| VA | HB1455 | Engross
50% | Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1455H1 |
| VA | HB1387 | Engross
50% | K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; K-12 schools and institutions of higher education; designation of interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports based on biological sex; student participation in fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Engrossed by House as amended HB1387E (51-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB1969 | Intro
25% | Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants adoptees 18 years of age or older access to their original birth certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB1816 | Engross
50% | Dangers and victims of communism; recognition; Standards of Learning and programs of instruction. Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting the seventh day of November as Victims of Communism Day and requiring such day to be suit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Read third time and passed House (64-Y 36-N) |
| VA | HB1803 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires the opportunities for parental involvement required to be provided by each school board to include the opportunity for parents of students enrolled in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1752 | Engross
50% | Public utilities; fiber optic broadband lines crossing railroads. Provides that a broadband service provider, in the construction of its works, may cross the works of a railroad company if the crossing does not interfere with the works and operations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1642 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HJR583 | Engross
50% | Celebrating the life of Joseph Edward Carey, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HB2306 | Engross
50% | Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Read third time and passed House (52-Y 48-N) |
| VA | HB1797 | Engross
50% | Renewable energy; offshore wind development. Provides that for the life of offshore wind facilities constructed by a Phase II Utility, customers shall be held harmless for any shortfall in energy production below an annual net capacity factor of 42 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2495 | Engross
50% | Establishment of Middle School Mathematics Innovation Establishment of Middle School Mathematics Innovation Zone Fund and Program. Establishes the Middle School Mathematics Innovation Zone Fund and Program, to be administered by the Department of Edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2495H2 |
| VA | HB1795 | Engross
50% | Abortion; born alive infant; treatment and care; penalty. Requires every health care provider licensed by the Board of Medicine who attempts to terminate a pregnancy to (i) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB2341 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; high school graduation; alternative pathways to the advanced studies diploma and associated diploma seals. Directs the Board of Education to establish two pathways to the advanced studies high school diploma, and associated diplom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB2385 | Engross
50% | Administration of state government; prohibited actions; civil penalty. Prohibits state agencies from entering into a contract for goods or services with a scrutinized company, defined in the bill as any company owned or operated by the Government of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1688 | Engross
50% | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires an operator, defined in the bill, to obtain verifiable parental consent prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, or disclosing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2454 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-06
Read second time and engrossed |
| VA | HB1885 | Engross
50% | Organized retail theft; report; Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person to (i) conspire or act in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB2432 | Intro
25% | Sage's Law; Minors and students self-identifying as a Sage's Law; Minors and students self-identifying as a gender different from biological sex; counseling; parental notification; parental care. Requires any person licensed as administrative or inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-05
Read first time |
| VA | HJR457 | Intro
25% | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1427 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1508 | Intro
25% | Virginia Education Success Account Program; establishment. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HJR510 | Engross
50% | Trisomy Awareness Month. Designates March, in 2023 and in each succeeding year, as Trisomy Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1526 | Engross
50% | Student literacy measures; scope; students in grades four through eight. Expands several provisions of the Virginia Literacy Act, enacted during the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly, effective with the 2024–2025 school year, and current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1705 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1478 | Engross
50% | Crimes by gangs. Expands the definition of "predicate criminal act" to include all felonies and a carrying a concealed weapon violation. The bill also increases various penalties for gang crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2426 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-03
VOTE: Passage (68-Y 30-N) |
| VA | HB1800 | Engross
50% | Public institutions of higher education; transparency. Public institutions of higher education; transparency. Imposes several requirements on governing boards of public institutions of higher education relating to transparency, including requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB2196 | Intro
25% | Local sales and use tax; exemption for essential personal hygiene products and infant formula. Exempts essential personal hygiene products and infant formula from the local sales and use tax. Under current law, such products are exempt from state sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1648 | Intro
25% | Prohibited contributions from foreign-influenced corporations; required reports. Prohibits foreign-influenced corporations, as defined in the bill, from making independent expenditures or making contributions to a candidate, campaign committee, polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1436 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1511 | Engross
50% | Midwifery; administration of medication. Allows Midwifery; administration of medication. Allows licensed midwives to obtain, possess, and administer drugs and devices within the scope of their practice. The bill requires the Board of Medicine, in con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1891 | Intro
25% | Transcranial magnetic stimulation; pilot program. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a pilot program to make electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation available for veterans, fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1691 | Engross
50% | School Resource Officer Grants Program and Fund. School Resource Officer Grants Program and Fund. Provides that matching grants from the School Resource Officer Incentive Grants Fund may be awarded to local law-enforcement agencies and local school b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1461 | Engross
50% | Department of Education; uniform system of discipline for disruptive student behavior; report. Requires the Department of Education to establish, within its regulations governing student conduct, and each school board to adhere to, a uniform system o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB2480 | Intro
25% | Home instruction and private school tax credit. Creates a nonrefundable tax credit for taxable years 2023 through 2027 for parents or legal guardians of a child who is homeschooled or attends a private school in Virginia. The bill provides that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Tabled in Finance (12-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB2489 | Intro
25% | Responsible Fatherhood Initiative; fatherhood needs assessment; Fatherhood Support Grants Program and Fund established. Requires the Virginia Department of Social Services to contract for the development and implementation of the Responsible Fatherho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2375 | Engross
50% | Provisional teacher licensure; permissive extension; satisfactory performance evaluations during years of actual employment. Requires the Board of Education to extend for at least one additional year, but for no more than two additional years, the th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB2246 | Engross
50% | Special license plates; military service; unremarried surviving spouses. Authorizes unremarried surviving spouses of persons eligible to receive a special license plate for military service to also receive such special license plates. The law current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB2277 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive community colleges; education preparation programs. Permits comprehensive community colleges to offer four-year bachelor's degree programs in teacher education, subject to the requirements for accreditation and education preparation pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1454 | Intro
25% | Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria--holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HJR541 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC; cost efficiency of public institutions of Study; JLARC; cost efficiency of public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the cost efficien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1943 | Engross
50% | Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth. Requires an attorney for the Commonwealth to consult with a crime victim in a felony case to (i) inform the victim of the contents of a proposed plea agreement and (ii) obtain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1474 | Engross
50% | Law-enforcement officers; protected personal information. Provides that any law-enforcement officer who provides information relative to a criminal investigation or in proceedings preliminary to a criminal prosecution may refuse, unless ordered by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1740 | Intro
25% | Income taxation; contributions to Virginia College Savings Income taxation; contributions to Virginia College Savings Plan accounts. Increases the maximum individual income tax deduction for amounts paid or contributed to a prepaid tuition contract o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting and referring to Appropriations (2-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR595 | Intro
25% | Commending Jeffrey C. Michaels, O.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Presented and laid on Speaker's table 23101897D |
| VA | HB1629 | Engross
50% | Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individuali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1488 | Intro
25% | Abortion; use of public funds prohibited. Provides that no agency of the Commonwealth shall enter into any contract with or make any grant of public funds, as defined in the bill, to any entity or any affiliate of any entity that provides abortion se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-28
To House Courts: Subcommittee #1 |
| VA | HB1379 | Engross
50% | Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials; graphic sexual content; parental opt out and request for review. Requires the principal of each public elementary or secondary school or his designee to (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
To Senate Education and Health Committee |
| VA | HB1693 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 7]
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR538 | Intro
25% | Study; Virginia Community College System; feasibility of pursuing the approval of education preparation programs to be offered by comprehensive community colleges in the Commonwealth; report. Requests that the Virginia Community College System study ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-27
To House Rules: Studies Committee |
