| 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) |
| HB1687 | Engross
Sine Die | Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. Expands the Supplement to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry to include information on persons who were convicted of certain sexual offenses on or after July 1, 1970,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB946 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB2347 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Planning and Budget; Regulatory Budget Program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget, under the direction of the Secretary of Finance, to establish a continuous Regulatory Budget Program with the goal of setting a two-y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (11-Y 4-N) |
| HB2319 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; rates and deductions. Lowers the top income tax rate from 5.75 percent to 5.5 percent for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2024. The bill also raises the standard deduction to $9,000 for single individuals and $18,000 for m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| HB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; military benefits subtraction; age restriction. Removes the age 55 or older restriction on those individuals allowed a military benefits income tax subtraction beginning with taxable year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| HB2138 | Engross
Sine Die | Income tax; business interest; qualified business income deduction; corporate rate reduction. Increases from 30 percent to 50 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| HB1934 | Engross
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; certain regulations to require legislative approval. Requires any agency that estimates that a proposed regulation will have an adverse impact on economic growth or increase regulatory costs by more than $500,000 within fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 8-N) |
| HB1688 | Engross
Sine Die | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB2435 | Engross
Sine Die | Hospital price transparency; enforcement; plans of correction; civil penalty. Grants the Department of Health authority to impose a plan of correction on hospitals that fail to comply with hospital price transparency requirements. The bill imposes a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| HB2452 | Engross
Sine Die | Charitable gaming; Texas Hold'em poker tournaments. Amends the definition of "Texas Hold'em poker tournament" to include an organized competition of players who (i) pay an initial seating fee for entry into the competition and an additional seating f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED #2 (49-Y 49-N) |
| HB2260 | Engross
Sine Die | Peninsula Airport Commission. Adds to the Peninsula Airport Commission (the Commission) one member from the City of Poquoson, one member from the City of Williamsburg, one member from James City County, one member from York County, and one additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1874 | Engross
Sine Die | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (45-Y 54-N) |
| HB2011 | Engross
Sine Die | Cemeteries; interment rights; proof of kinship. Allows a family member or descendant of a deceased person buried in a cemetery that is located on private property to petition the circuit court of the county or city where the property is located for i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB1487 | Engross
Sine Die | Meetings of local governing body; live broadcast and archive. Requires localities to provide a live video broadcast of public meetings of the local governing body and to archive such broadcasts on their websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (47-Y 49-N) |
| HB2209 | Engross
Sine Die | Pavement sealants containing a high polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; prohibition; civil penalty. Permits a locality to prohibit the sale and distribution of any pavement sealant that contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations greater tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (47-Y 50-N) |
| HB2427 | Engross
Sine Die | Hospital price transparency; private right of action; patient payment disputes; noncompliance; prohibition of debt collection. Allows patients to bring an action against a hospital that is not in material compliance with hospital price transparency l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB1379 | Engross
Sine Die | Local and regional correctional facilities; provision of medical services; waiver of sovereign immunity. Waives sovereign immunity for health care providers employed by localities or by local or regional correctional facilities to provide medical ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Printed as engrossed 23100123D-E |
| HB2207 | Engross
Sine Die | Information Technology Access Act. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" that is used to promote digital accessibility, also defined in the bill, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (48-Y 51-N) |
| SB883 | 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] | 2023-02-06
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-N) |
| HB1482 | 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 that may endanger the public health, safety, or welfare to register such building a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
VOTE: DEFEATED (63-Y 37-N) |
| SB1137 | Engross
Sine Die | Creation of Fredericksburg Area Transportation Authority; funding; recordation tax. Creates the Fredericksburg Area Transportation Authority, comprising the counties and cities located in Planning District 16. The Authority will administer transporta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB1017 | Engross
Sine Die | Time zone of the Commonwealth. Provides that the Commonwealth shall observe Eastern Daylight Time (Eastern Standard Time, advanced one hour) year-round upon the enactment by Congress of a law allowing states to observe Eastern Daylight Time year-roun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Read third time and defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-N) |
| SB704 | Engross
Sine Die | Superintendent of Public Instruction; school health services information; survey. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, at least annually, survey all local school divisions and use such data to strengthen the comprehensive availabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Education Committee |
| SB482 | Engross
Sine Die | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Environmental Quality, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB662 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Education; School Quality Profiles; teacher data. Requires the Department of Education to include on each School Quality Profile data on teachers' race and proficiency in any language other than English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Education Committee |
| SB495 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; removal of officers; recall elections; petition. Provides for the removal of certain elected officers and officers appointed to elected offices by recall referendum. The bill requires a petition for recall be signed by 30 percent of the to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools; English language learners. Requires state funding to be provided to support, in the 2022-2023 school year and thereafter, a new divisionwide ratio of English learner students in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teachin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Education Committee |
| SB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Placement of piles; no permit required. Provides that no permit shall be required for (i) the placement of piles for an existing private pier or to establish a boat slip or mooring within the owner's riparian area or (ii) a de minimis subaqueous dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB429 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of State Police; mobile applications; mental health and public safety. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to develop or obtain a menta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales by pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory and licensing st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| SB448 | Engross
Sine Die | Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault; hospital policies and procedures related to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault; work group; report. Directs the Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault (the Task Forc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
