Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB592
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Income tax credit; conversion to employee ownership. Creates a nonrefundable, one-time individual and corporate income tax credit for an eligible business that (i) transfers whole or partial ownership to employees in the form of a worker cooperative, an employee stock ownership plan, an employee ownership trust, an employee equity grant program, or an employee stock purchase plan or (ii) is conducting a feasibility study for a transition to such employee ownership models. The credit is available for taxable years 2022 through 2026, is equal to up to $5,000 per eligible business that transfers ownership to employees or incurs costs for conducting a feasibility study for transferring ownership to employees during the taxable year, and includes an aggregate annual cap of $5 million.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB595
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Special Assistant to the Governor for Disability Rights Advocacy; position created; report. Creates the position of Special Assistant to the Governor for Disability Rights Advocacy (the Special Assistant) for the purpose of representing Virginians with disabilities in a comprehensive and authoritative manner by ensuring that all state agencies provide adequate services, resources, and accommodations to such persons. The bill directs the Special Assistant to submit an annual report to the Governor on or before December 1, through the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, that (i) outlines the key issues and problems discovered within state agencies that impact people with disabilities; (ii) identifies the details of any plan of action implemented by the Special Assistant to address and remediate such issues and problems; (iii) provides legislative recommendations that would improve processes and procedures across all state agencies with regard to the provision of services, resources, and accommodations to people with disabilities; and (iv) details such other matters as required by the Governor.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB622
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Custodial interrogation of a child; advisement of rights. Requires that prior to any custodial interrogation of a child by a law-enforcement officer, the child and, if no attorney is present and if no exception to the requirement that the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian be notified applies, the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian shall be advised that (i) the child has a right to remain silent; (ii) any statement the child makes can and may be used against the child; (iii) the child has a right to an attorney and that one will be appointed for the child if the child is not represented and wants representation; and (iv) the child has a right to have his parent, guardian, custodian, or attorney present during any questioning. The bill states that if a child indicates in any manner and at any stage of questioning during a custodial interrogation that he does not wish to be questioned further, the law-enforcement officer shall cease questioning. The bill also requires, before admitting into evidence any statement made by a child during a custodial interrogation, that the court find that the child knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his rights and states that no admission or confession made by a child younger than 16 years of age during a custodial interrogation may be admitted into evidence unless it was made in the presence of the child's parent, guardian, custodian, or attorney.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB635
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Inclusionary housing; zoning. Requires cities and towns in the Commonwealth to develop and promulgate housing plans that address the supply of safe, sanitary, and affordable shelter for all current and anticipated residents of their communities. Such plans must connect economic development efforts that bring new jobs to the supply of safe, sanitary, and affordable shelter for all who will fill those jobs; the location of housing and the location of mobility resources; and the availability of accredited high-quality affordable education, parks, indoor and outdoor recreation, libraries, health care, and healthy living resources, including the availability of fresh food. Such housing plans shall be reviewed and revised no less frequently than every five years. Cities and towns that promulgate a housing plan may create, implement, and enforce inclusionary housing programs applicable to new housing development and conversions of previously nonresidential uses into residential uses. Counties utilizing the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) or the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) may also follow and use these provisions to provide inclusionary housing.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB646
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Nursing home standards of care and staff requirements; regulations. Requires the State Board of Health to establish staffing and care standards in nursing homes to require a minimum of direct care services to each resident per 24-hour period as follows: (i) a minimum of 2.8 direct care hours provided by a nurse aide per resident, per day; (ii) a minimum of 1.3 direct care hours provided by a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse per resident, per day; and (iii) a minimum of 0.75 hours out of total 4.1 required direct hours provided by a registered nurse per resident, per day. The bill requires nursing homes to provide quarterly staff training on first aid, medication administration, and compliance with nursing home policies and procedures. Additionally, the bill removes language requiring that each hospital, nursing home, and certified nursing facility establish protocols for patient visits from a rabbi, priest, minister, or clergy of any religious denomination or sect during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB651
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Department of Medical Assistance Services; report on utilization of community intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to report annually by December 1 of each year to the Governor and the Chairmen of the Senate Committees on Education and Health and Finance and Appropriations and the House Committees on Health, Welfare and Institutions and Appropriations regarding utilization of community intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities in the Commonwealth and to make such report available to the public on a website maintained by the Department.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB683
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Use of canines in correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Prohibits any correctional officer, jail officer, or other employee of a state, local, or juvenile correctional facility from using a canine to extract a prisoner or juvenile from his cell unless there is a threat of death or serious bodily injury to the prisoner or juvenile, other prisoners or juveniles, or any officer or employee of the facility.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB692
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Apprenticeship Council; authority. Expands the duties of the Apprenticeship Council to include determining standards and regulations for pre-apprenticeship programs and advising the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry on how to innovate and expand apprenticeship-related instruction and opportunities across the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB698
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Refer
1/28/22
License taxes; exemptions. Authorizes localities to exempt any class of taxpayers from license taxes and fees. The bill provides that such exemption shall be made by general law and shall be uniform upon taxpayers operating in the same line of business or trade and that localities shall have discretion to determine the classes of taxpayers that shall be exempted. The bill does not apply to any severance tax that is levied as a license tax.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB699
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Glass replacement in vehicles. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations consistent with the standards established by the Auto Glass Safety Council regarding the replacement of glass in any vehicle.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB712
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Board of Pharmacy; safe sharps disposal. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to amend its regulations to require all pharmacies to provide and maintain a safe sharps disposal container on the premises of the pharmacy for public use.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB713
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Family abuse; coercive control; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to engage in coercive control, defined in the bill, of a family or household member. The bill also includes coercive control in the definition of "family abuse" used for the basis of the issuance of family abuse protective orders.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB715
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Historic Resources, and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to establish policies and procedures for consulting with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth when evaluating certain permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, or historic resources or that would have tribal implications, as defined in the bill. The bill directs the Secretary of the Commonwealth to designate an Ombudsman for Tribal Consultation to facilitate communication and consultation with Tribal Nations. The bill codifies Executive Order 82 (2021).
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB743
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Refer
1/27/22
Certificate of public need; inpatient psychiatric services and facilities. Requires the Commissioner of Health (the Commissioner) to impose conditions related to the provision of care to individuals who are the subject of a temporary detention order on certificates of public need for projects involving inpatient psychiatric services and facilities and provides that when determining the public need for a proposed project involving an inpatient psychiatric service or facility, the Commissioner shall not take into consideration existing inpatient psychiatric services or facilities or the impact of approving the application and issuing the certificate of public need for the proposed project on an existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility if the existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility does not provide an adequate amount of service to individuals who are subject to a temporary detention order, as determined by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations of the Board of Health (the Board). The bill directs the Board to adopt regulations establishing a process by which the Commissioner shall annually establish the amount of services for individuals who are subject to a temporary detention order that an existing inpatient psychiatric service or facility must provide.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB778
Introduced
1/11/22
Refer
1/11/22
Relocation of monument and memorials. Requires a locality that votes to remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover certain war monuments or memorials to initiate a process to gift the monument or memorial to a nonprofit organization that is most related to the mission and spirit of the monument or memorial, at the locality's expense. The bill provides that the placement of the monument or memorial shall be decided by an independent committee and that a majority vote by the committee as to the relocation of the memorial is binding on the locality and shall be carried out within six months from the date of the committee's decision.