| SB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB909 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearm transfers to another person from a prohibited person. Provides that a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because such person is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of an assault and battery of a family or house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB842 | Engross
Sine Die | Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides a petition process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1192 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying assault firearms in public areas prohibited; penalty. Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1136 | Engross
Sine Die | Wage or salary history inquiries prohibited; civil penalty. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on the wage or salary history of a prospective employee in determining th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB1272 | Engross
Sine Die | Assault and battery; persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, or mental illness; penalties. Provides that any person charged with a simple assault and battery offense who has been diagnosed by a psychiatrist or clinic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB852 | Engross
Sine Die | Search warrants; menstrual health data prohibited; definition. Prohibits the issuance of a search warrant for the search and seizure of menstrual health data, as defined in the bill, stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1243 | Engross
Sine Die | Abortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; prohibited practices under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1454 | Engross
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; Energy-Intensive Trade-Exposed Industries work group; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to convene a work group for the purposes of assessing the competitiveness of manufacturers in energy-intensive trade-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Stricken from Senate calendar (40-Y 0-N) |
| SB815 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Motor Vehicle Warranty Enforcement Act; definitions. Expands the definition of "motor vehicle" in the Virginia Motor Vehicle Warranty Enforcement Act to include a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight under 10,000 pounds that is bought or used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Division superintendents; certain localities; qualifications. Provides that the Board of Education shall require any candidate for division superintendent of a local school division serving a locality with a population greater than 140,000 people to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| SB1101 | Engross
Sine Die | Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2026. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB1130 | Engross
Sine Die | Institutions of higher education; Get Skilled, Get a Job, Get Ahead Program. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to convene a work group, consisting of the Director of the Council or his designee, the Director of the Virginia O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| SB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Housing authorities; common household pets. Requires each housing authority to permit tenants to own or maintain one or more common household pets, as defined in the bill, subject to applicable state and federal law and regulations and certain reason...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1095 | Engross
Sine Die | Conformity with the Internal Revenue Code; cannabis licensees. Deconforms from federal law, as it applies to Virginia medical cannabis licensees, the prohibition on a deduction for any amount paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB843 | Engross
Sine Die | Retired circuit court and district court judges; recall; qualification by Senate Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee for Courts of Justice. Provides that no retired judge shall be authorized or eligible for temporary recall if such judge, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1266 | Engross
Sine Die | Public utilities; shared solar; minimum bill. Provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program shall not exceed the minimum bill that the State Corporation Commission is required to establish, provides considerations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | State Corporation Commission; limitations on disconnection of State Corporation Commission; limitations on disconnection of utility service by certain utilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission to conduct a proceeding for the purpose of esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Appeal of interlocutory orders. Restores the Court of Appeals' jurisdiction over appeals of orders granting or denying a plea of sovereign, absolute, or qualified immunity. Under current law, such orders are appealable to the Supreme Court of Virgini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1048 | Engross
Sine Die | Research and development expenses tax credits. Creates a step-rate reimbursement structure for the major research and development expenses tax credit in an amount equal to (i) ten percent, up to the first $1 million, of the difference between (a) Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1163 | Engross
Sine Die | Community revitalization fund; Accomack County. Adds Accomack County to existing provisions that allow the City of Richmond to establish a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration. The community revitaliz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1324 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Subcommittee on Tax Policy; to analyze tax credits and economic security payments. Directs the Joint Subcommittee on Tax Policy to review and analyze options for a state-level grant program, tax credit, or refund for families, including the exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1881 | Engross
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; monopolies; registration and renewal fees. Imposes limits on the powers of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by prohibiting the Commissioner from granting, suspending, or revoking any registratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1090 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Pharmacy; permit to operate pharmaceutical processor or cannabis dispensing facility. Increases the limit on the number of permits that the Board of Pharmacy (the Board) may issue or renew in any year from one to two pharmaceutical processor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1219 | Engross
Sine Die | Kinship foster care; barrier crimes; exception. Allows local boards of social services and child-placing agencies to approve as a kinship foster parent an applicant who has been convicted of possessing a Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2018 | Engross
Sine Die | Children's Services Act; information sharing; confidentiality exception. Allows family assessment and planning teams (FAPT) and community policy and management teams (CPMT) to share information with local law enforcement or threat assessment teams es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| SB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | Removal of elected officers and certain appointed officers; petition for removal. Requires signatures for a petition for removal of an officer to be collected within 90 days. No signatures on such petition shall be collected (i) within 75 days of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Tourism Authority; exemption from personnel and procurement procedures; repeal. Repeals the exemption of the Virginia Tourism Authority from the provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act and the Virginia Personnel Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1303 | Engross
Sine Die | Expungement and sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred and dismissed disposition or conviction by petition; defendant with a disorder or disability. Provides that a defendant with a disorder or disability, as defined in the bill, may file a peti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1330 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB984 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric utilities; net metering. Provides that a contract that provides for the ownership, maintenance, or operation of an electrical generating facility by a third party through a lease agreement with fixed monthly payments does not constitute the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB1181 | Engross
Sine Die | Sale, transfer, or purchase of unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable as a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, for any person to knowingly sell, offer to se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1466 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 stati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB957 | Engross
Sine Die | Prescription Drug Affordability Board and Fund established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Board for the purpose of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and other stakeholders within the health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| SB1527 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; definitions; organization; social organization. Amends the definitions of "organization" and "social organization" for the purpose of charitable gaming in the Commonwealth to include (i) an organization (a) established on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1287 | Engross
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville to the list of qualifying localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB835 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibited sales and loans to juveniles; definition of sexual conduct. Clarifies the definition of "sexual conduct" so that it is neutral regarding sexual orientation for the purposes of crimes related to prohibited sales and loans to juveniles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1484 | Engross
Sine Die | Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square or building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exemptions; public institutions of higher education. Limits the exemption from the prohibition on the carrying of any firearm or explosive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB934 | Engross
Sine Die | State agencies; telecommuting policy. Increases the target for eligible state employee participation in telecommuting from 20 percent to 45 percent by January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1167 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members, as that term is defined in the bill. The bill requires any firearm industry member that sells, manufac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1067 | Engross
Sine Die | Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and Substantial risk orders; substantial risk factors and considerations. Provides various factors that a judge or magistrate shall consider for the purpose of determining probable cause prior to issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1141 | Engross
Sine Die | Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| SB1282 | Engross
Sine Die | Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Provides that in the program established by a court to provide an option to any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB941 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits. Provides that if a tenant is present for a move-out inspection, there are no damages to the dwelling unit beyond normal wear and tear based upon such inspection, and the tenant does no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB1487 | Engross
Sine Die | Alkaline hydrolysis; registration; regulations. Establishes a registration requirement for alkaline hydrolysis providers. The bill defines alkaline hydrolysis and adds alkaline hydrolysis and hydrolyzed remains to statutes dealing with cremation and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1066 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1180 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections administration; acceptance of certain services permitted. Provides that (i) the acceptance of technical assistance, research, or subject matter expertise regarding election law, policies, and administration by any state or local elections o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB1504 | Engross
Sine Die | Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; removal of name and identifying information. Creates an additional process for a person required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry to have his name and information remo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| SB1545 | Engross
Sine Die | Civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to partial closure of the federal government; emergency. Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
