| VA | HB1673 | Pass | Strangulation by blocking or obstructing the airway of another; penalty. Provides that any person who, without consent, impedes the blood circulation or respiration of another person by knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully blocking or obstructing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709) |
| VA | 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: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0707) |
| VA | HB1706 | Pass | Dissemination of criminal history record information; National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Authorizes the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to obtain criminal history record information for the purpose of screening ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) |
| VA | HB1897 | Pass | Protective orders; extensions and continuances; penalty. Provides that if a petitioner files a written motion requesting a hearing to extend a permanent protective order, the court may issue an ex parte protective order until the extension hearing, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620) |
| VA | HB2398 | Pass | Sexual extortion; penalties. Creates a Class 5 felony for any person who maliciously threatens in writing, including an electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, (i) to disseminate, sell, or publish a videogra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0612) |
| VA | HB1478 | 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 (CHAP0396) |
| VA | HB1682 | Pass | Weapon of terrorism; definition; penalty. Includes any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, as a weapon of terrorism for the purpose of defining terrorism...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | HB1885 | Pass | Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes the crime of organized retail theft that makes it a Class 3 felony for any person who conspires or acts in concert with another person to commit simple larceny of retail property from one or more r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357) |
| VA | HB1659 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; Department of Education; best practice standards related to the transition of records and transfer of services for students with disabilities. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| VA | HB1860 | Pass | Guardianship or conservatorship; primary health care provider of respondent. Requires the name, location, and post office address of a respondent's primary health care provider, if any, to be included in the petition for guardianship or conservatorsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0176) |
| VA | HB1704 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0282) |
| VA | HB1835 | Pass | Threats made against health care providers; penalty. Removes the location element that specifies a health care provider must be in a hospital or in an emergency room on the premises of a clinic or other facility rendering emergency medical care from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0200) |
| VA | HB1976 | Pass | Temporary detention; release of detained individual. Permits the director of a facility where a person is awaiting transport to the facility of temporary detention pursuant to a temporary detention order to release the person if an employee or a desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168) |
| VA | HB1775 | Pass | Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder; law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that an anxiety disorder or depressive disorder, as both are defined in the bill, incurred by a law-e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0243) |
| VA | HB2216 | Pass | Health insurance; mental health benefits; coverage for mobile crisis response services and residential crisis stabilization units. Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for mobile crisis response services, defined in the bill, and su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186) |
| VA | HJR798 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Juliette Carolyn Brooks Herring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ798ER) |
| VA | HJR679 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable James P. Massie III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ679ER) |
| VA | HB1711 | Engross
Sine Die | Parental access to minor's medical records. Prohibits denial of parental access to the medical records of such parent's minor child, unless federal law requires the minor child's consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HJR646 | Pass | Commending Jay T. Braxton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ646ER) |
| VA | HB1689 | Engross
Sine Die | Patient visitation; visitation from clergy members. Requires hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities to allow patients to receive visits from clergy members during a declared public health emergency related to a communicable diseas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1954 | Engross
Sine Die | Killing the fetus of another; manslaughter; penalties. Provides that any person who kills the fetus of another by an intentional act committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2360 | Engross
Sine Die | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies. Firearms-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1603 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction during confinement. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and reduces enhanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1523 | Engross
Sine Die | Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of solicitation of prostitution from an adult from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony. The bill increases the fines from $100 to $1000 and from $500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | 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) |
| VA | HB1642 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HJR642 | Pass | Commending G. Gilmer Minor III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ642ER) |
| VA | HR302 | Pass | Commending Hsiao Bi-khim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Bill text as passed House (HR302ER) |
| VA | HJR583 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Joseph Edward Carey, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ583ER) |
| VA | HJR489 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; State Corporation Commission; tree-trimming practices of electric utilities; report. Requests the State Corporation Commission to study the adequacy of tree-trimming practices of electric utilities to ensure reliable electric service in the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2339 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedited diversion to court-ordered treatment in lieu of criminal adjudication. Establishes a process where a defendant who is charged with certain misdemeanor violations and appears to have a mental illness, and such charged conduct appears to be a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; school bus drivers; return to employment. Provides that if a retired school bus driver was employed by a local school division and had a bona fide break in service of at least three months between retirement and employment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB2434 | Intro
Sine Die | Orders for involuntary Orders for involuntary outpatient evaluations and services; evidence of defendant's mental condition. Allows the court, if a defendant is found not guilty of any offense after a trial at which evidence of his mental condition w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Tabled in Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HJR546 | Pass | Commending Colonel Anthony Steven Pike.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ546ER) |
| VA | HB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Certificate of public need; inpatient psychiatric services and facilities. Requires the Commissioner of Health (the Commissioner) to impose conditions related to the provision of care to individuals who are the subject of a temporary detention order ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
