Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1428
Introduced
12/15/22
Refer
12/15/22
Carrying loaded firearms in public areas prohibited; certain localities; repeal. Repeals the prohibition on carrying certain loaded shotguns and semi-automatic center-fire rifles and pistols in certain localities in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1429
Introduced
12/16/22
Refer
12/16/22
Supplementing compensation of public defender. Requires the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or employees, above the salary set by the Compensation Board to proportionally supplement the compensation of the public defender, or any of his deputies or employees, commensurate with the compensation of the attorney for the Commonwealth, or any of his deputies or employees, and to pay for such additional compensation from the funds of the county or city.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1430
Introduced
12/16/22
Refer
12/16/22
Report Pass
1/12/23
Engrossed
1/17/23
Refer
1/19/23
Virginia Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges; energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries; report. Defines EITE industries as companies that are constrained in their ability to pass through carbon costs due to international competition, companies that engage in importation of products that cause emission leakage, and critical infrastructure facilities identified by certain federal agencies. The bill directs the State Corporation Commission to establish an EITE customer exemption pilot program for non-bypassable charges in certain provisions of the Virginia Clean Economy Act related to generation of electricity from renewable and zero-carbon sources and development of offshore wind capacity. The pilot program, to be designated as the EITE Pilot Program, shall commence no later than January 1, 2024, and shall have an initial aggregate customer load not to exceed 2,000 megawatts based on each participating customer's load during the previous calendar year. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to report to the Governor and to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Commerce and Energy and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on the status of the EITE Pilot Program by March 31, 2025. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2029. Virginia Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges; energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries; report. Defines EITE industries as companies that are constrained in their ability to pass through carbon costs due to international competition, companies that engage in importation of products that cause emission leakage, and critical infrastructure facilities identified by certain federal agencies. The bill directs the State Corporation Commission to establish an EITE customer exemption pilot program for non-bypassable charges in certain provisions of the Virginia Clean Economy Act related to generation of electricity from renewable and zero-carbon sources and development of offshore wind capacity. The pilot program, to be designated as the EITE Pilot Program, shall commence no later than January 1, 2024, and shall have an initial aggregate customer load not to exceed 2,000 megawatts based on each participating customer's load during the previous calendar year. The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to report to the Governor and to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Commerce and Energy and the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor on the status of the EITE Pilot Program by March 31, 2025. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2029.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1431
Introduced
12/16/22
Refer
12/16/22
Contributory negligence bar; abolished. Provides that the negligence of a plaintiff shall not automatically bar plaintiff's recovery in any action for injury, wrongful death, or property damage unless the plaintiff's negligence is (i) a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury and (ii) greater than the aggregated total amount of negligence of all the defendants that proximately caused the plaintiff's injury. The bill further provides that any damages recoverable by the plaintiff shall be diminished by an amount that is proportionately equal to the percentage of negligent conduct of the plaintiff.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1432
Introduced
12/16/22
Refer
12/16/22
Trespass; service of process. Provides immunity from criminal trespass for any person who goes on or remains on the property of another after having been forbidden to do so by a sign or signs posted by or at the direction of a person lawfully in charge of such property, provided that the person going on or remaining on the property is authorized to serve process and is engaged in the lawful service of process.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1433
Introduced
12/16/22
Refer
12/16/22
Report Pass
1/24/23
Engrossed
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Licensure of professional counselors; Counseling Compact. Authorizes Virginia to become a signatory to the Counseling Compact. The Compact permits eligible licensed professional counselors to practice in Compact member states, provided that they are licensed in at least one member state. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024, and directs the Board of Counseling to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1434
Introduced
12/17/22
Refer
12/17/22
Student records; name change; court order required. Prohibits any school board member or school board employee from changing the name of a student enrolled in the local school division on any education record relating to such student unless the member or employee receives a change of name order for such student that was issued in accordance with relevant law.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1435
Introduced
12/17/22
Refer
12/17/22
Revocation of suspension of sentence and probation; hearing; sentencing. Requires that if an alleged violation of the terms and conditions of a suspended sentence of probation is based on a criminal offense that was committed after the date of suspension, the hearing to revoke the suspension of sentence shall be held as soon as practicable after the accused has been convicted of the criminal offense. The bill also requires that if the court revokes the suspension and imposes any or all of the period previously suspended for a violation based on a new conviction, the court shall order such sentence to run concurrently with any sentence imposed for the new criminal conviction.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1436
Introduced
12/19/22
Refer
12/19/22
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Income tax; military benefits subtraction; age restriction. Removes the age 55 or older restriction on those individuals allowed a military benefits income tax subtraction beginning with taxable year 2023.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1437
Introduced
12/19/22
Refer
12/19/22
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of systems of state highways includes the use of devices in the right-of-way of such highways for law-enforcement purposes. The bill authorizes the Department of State Police or chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install, maintain, and operate devices for law-enforcement purposes on highways maintained by VDOT. The bill requires that all data collected by such devices be purged and not retained later than 30 days after collection unless such data is being used in an active law-enforcement investigation. The bill prohibits the use of such data to enforce speed limits, traffic regulations, tolling requirements, or high-occupancy vehicle requirements. Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of systems of state highways includes the use of devices in the right-of-way of such highways for law-enforcement purposes. The bill authorizes the Department of State Police or chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install, maintain, and operate devices for law-enforcement purposes on highways maintained by VDOT. The bill requires that all data collected by such devices be purged and not retained later than 30 days after collection unless such data is being used in an active law-enforcement investigation. The bill prohibits the use of such data to enforce speed limits, traffic regulations, tolling requirements, or high-occupancy vehicle requirements.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1438
Introduced
12/19/22
Refer
12/19/22
Report Pass
1/25/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Oyster Replenishment Fund. Adds the recycling of oyster shells to the list of activities eligible to receive funds from the Oyster Replenishment Fund. The bill also allows the Fund to be used for the encouragement of oyster shell donations for oyster replenishment projects. Oyster Replenishment Fund. Adds the recycling of oyster shells to the list of activities eligible to receive funds from the Oyster Replenishment Fund. The bill also allows the Fund to be used for the encouragement of oyster shell donations for oyster replenishment projects.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1439
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Comprehensive community colleges; conditionally forgivable Comprehensive community colleges; conditionally forgivable loans for tuition and other fees and expenses. Requires each comprehensive community college to establish a process whereby admitted students may apply for a conditionally forgivable loan in an amount sufficient to cover the full cost of tuition, mandatory fees, and required textbooks or other course materials to earn a certain degree or credential at such college. The bill provides that the student is eligible for such loan if the student (i) demonstrates that the student is a single parent of a dependent child or dependent children and has a total household income that is not more than 250 percent of the current annual federal poverty guidelines; (ii) signs an agreement to (a) pursue a field of study that leads to a high-demand occupation identified by the Virginia Office of Education Economics on its high-demand occupations list, (b) earn within 30 months of initial enrollment at the comprehensive community college a degree or credential that leads to such a high-demand occupation, and (c) maintain employment in the Commonwealth in such a high-demand occupation for at least five years during the seven-year period that begins on the date on which the student earns such a degree or credential; and (iii) signs a promissory note to repay the full amount of the loan in a lump sum, without interest, 84 months from the date on which the student fails to meet any condition of the agreement signed pursuant to clause (ii). The bill requires each comprehensive community college to forgive the full amount of any such loan on the date on which the recipient demonstrates full satisfaction of the conditions of the signed agreement, as determined by the Office of the Attorney General. The bill permits any comprehensive community college that forgives such a loan to request reimbursement for the forgiven amount from the General Assembly and requires the General Assembly to establish a process and procedure for receiving and acting upon such reimbursement requests.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1440
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Finding of guilt in absentia; proof of such finding in a civil action. Requires evidence of a finding of guilt made in absentia in a criminal prosecution or traffic infraction to be admissible in a civil action whenever such finding is contended. The bill further requires the court hearing the civil case to admit evidence as to whether such finding was made if the criminal court records are silent or ambiguous as to whether such a finding occurred. These evidentiary requirements exist under current law for pleas of guilt and nolo contendere and forfeitures.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1441
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Giles County; Pulaski County. Adds Giles County and Pulaski County to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund and the Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1442
Introduced
12/20/22
Refer
12/20/22
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Engrossed
2/10/23
Engrossed
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Transient occupancy tax; administration. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually publish on its website the current transient occupancy tax rates imposed in each locality. The bill also (i) requires the tax-assessing officer of a locality to administer and enforce the assessment and collection of transient occupancy taxes from accommodations intermediaries and (ii) specifies certain return filing requirements for accommodations intermediaries. Transient occupancy tax; administration. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually publish on its website the current transient occupancy tax rates imposed in each locality. The bill also (i) requires the tax-assessing officer of a locality to administer and enforce the assessment and collection of transient occupancy taxes from accommodations intermediaries and (ii) specifies certain return filing requirements for accommodations intermediaries.