entering or riding in any vehicle operated by the public transportation service that employed such operator for a period of not less than six months as a term and condition of such sentence. Assault and battery; public transportation service vehicle operators; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to commit a battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such individual is an operator of a vehicle operated by a public transportation service who is engaged in the performance of his duties. The bill requires the sentence of such person, upon conviction, to prohibit such person from entering or riding in any vehicle operated by the public transportation service that employed such operator for a period of not less than six months as a term and condition of such sentence. The bill also makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to enter or ride in a vehicle operated by a public transportation service who has been prohibited to do so after being convicted of an assault and battery against an operator of a vehicle operated by a public transportation service who is engaged in the performance of his duties.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2331
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Failed
2/25/23
Animal care; seizure of animals; zoos. Adds animals located at a zoo or petting zoo, defined in the bill, with agricultural animals as exceptions to the standards for seizure or impoundment of companion animals.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2332
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Vetoed
5/12/23
Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Reduces from 100 acres to 50 acres the minimum number of contiguous acres required for a site that is not a brownfield to satisfy the acreage requirement to be considered eligible to receive a site development grant from the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program Fund by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2333
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Failed
2/25/23
Electric utilities; small modular nuclear reactors; pilot program. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to promote the development and operation of small modular nuclear reactors at the earliest reasonable time possible, with a goal of having the first small modular nuclear reactor operating by the end of 2032, and requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a small modular nuclear reactor pilot program. Under the program, any entity that holds a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct or operate one or more existing nuclear facilities at the time of the application may apply to the State Corporation Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to complete site permitting and construct and operate one or more small modular nuclear reactors. Under the bill, the pilot program will be limited to three small modular nuclear reactor sites in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to consider certain factors in considering an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a small modular nuclear reactor under the pilot program.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2334
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
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
Sales and use tax; exemption for oil and gas drilling equipment. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2024, the sunset date of the sales and use tax exemption for materials and equipment used in the drilling, extraction, or processing of natural gas or oil and the reclamation of a well area.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2335
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Virginia Retirement System; investments; environmental, social, and governance investing restricted. Provides that unless the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System can demonstrate that a social investment, defined in the bill, would provide a superior rate of return compared to a similar investment that is not a social investment with a similar time horizon and risk, neither the Board nor any external fiduciary utilized by the Board may invest or make recommendations regarding state funds for the purpose of social investment on or after July 1, 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2336
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/2/23
Report Pass
2/10/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Alcoholic beverage control; marketplace license fees. Lowers the annual state license fee from $1,000 to $500 and the annual local license tax from $200 to $100 for marketplace licenses when the license privileges are exercised during a period of six or less consecutive months and such period is specified prior to the beginning of the license year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2337
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Sports facilities; automated external defibrillator required. Requires that every sports facility, defined in the bill, in the Commonwealth have a working automated external defibrillator.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2338
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Refer
1/26/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Transit Ridership Incentive Program; funds; improving accessibility and safety. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to use up to 30 percent of available funds in the Transit Ridership Incentive Program to support local, regional, and state entities in improving the accessibility of transit bus passenger facilities and improving crime prevention and public safety for transit passengers, operators, and employees. The bill directs the Board to develop guidelines for applications for grants to any local, regional, or state public entity that supports a transit system.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2339
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Expedited diversion to court-ordered treatment in lieu of criminal adjudication. Establishes a process where a defendant who is charged with certain misdemeanor violations and appears to have a mental illness, and such charged conduct appears to be associated with that mental illness, may be considered for transfer from criminal court to civil process for court-ordered mental health treatment without any adjudication on such misdemeanor charges.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB2340
Introduced
1/12/23
Refer
1/12/23
Report Pass
1/26/23
Engrossed
1/31/23
Refer
2/2/23
Motor vehicle license plates and registration; taxes and penalties. Increases from $100 to $150 the maximum license tax that a locality is authorized to impose annually on motor vehicles not displaying current license plates. The bill increases from up to $250 to up to $350 the penalty on motor vehicles that have not been registered within the first 30 days of an individual's residency in the Commonwealth.