| SB1064 | Pass | Titling requirements for nonrepairable vehicles; sale to certain auto recyclers. Establishes a process whereby an insurance company can obtain a nonrepairable certificate for a vehicle acquired through the claims process without first obtaining a tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| HB2220 | Pass | GO Virginia grants; matching funds; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2025, the sunset date of the provision that allows a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants. GO Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| SB1359 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; threat assessment team members; training requirement. Requires new threat assessment team members at each public elementary and secondary school to complete initial threat assessment training and all threat as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| SB1145 | Pass | Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. Makes various changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. The bill (i) requires excavators to review updates in the 811 positive response system and conduct additional safety verifications befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| HB1610 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; cooperative procurement; installation of playground equipment. Excludes the installation of playground equipment, including all associated and necessary construction and maintenance, from the prohibition on using coop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) |
| HB1510 | Pass | Local incentives for urban green space. Authorizes localities to establish programs to provide regulatory flexibility to encourage the preservation, restoration, or development of urban green space, defined in the bill. The regulatory flexibility may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| HB2077 | Pass | Department of Veterans Services; disclosure of services provided. Requires all attorneys who hold accreditation from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to assist veterans with VA-related claims and appeals processes to provide a written disclosu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307) |
| HB1735 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; statement of tenant rights and responsibilities. Provides that if a tenant fails or otherwise refuses to sign the form developed by the Department of Housing and Communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450) |
| HB1421 | Pass | Virginia Breeders Fund; disbursements to certain breeders and owners of horses. Provides that the Virginia Breeders Fund shall disburse amounts to breeders of Virginia-bred horses and to the owners of Virginia sires of Virginia-bred horses that finis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) |
| HB2187 | Pass | School counselors; staff time. Defines the terms "direct counseling" and "program planning and school support" for the purpose of the provision of law that requires each school counselor to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347) |
| HB1665 | Pass | Extension of local land use approvals. Extends from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not be constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| SB1473 | Pass | Toll operators; Department of Motor Vehicles records. Authorizes toll facility operators to obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles the email address or other electronic address of the owner of a vehicle that failed to pay a toll. Existing provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326) |
| HB2422 | Pass | Home solicitation sale; definition. Clarifies that the definition of a "home solicitation sale" includes a solicitation of the sale or lease of goods or services in which the seller engages in a solicitation without prior invitation or appointment. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
| HB2153 | Pass | Department of Human Resource Management; alternative application process for the employment of persons with a disability; policy update. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to update the policy related to the alternative application p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421) |
| SB1027 | Pass | Vehicle safety inspection; commercial vehicles; exemption. Provides that a commercial vehicle operating in interstate commerce is exempt from the vehicle safety inspection requirement if, in addition to other criteria, such vehicle is inspected in ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| HB1911 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; foreign countries of concern. Prohibits officers and employees of state and local governments, including legislators or members of their immediate family who may accept s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| HB2191 | Pass | Removal by locality of unattended or immobile vehicles. Allows for the removal of certain unattended or immobile vehicles by the locality's civil code enforcement division. Current law provides that such removal must be carried out under the directio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| HB1583 | Pass | 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 wind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| SB1223 | Pass | Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults; venue. Provides that, in addition to the county or city in which any act was performed in furtherance of the offense or the accused resided at the time of the offense, venue for the trial of an accused cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| HB1635 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; uninhabitable dwelling unit. Provides that a tenant may terminate the rental agreement and receive a full refund of all deposits and rent paid to the landlord if, at the beginning of the tenancy, a condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0435) |
| SB814 | Pass | Interpreters for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Provides that if the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing cannot procure a qualified interpreter to assist a party or witness in a civil proceeding who is speech-impaired or who is deaf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |
| SB891 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits. Increases from 15 to 30 days the additional time period that a landlord has to provide a tenant with an itemization of damages to the premises and the cost of repair when such damages e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434) |
| HB1762 | Pass | School boards; Teacher Reengagement Program established. School boards; Teacher Reengagement Program established. Establishes the Teacher Reengagement Program for the purpose of addressing instructional personnel shortages and COVID-19 pandemic-relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0429) |
| HB1634 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| HB1755 | Pass | Partition of property. Directs the court to consider certain factors when it orders a partition in kind, including (i) evidence of the collective duration of ownership or possession of any portion of the property by a party and one or more predecesso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| SB1018 | Pass | Railroad companies; notice of certain action. Requires a railroad company operating in the Commonwealth that submits an application to the federal government for consolidation, merger, abandonment, or discontinuance to notify, in addition to the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0318) |
| SB1449 | Pass | Judicial Retirement System; creditable service and contributions; extended absence; emergency. Provides that the entire amount of time a judge is on an extended absence for more than three months shall be subtracted from his years of creditable servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| SB1033 | Pass | Appointment of guardian ad litem for minor witness. Authorizes a general district court, when the court determines circumstances so require, to appoint a discreet and competent guardian ad litem to represent a minor who is required to testify as a wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| HB1495 | Pass | Transportation network companies; uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. Requires transportation network company (TNC) insurance to maintain the same minimum uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage as is currently required by law for all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321) |
| SB1511 | Pass | Land use classifications; property qualifications. Allows a property that formerly participated in and continues to meet the qualifications of a state or federal soil and water conservation program but is no longer receiving payments or other compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| SB1016 | Pass | Bedding and upholstered furniture; exemption from regulation. Exempts from the Board of Health regulations governing bedding and upholstered furniture any items of bedding or upholstered furniture that are 75 years old or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0375) |
| HB2487 | Pass | Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing. Prohibits the use of restorative housing, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that an incarcerated person who has been placed in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0392) |
| HB1995 | Pass | Passing stopped school buses; rebuttable presumption. Extends from 10 days to 30 business days the deadline for issuing a summons for an alleged violation of passing a stopped school bus in order for proof that the motor vehicle passed a stopped scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0401) |
| SB1147 | Pass | Board of Medicine; continuing education; human trafficking. Requires that, of the hours of continuing education required for renewal of licensure, any licensee of the Board of Medicine may be required by the Board of Medicine to complete up to two ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419) |
| HB1725 | Pass | Virginia Fair Housing Law; use of assistance animal in a dwelling; penalties. Prohibits certain persons from providing fraudulent supporting documentation to evince the existence of a disability or disability-related need for a person requesting a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439) |
| HB1744 | Pass | Adoption and foster care; home study reciprocity. Provides that home studies conducted by a local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency for the purpose of placing a child in a foster home or with an adoptive family shall, on and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340) |
| HB1996 | Pass | Summons for Unlawful Detainer form; plain English instructions. Requires the Forms and Efiling Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Virginia's Access to Justice Commission to develop plain English instructions, as defined in the bill, that explain to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447) |
| HB2262 | Pass | Health insurance; provider credentialing; processing of new applications. Requires a health insurance carrier that credentials the physicians, mental health professionals, or other providers in its network to establish reasonable protocols and proced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |
| HB1748 | Pass | Solicitation of contributions; professional solicitors; definition of "solicitation"; terms of contracts. Expands the definition of "solicitation" with respect to requesting contributions to include requests made by email. The bill outlines specific ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| SB1079 | Pass | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Allocates 3.5 percent of the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund to commuter rail systems jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) |
| SB1216 | Pass | Transportation network companies; uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. Requires transportation network company (TNC) insurance to maintain the same minimum uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage as is currently required by law for all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0322) |
| HB1504 | Pass | Joint Commission on Technology and Science; telephone solicitation calls and text messages; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to consider the practice of unwanted telephone solicitation calls and telephone solicitation ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0425) |
| SB1343 | Pass | Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles; online access to driving records; minors. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to create a process and guidelines by which minors may access their driving records on the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0404) |
| HB1931 | Pass | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; penalty. Creates a Class 6 felony for any civilly committed sexually violent predator who tampers with or in any way attempts to circumvent the operation of his GPS equipment while on conditional releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0379) |
| HB1542 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits. Increases from 15 to 30 days the additional time period that a landlord has to provide a tenant with an itemization of damages to the premises and the cost of repair when such damages e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433) |
| SB1207 | Pass | Crimes by gangs. Provides that the definition of "predicate criminal act" includes all violent felony offenses for purposes of predicate criminal acts for street gangs. The bill also increases various penalties for gang crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| SB872 | Pass | Emergency custody; temporary detention; alternative transportation; use of restraint. Requires magistrates to authorize alternative transportation of a person subject to an emergency custody order or temporary detention order if appropriate alternati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327) |
| HB1892 | Pass | Abduction of a minor; penalty. Makes the abduction of a minor a Class 2 felony, unless such abduction is committed by the parent or a family or household member who has been ordered custody or visitation of the person abducted, for which there is a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) |
| HB2150 | Pass | Trace evidence collection kit. Provides for the collection, retention, and storage of a trace evidence collection kit or anonymous trace evidence collection kit, defined in the bill, collected as part of a forensic medical examination of a victim of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0312) |
| HB2025 | Pass | Department of Social Services; school boards; SNAP benefits program parent information sheet; free or reduced price meals application. Requires the Department of Social Services to develop, annually update, and provide to each school board in advance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
