Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 17)
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1578
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Income tax subtraction; manufactured home park sale. Exempts income earned from the sale of a manufactured home park, as defined in relevant law, to either (i) an entity that is owned by at least 25 percent of the residents of such manufactured home park or (ii) an organization exempt from taxation under ยง 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, provided that such sale terms require the guaranteed maintenance of the property as a manufactured home park for a period of at least 30 years following the sale.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1579
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Purchase or transportation of firearm by persons convicted of operating a boat or vehicle while intoxicated prohibited; penalty. Provides that any person who, within a five-year period, has been convicted of two misdemeanor driving or boating while intoxicated offenses shall be ineligible to purchase or transport a handgun.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1580
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
State Corporation Commission vacancy; extensions. Provides that, in the event of a vacancy on the State Corporation Commission, certain provisions requiring the Commission to act on a filing by an electric utility within less than 12 months from the date of such filing shall be extended to 12 months from the date of such filing.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1581
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Child custody, visitation, or support proceedings; educational seminars approved by Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Provides that when the parties to any petition where a child whose custody, visitation, or support is contested are required show proof that they have attended an educational seminar or other like program conducted by a qualified person or organization, such educational seminar or other like program shall be one that has been approved by the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Current law provides that such educational seminars or other like programs are approved by the court. This bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council of Virginia and the Committee on District Courts.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1582
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Claims; David Wayne Kingrea; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $58,942 to David Wayne Kingrea, who was wrongly convicted of indecent liberties with a minor. Claims; David Wayne Kingrea; compensation for wrongful incarceration. Provides relief in the amount of $58,942 to David Wayne Kingrea, who was wrongly convicted of indecent liberties with a minor.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1583
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Peeping or spying into a dwelling or enclosure; electronic device; penalty. Prohibits any person from knowingly and intentionally causing an unmanned aircraft system to secretly or furtively peep, spy, or attempt to peep or spy into or through a window, door, or other aperture of any building, structure, or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as a dwelling, whether or not such building, structure, or enclosure is permanently situated or transportable and whether or not such occupancy is permanent or temporary, without just cause, under circumstances that would violate the occupant's reasonable expectation of privacy. Peeping or spying into a dwelling or enclosure; electronic device; penalty. Prohibits any person from knowingly and intentionally causing an unmanned aircraft system to secretly or furtively peep, spy, or attempt to peep or spy into or through a window, door, or other aperture of any building, structure, or other enclosure occupied or intended for occupancy as a dwelling, whether or not such building, structure, or enclosure is permanently situated or transportable and whether or not such occupancy is permanent or temporary, without just cause, under circumstances that would violate the occupant's reasonable expectation of privacy.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1584
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Storage, preservation, and retention of biological evidence Storage, preservation, and retention of biological evidence in felony cases. Requires any governmental entity that possesses any biological evidence, defined in the bill, collected or obtained during an investigation of a felony case to ensure the storage, preservation, and retention of such biological evidence or representative samples for such period of time that (i) the defendant remains incarcerated or under any registration or supervision requirement in connection with the felony conviction or (ii) until the expiration of the statute of limitations for the alleged offense has lapsed in such case where a felony remains unsolved or no charges have been filed. The bill requires biological evidence to be preserved in a condition that is suitable for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing and analysis, and such evidence shall be made available for DNA testing. The bill requires the court, upon motion by the defendant, to order the Department of Forensic Science to submit an inventory of the biological evidence that has been preserved in the connection with the defendant's case, a copy of which shall be provided to the defendant. The bill requires the chief evidence custodian of a governmental entity to submit an affidavit if such government entity cannot locate biological evidence that it is required to preserve, under penalty of perjury, that describes the biological evidence that cannot be located and details the efforts made to locate such evidence. The bill provides remedies the court may order if it finds that biological evidence has not been properly preserved, including (i) granting a new trial; (ii) dismissing the charges; (iii) reducing the sentence; (iv) vacating the defendant's conviction; or (v) entering a finding that a presumption exists that the evidence would have been exculpatory to the defendant because the biological evidence has not been preserved properly.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1585
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Wearing of hard body armor in public; exceptions; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor, for any person to wear hard body armor, as defined in the bill, anywhere other than while on his own private property. The bill provides exceptions for (i) any law-enforcement officer, conservator of the peace, or member of the Armed Forces of the United States or of the National Guard of Virginia or of any other state while engaged in the performance of his official duties or (ii) any person engaged in such other profession as designated on a list published by the Department of Criminal Justice Services while engaged in the performance of his official duties. The bill also requires the Department to adopt regulations establishing criteria for eligible professions requiring the use of hard body armor during the performance of their official duties and to publish the list of such eligible professions on the Department's website.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1586
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Wrongful incarceration; compensation. Provides that any person who is convicted of a felony by a county or city circuit court of the Commonwealth and is wrongfully incarcerated for such felony shall receive, in addition to the compensation for wrongful incarceration specified under current law, not less than $25,000 for each year (i) of imprisonment after being sentenced to death; (ii) served on parole or postrelease supervision; or (iii) such person was required to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1587
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
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
Passed
3/23/23
Commissioner of Highways; entering into certain agreements; civil penalties; agents. Adds contractors to the list of entities that the Commissioner of Highways, in agreement with Fairfax County, may authorize to act as agents for the enforcement of provisions related to signs or advertising within the limits of highways and the collection of associated civil penalties for violations of such provisions. The bill also requires such contractors to comply with applicable law and makes them subject to a right to reclaim a lawfully placed sign by the sign owner if such sign was confiscated in violation of the granted authority.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1588
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Refer
2/1/23
Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund created. Creates the Electric Vehicle Rural Infrastructure Program and Fund to assist private developers with non-utility costs associated with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations. The bill provides that a private developer is eligible to receive grants of 70 percent of such non-utility costs for electric vehicle charging stations installed in a city or county that meets the criteria of a distressed locality as provided in the bill and caps the total amount of grants awarded in any fiscal year at $25 million.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1589
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, or motorized skateboards or scooters to follow the pedestrian Walk signal at an intersection when traveling in the direction of the signal, provided that they yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk traveling in the same direction. The bill provides that a person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter may not start to cross a highway in the direction of a Don't Walk signal, but such person who has partially completed his crossing on the Walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island and remain there while the Don't Walk signal is showing. Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, or motorized skateboards or scooters to follow the pedestrian Walk signal at an intersection when traveling in the direction of the signal, provided that they yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk traveling in the same direction. The bill provides that a person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter may not start to cross a highway in the direction of a Don't Walk signal, but such person who has partially completed his crossing on the Walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island and remain there while the Don't Walk signal is showing.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1590
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Enrolled
2/16/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Causing a telephone or other device to signal with intent to annoy; emergency communications; penalty. Modernizes the statute prohibiting harassment of emergency personnel in the performance of their duties by causing a telephone to ring to include a prohibition on causing any other device to signal with the intent to annoy, harass, hinder, or delay such emergency personnel.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1591
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Refer
1/23/23
Report Pass
1/30/23
Engrossed
2/2/23
Refer
2/6/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Office of Data Governance and Analytics; Chief Data Officer. Repeals the sunset provision enacted in 2021 that created the Office of Data Governance and Analytics (the Office) and the position of Chief Data Officer within the Office of the Secretary of Administration, making both permanent. The provision is currently scheduled to expire on July 1, 2023. The bill also requires the Office to oversee and support any workforce development data systems, to facilitate data sharing, to identify innovative technology solutions, and to support processes that create data-informed decisions.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1592
Introduced
1/6/23
Refer
1/6/23
Report Pass
1/18/23
Engrossed
1/23/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Engrossed
2/13/23
Engrossed
2/17/23
Enrolled
2/22/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Public schools; codes of student conduct; policies and procedures prohibiting bullying; parental notification. Requires each local school board to require the principal of each public school or his designee to notify the parent of any student who is involved in an alleged bullying incident of the alleged incident within 24 hours of learning of such allegation. Current law only requires the principal to notify any such parent of the status of any investigation into an alleged incident of bullying within five school days of when such allegation was made.