Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 152)
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1395
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Marine Resources Commission; permits; navigable channels. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any permit for (i) the use of state-owned bottomlands that would obstruct any marked or unmarked navigable channel regularly used by boaters or (ii) any oyster reef or aquacultural float in the Lynnhaven River within 300 feet of any marked or unmarked navigable channel.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1396
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person who conspires or acts in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more retail mercantile establishments, with a value exceeding $5,000 aggregated over a 90-day period, with the intent to sell such retail property for monetary or other gain, and who takes or causes such retail property to be placed in the control of a retail property fence or other person and either (i) receives or possesses any retail property that has been obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments while knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe the property was unlawfully obtained or (ii) conspires or acts in concert with two or more other persons as an organizer, supervisor, financier, leader, or manager to engage for profit in a scheme or course of conduct to effectuate the transfer or sale of property obtained by simple larceny from one or more retail mercantile establishments. The bill defines the terms retail mercantile establishment, retail property, and retail property fence. The bill also establishes the Organized Retail Crime Fund to be administered by the Attorney General solely for the purposes of awarding grants to attorneys for the Commonwealth and law-enforcement agencies to investigate, indict, and prosecute violations of organized retail theft and associated fraud and property crimes.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1397
Introduced
1/10/23
Refer
1/10/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Health Insurance Reform Commission; review of essential health benefits plan. Requires that the Health Insurance Reform Commission review the essential health benefits benchmark plan and establish a process for such review. The bill requires the Commission, in coordination with the Bureau of Insurance, to conduct a review of the essential health benefits benchmark plan in 2025 and every five years thereafter. The bill requires during such review (i) the Bureau to convene a stakeholder work group to make recommendations to the Commission, (ii) the Bureau to estimate the effects of certain referred legislation on the costs of health coverage in the Commonwealth, (iii) the Commission to determine if any changes are to be made to the benchmark plan and to identify such changes, (iv) the Bureau to conduct an actuarial analysis of any changes identified by the Commission, and (v) the Commission to determine which changes will be recommended and to make a recommendation to the General Assembly in the form of a bill that directs the Bureau to select a new benchmark plan that includes any such changes at the next regular session of the General Assembly. The bill (a) requires public hearings to be held throughout the process, (b) establishes a timeline for each step of the process, and (c) requires the Bureau to maintain a website to convey relevant information regarding the process to the public. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1398
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Department of Motor Vehicles; driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or a combination thereof; data collection and reporting. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to collect and disseminate, on an annual basis, statewide and locality-level data related to driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or a combination thereof. The bill requires the Department to submit an annual report on the data collected on or before October 1 to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the Virginia State Crime Commission and to make such data available to the public on the website of the Department. The bill provides that the Department shall not be required to submit the first annual report prior to October 1, 2024, and that the first annual report shall include data from calendar year 2019 through calendar year 2023. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1399
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Engrossed
2/20/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Health insurance; essential health benefits benchmark plan. Requires the Bureau of Insurance to select a new essential health benefits benchmark plan for the 2025 plan year that includes, in addition to the essential health benefits package included in the existing benchmark plan, coverage for prosthetic devices and components and formula and enteral nutrition products as medicine. The bill contains an emergency clause. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Health Insurance Reform Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1400
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Marine Resources Commission; permits; electronic notification. Requires the Commissioner of the Marine Resources Commission to ensure that for any project under consideration for a permit issued by the Commission for any floating aquaculture or oyster broodstock reef project the Commission sends public notice electronically to any business, residence, or civic organization that has requested to be added to the Commission's public notice email list.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1401
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Virginia Resources Authority; purpose; community development and housing projects. Adds community development projects related to the production and preservation of housing, including housing for persons and families of low and moderate income, to those projects that the Virginia Resources Authority may finance. The bill directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist the Authority with determining which local governments are to receive grants from the Authority for such projects.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1402
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/21/23
Chaptered
3/26/23
Passed
3/26/23
Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records; repeal. Repeals the statute providing for the limitation on the dissemination of criminal history record information related to the possession of marijuana and the statute related to automatic sealing for mistaken identity or unauthorized use of identifying information. The bill also repeals the provisions related to the automatic and petition-based expungement of former marijuana offenses and instead provides for the sealing of such offenses. The bill also removes the provisions related to the automatic sealing of underage possession of alcohol offenses and instead provides for petition-based sealing of such offenses. Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records; repeal. Repeals the statute providing for the limitation on the dissemination of criminal history record information related to the possession of marijuana and the statute related to automatic sealing for mistaken identity or unauthorized use of identifying information. The bill also repeals the provisions related to the automatic and petition-based expungement of former marijuana offenses and instead provides for the sealing of such offenses. The bill also removes the provisions related to the automatic sealing of underage possession of alcohol offenses and instead provides for petition-based sealing of such offenses. The bill creates an electronic, name-based criminal history record search to be used when an expungement or sealing petition is filed and requires the court to maintain a copy of a sealing order and send an electronic notification, rather than an order as current law requires, to the Department of State Police after an offense is sealed. The bill also allows courts and attorneys for the Commonwealth to access sealed records in instances where the court or parties failed to strictly comply with sealing procedures or an order for sealing was entered contrary to law and clarifies that a petition for sealing can only include offenses that arose out of the same transaction or occurrence. The bill makes additional changes to the processes for expungement and sealing, including updates to the process of forwarding a petitioner's criminal history record to the court and maintaining expungement pleadings under seal. The bill provides a petition process by which the person who was charged with an offense that was ordered to be expunged may request access to such expunged court or police record. The repeal of the statute related to the limitation on the dissemination of criminal history record information related to the possession of marijuana and various other provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of the earlier of (i) the date on which the processes to seal criminal history record information and court records pursuant to Chapters 524 and 542 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I, become effective or (ii) July 1, 2025. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1403
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Income tax subtraction; professional firefighter pension. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2023, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2024, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2025 and each year thereafter. The bill defines firefighter benefits to include retirement income related to firefighting services and benefits paid to the surviving spouse of a firefighter whose death occurred in the line of duty.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1404
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/15/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; purpose; membership; powers and duties. Renames the School Readiness Committee as the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education and makes several changes to the Commission, including adjusting its purpose, increasing and adjusting its membership, and establishing eight enumerated powers and duties for the Commission.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1405
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Engrossed
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Engrossed
2/25/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
4/12/23
Income tax; rolling conformity; report. Provides that Virginia shall generally conform to federal tax laws on a rolling basis, meaning that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to federal income tax law as soon as Congress enacts them on or after January 1, 2023. However, the bill provides that Virginia shall not conform to (i) any changes in a single act of Congress with an impact of more than $15 million on revenues in the year in which the amendment was enacted or any of the next four years and (ii) all amendments in a year with a cumulative projected impact of more than $75 million in the year in which the amendments were enacted or any of the next four years. For any amendment enacted on or after January 1, 2024, the $15 million per act impact threshold shall be adjusted annually by the change in the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) for the previous year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1406
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
2/2/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/13/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Behavior analysts; assistant behavior analysts; licensure criteria; certifying entities. Provides in the criteria for licensure as a behavior analyst or assistant behavior analyst established by the Board of Medicine that certain documentation must be provided by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board or its successor. Under current law, such documentation must be provided by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board or any other entity that is nationally accredited to certify practitioners of behavior analysis.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1407
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Department of Social Services; assisted living facility regulations; facilities with fewer than 25 residents. Requires the Department of Social Services to amend regulations affecting assisted living facilities with fewer than 25 residents to meet adjusted requirements for staff training and for the minimum age for staff employment.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1408
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/20/23
Refer
2/13/23
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax. This bill is a recommendation of the Commission on School Construction and Modernization.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Senate Bill SB1409
Introduced
1/11/23
Refer
1/11/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Medicare supplement policies for certain individuals under age 65. Requires each insurer issuing Medicare supplement policies or certificates in the Commonwealth to offer the opportunity of enrolling in at least one of its issued Medicare supplement policies or certificates to any individual under age 65 who resides in the Commonwealth, is enrolled in Medicare Part A and B, and is eligible for Medicare by reason of disability, including individuals with end-stage renal disease. Effective January 1, 2024, the bill also prohibits an insurer from charging individuals who become eligible for Medicare by reason of disability and who are under 65 years of age premium rates for any Medicare supplement plan or certificate offered by the issuer that exceed the premium rates charged for such plan to individuals who are 65 years of age.