Virginia 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 23)
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VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1668
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Historic rehabilitation tax credit; increase. Increases from $5 million to $10 million, beginning in taxable year 2023, the maximum amount of the historic rehabilitation tax credit, including amounts carried over from prior taxable years, that may be claimed by a taxpayer in any taxable year. In addition, should the taxpayer incur expenses toward the rehabilitation of a certified historic structure in a locality that has a designated enterprise zone, as defined in the Code, the taxpayer may claim up to an additional $10 million in any taxable year.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1669
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Minimum wage; employees younger than the age of 18. Requires employers to pay employees younger than the age of 18 wages at a rate not less than the greater of (i) $9.00 per hour or (ii) the federal minimum wage.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1670
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Electric utilities; schedule for rate review proceedings. Provides that, in lieu of the triennial review proceedings required under current law, Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power will be subject to biennial reviews of their rates, terms, and conditions for generation, distribution, and transmission services.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1671
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Residential land development and construction fee transparency; annual report. Requires localities with a population greater than 3,500 to submit an annual report no later than March 1 to the Department of Housing and Community Development containing the total fee revenue collected by the locality over the preceding calendar year in connection with the processing, reviewing, and permitting of applications for residential land development and construction activities. The bill requires the report to be submitted by the locality in accordance with any guidelines and forms developed by the Department and the Commission on Local Government. The Department shall make the reports available on its website.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1672
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/23/23
Engrossed
1/26/23
Refer
1/30/23
Resisting detention; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to intentionally prevent or attempt to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully detaining him, defined in the bill as fleeing or attempting to flee from a law-enforcement officer when (i) the officer has reasonable articulable suspicion to detain the person, (ii) the officer communicates to the person an order to stop, and (iii) the person refuses to obey the order to stop. The bill allows a person charged with committing this offense to be arrested and immediately brought before a magistrate. The bill requires law enforcement to make a report to the Central Criminal Records Exchange when any person is arrested on such charge. Resisting detention; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to intentionally prevent or attempt to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully detaining him, defined in the bill as fleeing or attempting to flee from a law-enforcement officer when (i) the officer has reasonable articulable suspicion to detain the person, (ii) the officer communicates to the person an order to stop, and (iii) the person refuses to obey the order to stop. The bill allows a person charged with committing this offense to be arrested and immediately brought before a magistrate. The bill requires law enforcement to make a report to the Central Criminal Records Exchange when any person is arrested on such charge.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1673
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/24/23
Chaptered
3/27/23
Passed
3/27/23
Strangulation by blocking or obstructing the airway of another; penalty. Provides that any person who, without consent, impedes the blood circulation or respiration of another person by knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully blocking or obstructing the airway of such person resulting in the wounding or bodily injury of such person is guilty of suffocation, a Class 6 felony.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1674
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Comprehensive plan; freight corridors. Requires localities, when developing a transportation plan as part of the locality's comprehensive plan, to include freight corridors when designating transportation facilities that support the planned development of the locality.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1675
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/1/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Machicomoco State Park (i) to Patrick F. Lemon and Vickie M. Lemon and (ii) to Eric James Baldwin and Christy Willet Baldwin. The easement will allow ingress and egress from the existing Braeburn Lane and Timberneck Farm Road to the grantees' properties. Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Machicomoco State Park (i) to Patrick F. Lemon and Vickie M. Lemon and (ii) to Eric James Baldwin and Christy Willet Baldwin. The easement will allow ingress and egress from the existing Braeburn Lane and Timberneck Farm Road to the grantees' properties.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1676
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/27/23
Engrossed
2/1/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Annexation; extension of current moratorium. Extends by eight years, from 2024 to 2032, the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assembly fails to appropriate certain amounts for local law-enforcement expenditures are exempted through the 2030-2032 biennium.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1677
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/25/23
Engrossed
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Retail sales and use tax; service exemptions; Retail sales and use tax; service exemptions; diagnostic work for automotive repair and emergency roadside service. Exempts any amount charged for labor for diagnostic work for automotive repair and emergency roadside service for motor vehicles from retail sales and use tax, regardless of whether there is a sale of a repair or replacement part or a shop supply charge.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1678
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/20/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Charter; Town of White Stone. Updates the charter for the Town of White Stone in Lancaster County to reflect the shift from May to November municipal elections.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1679
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/20/23
Engrossed
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Enrolled
2/20/23
Chaptered
3/21/23
Passed
3/21/23
Charter; Town of Kilmarnock. Updates the charter of the Town of Kilmarnock in Lancaster County to reflect the shift to November municipal elections as required by general law and removes a reference to the mayor for purposes of calculating a quorum. The bill also provides that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed appropriating money exceeding the sum of $500, rather than the $100 limit as specified in the current charter, except by the recorded affirmative vote of a majority of all members elected to the council.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1680
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Voter registration; registration after the close of registration records; required affirmation. Requires the Department of Elections to prescribe procedures for the handling and counting of ballots cast by persons who register to vote on the day of the election, including a requirement that such person affirm, subject to felony penalties for making false statements, that he is not intentionally voting more than once in the same election, whether in the same or a different jurisdiction, and that he is not intentionally registering to vote at more than one residence at the same time, both of which constitute the crime of election fraud and are punishable as a Class 6 felony. Voter registration; registration after the close of registration records; required affirmation. Requires the Department of Elections to prescribe procedures for the handling and counting of ballots cast by persons who register to vote on the day of the election, including a requirement that such person affirm, subject to felony penalties for making false statements, that he is not intentionally voting more than once in the same election, whether in the same or a different jurisdiction, and that he is not intentionally registering to vote at more than one residence at the same time, both of which constitute the crime of election fraud and are punishable as a Class 6 felony.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1681
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Engrossed
2/3/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Enrolled
2/23/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Long-term services and supports screening; screening after admission; coverage of institutional long-term services and supports. Provides that if an individual is admitted to a skilled nursing facility for skilled nursing services and such individual was not screened but is subsequently determined to have been required to be screened prior to admission to the skilled nursing facility, then the screening may be conducted after admission. Under the bill, coverage of institutional long-term services and supports by the Commonwealth for such patients who have not been prescreened shall not begin until six months after the initial admission to the skilled nursing facility. During this six-month period, the nursing home in which the individual resides shall be responsible for all costs indicated for institutional long-term services and supports, without accessing the patient's funds. The bill provides that if sufficient evidence indicates that the admission without screening was of no fault of the skilled nursing facility, the Department of Medical Assistance Services shall begin coverage of institutional long-term services and supports immediately upon the completion of the functional screening indicating skilled nursing facility level of care pending the financial eligibility determination.
VA
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia House Bill HB1682
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/9/23
Report Pass
2/3/23
Engrossed
2/6/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Enrolled
3/7/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Weapon of terrorism; definition; penalty. Includes any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, as a weapon of terrorism for the purpose of defining terrorism offenses. The bill provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally manufactures or knowingly and intentionally distributes a weapon of terrorism when such person knows that such weapon of terrorism is, or contains, any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl is guilty of a Class 4 felony.