| SB899 | Enroll
75% | Riparian assignments; transfer fee. Increases the fee for transferring a riparian assignment for planting or gathering oysters and clams from $5 to $100 when ownership of such riparian assignment is transferred with ownership of the adjacent highland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB2026 | Enroll
75% | Renewable energy; biomass-fired facilities; Department of Forestry advisory panel; report. Removes the renewable energy requirement for each Phase I and Phase II Utility to retire all biomass-fired electric generating units that do not co-fire with c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB1948 | Enroll
75% | Elections; absentee voting; witness requirement; required information on return ballot envelope; unique identifier. Removes the witness requirement for absentee ballots and replaces it with the requirement that the voter provide the last four digits ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107784D-H2 |
| SB1051 | Veto | Vehicles left on private property; public utility company and broadband provider service vehicles; removal or towing. Allows public utility company or broadband provider service vehicles to be left temporarily on private property without the consent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB2338 | Enroll
75% | Transit Ridership Incentive Program; funds; improving accessibility; transition to zero-emissions. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to use up to 30 percent of available funds in the Transit Ridership Incentive Program to support local, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1116 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority; powers and duties; Department of Energy and Department of Environmental Quality; report. Provides that the Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority (the Authority) has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 721 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1752 | Pass | Public utilities; fiber optic broadband lines crossing railroads. Provides that if a broadband service provider, in the construction of its works, deems it necessary to cross the works of a railroad company, the broadband service provider is required...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 713 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1924 | Enroll
75% | Minimum wage; employees with disabilities. Provides that individuals with disabilities that are paid at subminimum wage pursuant to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act are employees for the purposes of the Virginia Minimum Wage Act. The bill require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107739D-H1 |
| SB861 | Pass | Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes localities in Planning District 23, after completing an engineering safety analysis that addresses congestion, accident rates, and driver disregard for traffic control devices, to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 738 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1770 | Enroll
75% | Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia, on or before July 1, 2024, to petition the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) for a financing order for deferred fuel costs. The bill sets forth specific transa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB2444 | Enroll
75% | Development of offshore wind capacity; cost recovery. Requires the State Corporation Commission, in conducting its review of requests for cost recovery by a Phase II Utility for costs associated with generating facilities utilizing energy derived fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107766D-H1 |
| SB1209 | Enroll
75% | Charitable gaming; temporary permits; limitations. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to issue a temporary permit to certain qualified organizations authorizing such organizations to sell instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB2185 | Enroll
75% | Community services boards; behavioral health authorities; performance contracts. Modifies and reorganizes provisions related to the requirements of performance contracts entered into by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1405 | Enroll
75% | Income tax; rolling conformity; report. Provides that Virginia shall generally conform to federal tax laws on a rolling basis, meaning that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to federal income tax law as soon as Congress enacts them on or after Ja...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB1781 | Pass | Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority; powers and duties; Department of Energy and Department of Environmental Quality; report. Provides that the Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority (the Authority) has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 720 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1416 | Pass | Testing persons charged with certain crimes for sexually transmitted infections. Provides that as soon as practicable following arrest, or following indictment, arrest by warrant, or service of a petition in the case of a juvenile, the attorney for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 680 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB2305 | Pass | Certain electrical generating facilities; competitive procurement. Provides that in any petition by a Phase I or Phase II Utility for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct and operate an electrical generating facility that ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 732 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1375 | Pass | Health insurance; tobacco surcharge. Eliminates the authority of a health carrier to vary its premium rates based on tobacco use. Under current law, a health carrier may charge premium rates up to 1.5 times higher for a tobacco user than for a nonuse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 682 (effective 1/1/24) |
| SB1515 | Enroll
75% | Civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the Internet. Creates a civil cause of action for any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes on the Internet material harmful to minors, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107762D-S3 |
| HB2272 | Pass | Norfolk State University and Virginia State University; reduced rate tuition charges for certain students. Permits the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors and the Virginia State University Board of Visitors to charge reduced rate tuition to an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 696 (effective 7/1/23) |
| SB1501 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality regulations; civil penalties; written notice of violation. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality, prior to assessing any civil penalty against any person for an alleged violation of a regulation adopted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 718 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB2222 | Enroll
75% | Surgical assistants; practice prior to licensure. Allows persons who have successfully completed an accredited surgical assistant training program to practice under certain conditions prior to licensure. The bill allows such person to practice as a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107793D-H2 |
| HB2450 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; construction management; contract requirements. Excludes construction management contracts involving infrastructure projects from the requirement that no more than 10 percent of the construction work be performed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 726 (effective 7/1/23) |
| SB1459 | Enroll
75% | Administration of state government; prohibited applications and websites. Prohibits any employee or agent of any public body or person or entity contracting with any such public body from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeCh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| SB959 | Pass | Nutrient credit calculations outside the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Establishes that nutrient credits generated through stream restoration projects that are certified or recertified by the Department of Environmental Quality and located in tributaries...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/23) |
| SB1414 | Pass | Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation Fund; established. Establishes the Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation Fund to receive funds from a direct settlement, judgment, verdict, or other court order relating to consumer protection cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 717 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1963 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; services for individuals with developmental disabilities; financial flexibility; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to take steps to amend the Family and Individual Supports, Commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 701 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1536 | Veto | Department of Human Resource Management; Grievance Procedure Manual. Directs the Department of Human Resource Management to update the Grievance Procedure Manual to require the Office of Equal Employment and Dispute Resolution to review and issue a w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB1900 | Enroll
75% | Provisional licenses issued to providers of behavioral health and developmental services; notice requirement; waiver of appeal right by consent agreement. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to direct any provider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107754D-H1 |
| HB1807 | Enroll
75% | State agency compliance with flood plain management regulations. Directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation, no later than September 30, 2023, and in cooperation with numerous Secretariats and the Special Assistant to the Governor for Coas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| HB1846 | Enroll
75% | Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements; advertising. Allows a practitioner to issue a written certification via telemedicine to a patient who is located on the premises of a pharmaceutical process...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107790D-H2 |
| HB2275 | Enroll
75% | Energy planning and electric utility oversight. Increases from 10 to 13 the membership of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation (the Commission) by adding three nonlegislative citizen members; requires the Commission to annually elect a chair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107730D-H3 |
| HB1946 | Pass | Behavior analysts; assistant behavior analysts; licensure criteria; certifying entities. Provides in the criteria for licensure as a behavior analyst or assistant behavior analyst established by the Board of Medicine that certain documentation must b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/23) |
| SB1479 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (effective 7/1/23) |
| SB1075 | Enroll
75% | Phase I Utilities; deferred fuel costs; biennial reviews. Authorizes Appalachian Power to petition the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) for a financing order for deferred fuel costs. The bill sets forth specific transaction terms and oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB2428 | Pass | Marijuana; advertising restrictions; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to advertise in or send any advertising matter into the Commonwealth regarding marijuana, marijuana products, or any substance containing a synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 711 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1630 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 707 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB2296 | Enroll
75% | Secretary of Finance; assess licensing scheme for liquid nicotine; report. Directs the Secretary of Finance, in consultation with stakeholders, to assess (i) a potential licensing scheme for manufacturers, distributors, and retail dealers of liquid n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1508 | Pass | Assisted living facilities, adult day care centers, and child welfare agencies; provisional license. Increases from six months to 12 months the maximum period of time during which a person may operate an assisted living facility, adult day care cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 695 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1598 | Enroll
75% | Medical cannabis program; transition from Board of Pharmacy to Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. Transfers oversight and administration of the Commonwealth's medical cannabis program from the Board of Pharmacy to the Virginia Cannabis Control Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| SB1107 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; return to work. Reduces from 12 to six the number of months for the required break in service for a teacher, bus driver, school administrator, or school security officer to return to work full time and continue to receive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 692 (effective 1/1/24) |
| HB2024 | Enroll
75% | Personal information of judges and magistrates; penalty. Prohibits the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the personal information of any active or retired federal or Virginia justice, judge, or magistrate who has made a demand in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107663D-H2 |
| SB1406 | Pass | Behavior analysts; assistant behavior analysts; licensure criteria; certifying entities. Provides in the criteria for licensure as a behavior analyst or assistant behavior analyst established by the Board of Medicine that certain documentation must b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 694 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB1438 | Enroll
75% | Oyster Replenishment Fund. Adds the recycling of oyster shells to the list of activities eligible to receive funds from the Oyster Replenishment Fund. The bill also allows the Fund to be used for the encouragement of oyster shell donations for oyster...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107686D-H1 |
| HB2046 | Pass | Department of Housing and Community Development; statewide housing needs assessment and plan; annual reports by certain localities. Adds to the powers and duties of the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 715 (effective 7/1/23) |
| HB2325 | Enroll
75% | Agricultural land; acquisition or transfer by foreign adversaries prohibited; report. Prohibits any foreign adversary, as defined in the bill, from acquiring or transferring any interest in agricultural land, as defined in federal law, beginning Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107693D-H2 |
| HB1840 | Enroll
75% | Eastern Virginia Medical School; establishment of Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University. Repeals provisions establishing and relating to Eastern Virginia Medical School and designates the schools and divisions previously ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's substitute printed 23107733D-H1 |
| SB1361 | Enroll
75% | Parole Board; eligibility determinations; reports. Removes provisions that exempted from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act the records of the Parole Board. The bill requires the Board to (i) adopt rules re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| SB1035 | Enroll
75% | Bridges; state of good repair; allocation of funds. Designates bridges with a general condition rating, defined in the bill, of no more than five for at least one major bridge component as eligible for state of good repair funds. Currently, bridges m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| HB1595 | Enroll
75% | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2021, to December 31, 2022. The bill enacts Chapters 6 and 18 of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor's recommendation received by House |
