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Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills

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Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1443

Introduced
12/20/22  
Refer
12/20/22  
Report Pass
1/27/23  
Engrossed
2/1/23  
Public school funds; state share for basic aid; basic aid and supplemental basic aid payment limit. Removes the limitation on any school division qualifying for adjustment of state share of aid that capped the sum of the basic aid payment and any supplemental basic aid payment to the basic aid payment appropriated to such locality by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1444

Introduced
12/20/22  
Refer
12/20/22  
Report Pass
1/27/23  
Engrossed
2/1/23  
Elections; voter identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. Elections; voter identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1445

Introduced
12/21/22  
Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses and odor of marijuana; exclusion of evidence. Removes provisions prohibiting a law-enforcement officer from stopping a motor vehicle for operating (i) with an expired registration sticker prior to the first day of the fourth month after the original expiration date; (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment; (iii) without tail lights, brake lights, or a supplemental high mount stop light; (iv) without lighted headlights displayed when so required; (v) with certain tinting films, signs, posters, stickers, or decals; (vi) with objects or other equipment suspended so as to obstruct the driver's view; or (vii) with an expired inspection prior to the first day of the fourth month after the original expiration date and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions. The bill also authorizes a law-enforcement officer to lawfully stop, search, or seize a person, place, or thing or a search warrant to be issued based solely on the odor of marijuana if such odor creates a reasonable suspicion of a violation of the law prohibiting driving while intoxicated. Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses and odor of marijuana; exclusion of evidence. Removes provisions prohibiting a law-enforcement officer from stopping a motor vehicle for operating (i) with an expired registration sticker prior to the first day of the fourth month after the original expiration date; (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment; (iii) without tail lights, brake lights, or a supplemental high mount stop light; (iv) without lighted headlights displayed when so required; (v) with certain tinting films, signs, posters, stickers, or decals; (vi) with objects or other equipment suspended so as to obstruct the driver's view; or (vii) with an expired inspection prior to the first day of the fourth month after the original expiration date and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions. The bill also authorizes a law-enforcement officer to lawfully stop, search, or seize a person, place, or thing or a search warrant to be issued based solely on the odor of marijuana if such odor creates a reasonable suspicion of a violation of the law prohibiting driving while intoxicated.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1446

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
1/17/23  
Refer
1/17/23  
Report Pass
1/25/23  
Engrossed
1/30/23  
Refer
2/1/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Report Pass
2/14/23  
Enrolled
2/20/23  
Chaptered
3/24/23  
Minimum staffing standards for certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions. Sets nursing staffing requirements for certified nursing facilities, imposes administrative sanctions on a certified nursing facility if it does not comply with the staffing requirements, provides for exemptions to the administrative sanctions under certain circumstances, and directs the promulgation of regulations consistent with the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1447

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/27/23  
Refer
1/31/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Engrossed
2/13/23  
Engrossed
2/15/23  
Enrolled
2/20/23  
Chaptered
3/22/23  
Administration of controlled substances; emergency medical services providers. Allows persons who are employed or engaged at a medical care facility who have a valid emergency medical services provider certification issued by the Board of Health as a requirement of being employed or engaged at the medical care facility to administer drugs and devices at the medical care facility pursuant to an oral or written order or standing protocol.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1448

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
1/18/23  
Engrossed
1/25/23  
Department of Education; recommendations; model policies; selection and removal of public school library materials. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with local school boards, public school librarians, parents of public school students, and other interested stakeholders, to make recommendations to the General Assembly, the Board of Education, and local school boards no later than September 1, 2024, on the adoption of model policies for the selection and removal of books and other audiovisual materials available to students in public school libraries. Department of Education; recommendations; model policies; selection and removal of public school library materials. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with local school boards, public school librarians, parents of public school students, and other interested stakeholders, to make recommendations to the General Assembly, the Board of Education, and local school boards no later than September 1, 2024, on the adoption of model policies for the selection and removal of books and other audiovisual materials available to students in public school libraries.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1449

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/27/23  
Refer
1/31/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Enrolled
2/15/23  
Chaptered
3/16/23  
Secretary of Health and Human Resources; administration of prescription medication by emergency medical services providers. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to consider adopting a process to allow emergency medical services providers to administer prescription medication to persons under certain circumstances.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1450

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
2/2/23  
Engrossed
2/6/23  
Refer
2/8/23  
Report Pass
2/16/23  
Enrolled
2/23/23  
Chaptered
3/22/23  
Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability" and "impairment." The bill contains technical amendments. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Disability Commission.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1451

Introduced
12/21/22  
Pet shops; posting of information about dogs; civil penalty. Provides for the assessment of a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation when (i) any owner of a pet shop that sells dogs does not maintain a written record for each dog in its possession containing certain information or (ii) a pet shop that sells dogs fails to post a notice stating that USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspection reports are available prior to purchase. Currently, such violations are subject to the enforcement provisions of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1452

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
1/27/23  
Refer
1/27/23  
Report Pass
2/3/23  
Engrossed
2/6/23  
Refer
2/8/23  
Report Pass
2/15/23  
Report Pass
2/20/23  
Engrossed
2/22/23  
Engrossed
2/23/23  
Enrolled
3/7/23  
Chaptered
3/26/23  
Appointment of sworn unit investigators to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Allows the Attorney General to designate up to 30 persons in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as sworn unit investigators, sworn only to enforce the provisions of law related to the provision and receipt of medical assistance services in the Commonwealth. The bill defines sworn unit investigators as law-enforcement officers and specifies that sworn unit investigators will remain subject to the federal requirements authorizing State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and are required to notify and request assistance from the State Police or the local law-enforcement agency in order to execute a search warrant issued for a place of abode. Appointment of sworn unit investigators to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Allows the Attorney General to designate up to 30 persons in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as sworn unit investigators, sworn only to enforce the provisions of law related to the provision and receipt of medical assistance services in the Commonwealth. The bill defines sworn unit investigators as law-enforcement officers and specifies that sworn unit investigators will remain subject to the federal requirements authorizing State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and are required to notify and request assistance from the State Police or the local law-enforcement agency in order to execute a search warrant issued for a place of abode.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1453

Introduced
12/21/22  
Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable permanent farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and to display the farm use placard on the vehicle at all times. Under current law, such requirement will become effective July 1, 2023. The bill reinstates the authority of any law-enforcement officer to inquire about the address or real property parcel identification number of the farm or lands with which the exempt vehicle is associated. Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable permanent farm use placard from the Department of Motor Vehicles and to display the farm use placard on the vehicle at all times. Under current law, such requirement will become effective July 1, 2023. The bill reinstates the authority of any law-enforcement officer to inquire about the address or real property parcel identification number of the farm or lands with which the exempt vehicle is associated.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1454

Introduced
12/21/22  
Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria—holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child—by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-aged child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends. Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria—holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child—by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-aged child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1455

Introduced
12/21/22  
Refer
12/21/22  
Report Pass
2/3/23  
Engrossed
2/6/23  
Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, to another person without such person's knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder of the first degree by poison. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the first degree by poison.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1456

Introduced
12/22/22  
Refer
12/22/22  
Report Pass
1/25/23  
Engrossed
1/30/23  
Refer
2/1/23  
Report Pass
2/8/23  
Enrolled
2/14/23  
Chaptered
3/27/23  
Income tax; pass-through entities. Makes changes to the elective entity level tax on pass-through entities effective beginning with taxable year 2021. The bill would impose the tax only on the share of income, gain, loss, or deduction attributable to eligible owners as opposed to imposing the tax on the entire entity. The bill defines "eligible owner" as an owner of a pass-through entity that is a natural person, estate, or trust. The bill also removes the requirement that to qualify for the tax election a pass-through entity must be 100 percent owned by natural persons or persons eligible to be shareholders in an S corporation.
VA

Virginia 2023 Regular Session

Virginia House Bill HB1457

Introduced
12/22/22  
Refer
12/22/22  
Report Pass
1/24/23  
Engrossed
1/27/23  
Refer
1/31/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Enrolled
2/20/23  
Chaptered
3/23/23  
Golf carts and utility vehicles; Town of Stony Creek. Adds the Town of Stony Creek to the list of towns that may authorize the operation of golf carts and utility vehicles on designated public highways despite not having established their own police departments.

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