| VA | SB786 | Engross
Sine Die | Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; licensure of mold inspectors and mold remediators. Provides for the licensure and regulation of mold inspectors and mold remediators by the Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors, which is renamed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB936 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Emergency Management; comprehensive extreme heat emergency response plan. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to develop a comprehensive extreme heat emergency response plan by November 1, 2023. Such plan shall include criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1138 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rent increase during tenancy; conditions. Provides that, except for any increase in rent that occurs after the first year of a lease with a term longer than one year, a rental agreement shall not contain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
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| VA | SB1518 | 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] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1127 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Housing and Community Development; protection of vulnerable tenants; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development, in coordination with the Department of Social Services, to convene a workgroup to evaluate policie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1227 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; effect of criminal convictions on licensure; data to be included in biennial report. Provides for consideration of certain factors to be made by any regulatory board through an individualized as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1366 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Cannabis Incubator Project. Establishes a framework for the creation of the Virginia Cannabis Incubator Project in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory structure for such Incubator Project to be administered by the Virginia Cannab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB813 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusions; State Comptroller records. Provides that the exclusions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act related to the internal controls of the State Comptroller do not authorize the withholding of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | 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
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| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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
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| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | 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
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| VA | SB1351 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene no more than 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1340 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; application limitations. Prohibits a landlord from performing background, credit, or other pre-occupancy checks on an applicant without first (i) establishing a written rental application policy that incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
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| VA | SB1133 | Engross
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; regulated hemp products; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, which would be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1491 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small business. Redefines "small business" for the purposes of programs for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity and the Virginia Public Procurement Act to mean a bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1731 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of General Services; Office of Pharmaceutical Services; report. Establishes in the Department of General Services an Office of Pharmaceutical Services to develop and execute a plan to consolidate state agency prescription drug purchasing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1498 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; barbers and cosmetologists; exemptions; threading. Exempts persons whose activities are confined solely to removing unwanted hair by the use of string or thread from being required to obtain an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2135 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination of rental agreement; victims of sexual abuse or criminal sexual assault. Provides that a tenant who is a victim of sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault may terminate such tenant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB1766 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Statewide Building Code; multifamily residential housing construction projects; electric vehicle charging infrastructure standards. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations for electric vehicle chargin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; powers and duties; complaints; penalties. Authorizes the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to investigate alleged violations of the State and Local Government Conflict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1614 | Intro
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] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2058 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's assertion; condemnation of leased premises; remedies. Provides a rebuttable presumption of a landlord's material noncompliance with the rental agreement if the leased premises was condemned by an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB2295 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; restrictions on legal and illegal electronic gaming activities; joint committee established; civil penalty; report. Increases the maximum amount for the civil penalty for gambling devices in unregulated locations and changes the distribution o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB1652 | Intro
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] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Development Authority; economically mixed projects; affordable rent for persons or families of low or moderate income. Provides that in any economically mixed project financed through the Virginia Housing Development Authority, at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2059 | Intro
Sine Die | Noncitizens of the United States; aliens; terminology. Removes the term "alien" as it pertains to persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and replaces it with synonymous language, as appropriate, throughout the Code of Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1392 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Labor and Industry; Safety and Health Department of Labor and Industry; Safety and Health Codes Board; Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program; use of cranes and derricks in construction; report. Requires the Safety and Health C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1971 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; slotting fees. Requires retail licensees to keep complete, accurate, and separate records of all slotting fees, as defined in the bill, received from a manufacturer of both alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, including a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB1743 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive sealed bidding; Invitation to Bid; required statements. Requires every written Invitation to Bid issued pursuant to the Virginia Public Procurement Act to incorporate certain statements of qualifications f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | 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 |
| VA | HB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Creative Economy Grant Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Creative Economy Grant Program and the Virginia Creative Economy Grant Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, for the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1750 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1830 | Intro
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] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB1558 | Intro
Sine Die | Common interest communities; residents providing certain services presumed to be independent contractors. Provides that a resident of a common interest community association who provides bookkeeping, billing, or recordkeeping services for such commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2075 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; terms and conditions of rental agreement; warranty of habitability. Prohibits a landlord from waiving, either orally or in writing, his duty to maintain a fit premises and requires a landlord to include i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2455 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of charitable gaming and historical horse racing. Transfers regulatory control of charitable gaming and historical horse racing from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Virginia Racing Commission, respectively, to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1464 | Intro
Sine Die | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Lottery Board; compensation to licensed sales agents. Provides that the amount of compensation paid to licensed sales agents of Virginia lottery tickets or shares shall be no less than six percent of sales and no more than one percent of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene as many all-virtual public meetings as each such public body deems acceptable in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB1845 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; children and elderly tenants; local department of social services. Provides that a landlord, when serving written notice on a tenant of his intention to terminate a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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| VA | HB1732 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1813 | Intro
Sine Die | Fireworks; sale, use, and taxation. Exempts consumer, display, and permissible fireworks, defined in the bill and relevant law, from the definition of "device" as it pertains to criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, transportation, dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Alcoholic beverage control; disclosure of alcohol by volume content by certain retail licensees; civil penalty. Requires retail licensees that are authorized to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to provide customers with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures; resource protection areas; locality to send notice. Requires the owner of residential real property located in the Commonwealth who has actual knowledge that the property contains a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2265 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial hemp; maximum THC concentration. Increases from 0.3 percent to one percent, in the definition of industrial hemp, the maximum concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the plant Cannabis sativa and excludes hemp products with a THC co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1878 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions to application of chapter; local administrative investigations; disclosure. Clarifies that personal contact information, to include a home or business (i) address, (ii) email address, or (iii) telephone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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