| HB1910 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; unsolicited absentee ballot applications; required information; penalty. Requires any organization sending an application for an absentee ballot to a registered voter that was not solicited or requested by the registered voter to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| HB1947 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list. Eliminates the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1503 | Engross
Sine Die | Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Tabled in Rules (12-Y 6-N) |
| SB1307 | Engross
Sine Die | University of Virginia; board of visitors; membership. Expands the membership of the University of Virginia board of visitors to include two nonvoting advisory members consisting of one faculty member of the University and one staff member of the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
| HB1366 | Engross
Sine Die | Executive branch agencies; posting of regulations. Executive branch agencies; posting of regulations. Requires all executive branch agencies to post on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall at each stage of the regulatory process any agency action that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 7-N) |
| HB1378 | Engross
Sine Die | State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and lat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N) |
| HB1890 | Engross
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; guaranteed admission for certain veterans; report. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to provide for the guaranteed admission of any eligible vetera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 6-N) |
| SB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Health; mobile food units. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations and each local health department and health district to amend its regulations and guidance documents relating to mobile food units to allow up to 20 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Failed to report (defeated) in Health, Welfare and Institutions (10-Y 10-N) |
| HB1877 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1821 | Engross
Sine Die | Education improvement scholarships tax credits. Expands the education improvement scholarships tax credit program for taxable years 2023 through 2027 by (i) increasing from 65 percent to 100 percent the credit amount for the value of the monetary or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| HB1693 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; return of absentee ballots; drop-off locations. Repeals the provisions of the Code providing for the establishment of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB2257 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; local offices; election of council for cities and towns; exemption from district-based and ward-based restrictions for small localities. Exempts any city or town with a population of 25,000 or fewer persons that imposes district-based or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1680 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1248 | Engross
Sine Die | MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Prohibits the MEI Project Approval Commission from recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project for a business that does not have and does n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
| HB2454 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; monthly list maintenance. Requires the Department of Elections to conduct and complete voter list maintenance monthly using change of address information supplied by the United States Postal Service, except that such list maintena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB1780 | Engross
Sine Die | Small modular reactor plant revenue-sharing agreement among certain localities. Requires the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise and the City of Norton to enter into a perpetual revenue-sharing agreement regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 6-N) |
| HB1377 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; cancellation for persons known Voter registration; cancellation for persons known to be deceased or disqualified to vote; deadline. Requires the general registrar to cancel the voter registration of persons known by him to be dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB932 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board established; report; Drug Control Act reclassification of psilocybin. Establishes the Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board to develop a long-term strategic plan for establishing therapeutic access to psilocybin servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N) |
| SB1325 | Engross
Sine Die | Standard of Quality 2; specialized student support position ratio. Amends Standard of Quality 2 by increasing the required number of specialized student support positions from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students. Such sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB1045 | Engross
Sine Die | School boards; school building maintenance capital target. Requires each local school board to establish and include in any multiyear capital improvement plan or substantially similar document that it adopts a school building maintenance capital targ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N) |
| HB1958 | Engross
Sine Die | Campgrounds; inherent risks; liability. Provides that a person who goes camping at a campground shall be presumed to have known the inherent risks of camping, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that a campground professional, as defined in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1642 | Engross
Sine Die | Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N) |
| HB1672 | Engross
Sine Die | 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-enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1260 | Engross
Sine Die | National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; name; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB1142 | Engross
Sine Die | Sports betting; adjusted gross revenue. Reduces the exclusion from a sports betting permit holder's adjusted gross revenue, on which it is taxed, all cash and the cash value of merchandise paid out as winnings to bettors, and the value of all bonuses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) |
| SB994 | Engross
Sine Die | Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee, also created by the bill. The Committee is made up ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB1228 | Engross
Sine Die | Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; contributing private institutions of higher education. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (14-Y 7-N) |
| SB848 | Engross
Sine Die | Public school buildings and facilities; construction and renovation; renewable energy generation facilities; report. Directs the Commission on School Construction and Modernization, in consultation with the Department of Energy, to develop and make r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction; mental health education; curriculum guidelines; instruction required. Requires each public elementary, middle, and high school to provide at each grade level, in addition to health ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N) |
| HB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill and for persons identified as being illegally present in the United States by U.S. Immigration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1380 | Engross
Sine Die | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1020 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Museum of Transportation; established. Establishes the Virginia Museum of Transportation as a public entity and educational institution under the Commonwealth governed by a 15-member board of trustees. The provisions of this bill are conting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N) |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; certain waivers for individuals with developmental disabilities; medically needy spend down provision. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to take steps to amend the Family and Individual S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N) |
| SB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Employment of teachers; English as a Second Language Incentive Reward Program and Fund; established. Provides that each local school board shall adopt employment policies and practices designed to promote the employment of highly qualified teachers t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N) |
| HB2015 | Engross
Sine Die | Unlawful picketing or parading to obstruct or influence justice; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing or intimidating in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1274 | Engross
Sine Die | Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N) |
| HB1705 | Engross
Sine Die | Attorney General; instituting or conducting criminal prosecutions for violations of criminal sexual assault and commercial sex trafficking committed against children. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute or conduct criminal prosecutions in ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Control of firearms by localities. Removes a locality's authority to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (ii) any recreation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1783 | Engross
Sine Die | Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice. Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice. Allows every person access to distribution service or retail natural gas from a natural gas company authorized to provide natural gas service to the area where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1201 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System and State Police Officers' Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Adds 911 dispatchers to the list of local employees eligible to receive enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Tabled in Appropriations (14-Y 6-N) |
| HB1918 | Engross
Sine Die | Health insurance; coverage for audio-only telehealth services. Requires health insurers, health care subscription plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage beginning January 1, 2024, for the cost of health care services provided...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2384 | Engross
Sine Die | Marijuana; search and seizure; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated; marijuana presumption; saliva drug screening. Removes certain offenses, described in the bill, from the prohibition of searches without a search warrant for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB1549 | Engross
Sine Die | Wrongful death; death of parent or guardian of child resulting from driving under the influence; child support. Provides that in any action for death by wrongful act where the defendant, as a result of driving a motor vehicle or operating a watercraf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB1109 | Engross
Sine Die | Board of Education; College and Career Readiness for English Language Learners Grant Program and Fund; established. Establishes the College and Career Readiness for English Language Learners Grant Program and Fund to support English language learner ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N) |
| HB2321 | Engross
Sine Die | Investigation prior to release; input from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that when the Parole Board is conducting the required investigation to determine if a prisoner will be released on parole the Board must notify the attorney for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB838 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any city and certain towns to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) which meets the definition of "derelict building", (ii) which meet the definiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 10-N) |
| HB2426 | Engross
Sine Die | Public school pupils and parents; access to certain postsecondary information. Prohibits any school board, public elementary or secondary school, including any joint or regional school, or employee or agent of such school board or school, including a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| HB2264 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; written guidance for comprehensive school counseling program. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year written guidance for a comprehensive school counseling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB2340 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle license plates and registration; taxes and penalties. Increases from $100 to $150 the maximum license tax that a locality is authorized to impose annually on motor vehicles not displaying current license plates. The bill increases from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 9-N) |
| HB1593 | Engross
Sine Die | Standards for accreditation; school accreditation review frequency. Eliminates the requirement that the Board of Education perform a triennial review of the accreditation status of a public school that has been fully accredited for three consecutive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
