| VA | SB813 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1061 | Engross
50% | Private activity bonds; public hearings. Updates notice requirements for public hearings on private activity bonds throughout the Code. The bill also removes the requirement that an applicant provide the approving authority with a form specified in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB860 | Engross
50% | Fort Monroe Authority Act; powers and duties; collection of fees for goods and services offered by persons operating within Area of Operation; installation of security cameras. Allows the Fort Monroe Authority (the Authority) to fix, charge, and coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1071 | Engross
50% | Department of Veterans Services; mental health and rehabilitative services; Military Spouse Liaison. Adds military service members transitioning from military to civilian life to the list of persons supported by the program for mental health and reha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SB1471 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB800 | Intro
25% | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Read first time |
| VA | HB1400 | Intro
25% | Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Read first time |
| VA | HB1450 | Engross
50% | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Read third time and passed House (95-Y 2-N) |
| VA | HB1594 | Intro
25% | Department of Human Resource Management; health insurance coverage for employees of multijurisdictional community services boards. Adds employees of community services boards that serve more than one locality to the definition of "state employee" for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB934 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-07
Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1618 | Intro
25% | Revenue Stabilization Fund and Revenue Reserve Fund; required deposits. Requires deposit of any revenues that would be required to be deposited in the Revenue Stabilization Fund or Revenue Reserve Fund to be deposited in the Taxpayer Relief Fund, est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1738 | Engross
50% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; state public bodies; meetings; virtual public access. Requires all state public bodies to provide public access to meetings through electronic communication means and to provide the public with the opportunity to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (80-Y 19-N) |
| VA | HB1491 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1750 | Intro
25% | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; 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. The bill allows the Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1552 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1876 | Intro
25% | Firefighter's Fertility Protection Act; local government employees; health insurance program; fertility services. Requires that a health insurance plan established by the Department of Human Resource Management for employees of local governments, loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1002 | Engross
50% | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; foreign countries of concern. Prohibits officers and employees of state and local governments from receiving a gift with a value exceeding $100 for which the fair market ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1911 | Engross
50% | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; certain gifts prohibited; foreign countries of concern. Prohibits officers and employees of state and local governments and nonprofit private institutions of higher education from receiving a gift...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (69-Y 30-N) |
| VA | HB1760 | Intro
25% | Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps; established. Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps; established. Establishes the Virginia Teacher Residency Training Corps for the purposes of attaining and retaining public elementary and secondary scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1758 | Intro
25% | Department of Regulatory Innovation; Virginia Regulatory Sandbox Program; created. Creates the Department of Regulatory Innovation to oversee the Virginia Regulatory Sandbox Program, also created by the bill, which allows an individual or business to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1912 | Engross
50% | Treasury Board; powers and duties. Provides that the Treasury Board shall have the power and duty to make recommendations to the Governor on bonds, public-private partnerships, or other financing arrangements executed by private foundations for housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1913 | Intro
25% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibited contracts; agency-branded marketing materials. Prohibits state agencies from entering into any contract for the purchase of goods that (i) are branded with such state agency's name, logo, insignia, or other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1953 | Engross
50% | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; closed meeting exemption; home instruction of children. Creates an exemption from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act for discussion, consideration, or decisions relating to ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (52-Y 47-N) |
| VA | HB1998 | Engross
50% | Native plant species; state agencies. Directs the Secretaries of Natural and Historic Resources, Agriculture and Forestry, and Administration to coordinate the development of strategic actions for state agencies to take to prioritize the use of nativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB2207 | Engross
50% | Information Technology Access Act. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" that is used to promote digital accessibility, also defined in the bill, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (48-Y 51-N) |
| VA | HB1826 | Intro
25% | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2223 | Engross
50% | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; statement of economic interests; board of directors of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority. Adds the members of the board of directors of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2101 | Engross
50% | Administrative Process Act; Department of Wildlife Resources; exemptions; endangered species. Clarifies that the Department of Wildlife Resources (the Department), in promulgating regulations and in all case decisions regarding endangered and threate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2122 | Engross
50% | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; training for members of appointed school boards. Adds members of appointed school boards to the list of persons for whom the Virginia Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2004 | Intro
25% | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2120 | Intro
25% | Office of the Executive Secretary; public institutions of higher education; agreement to provide aggregated, nonconfidential case data in electronic format. Allows the Office of the Executive Secretary, at the request of a public institution of highe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2224 | Engross
50% | Newborn screening tests; Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services; fees prohibited. Provides that required newborn screening tests shall be performed at no cost to parents, guardians, hospitals or health care providers. The bill prohibits the Div...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2332 | Engross
50% | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; eligible site for site development grant; minimum acreage requirement. Reduces from 100 acres to 50 acres the minimum number of contiguous acres required for a site that is not a brownfield to sati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1898 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; public institutions of Virginia Public Procurement Act; public institutions of higher education; prohibition on boycotting Israel; civil penalty. Prohibits public bodies from entering into a contract in excess of $100...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (50-Y 48-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB1878 | Intro
25% | 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
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1133 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-02-07
Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) |
| VA | SB1459 | Engross
50% | Administration of state government; prohibited applications and websites. Prohibits any employee or agent of any executive branch agency or person or entity contracting with any such agency from downloading or using any application, including TikTok ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Chair votes Yes |
| VA | HB2376 | Intro
25% | Virginia Creative Economy Grant Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Creative Economy Grant Fund and the Virginia Creative Economy Grant Fund, to be administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, for the purpose of awa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2477 | Intro
25% | Care Economy Business Council created; powers and duties; membership. Creates the 12-member Care Economy Business Council as an advisory council in the executive branch of state government to advise the Governor on policy and funding priorities to de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB2500 | Engross
50% | Virginia Public Procurement Act; private contracts; payment of subcontractors. Provides that in contracts for construction, contractors shall be liable to their subcontractors for the entire amount owed to their subcontractors regardless of the contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2195 | Engross
50% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N) |
| VA | HB2050 | Intro
25% | 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
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB2113 | Engross
50% | Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; Virginia Tourism Authority; Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority; adoption of procurement policies; exemptions. Requires the governing boards of the Virginia Economic Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2208 | Engross
50% | Hate crimes and discrimination; anti-Semitism; penalties. Provides that as used in the Code of Virginia, "race," "religion," or "national origin" shall include persons of the Jewish faith or ethnicity; "racial, religious, or ethnic animosity" shall i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) |
| VA | SB1404 | Engross
50% | School Readiness Committee; renaming as Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education; purpose; membership; powers and duties. Renames the School Readiness Committee as the Commission on Early Childhood Care and Education and makes several changes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 8 @ 8:00 am]
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB1332 | Engross
50% | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB1396 | Engross
50% | Organized retail theft; report; penalty. Establishes 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 commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N) |
| VA | HB2345 | Engross
50% | smartCHaRt network Program. Renames the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program as the smartCHaRt network Program and expands the Program to allow participation by all health care providers, insurance carriers, and other organizations with a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1470 | Engross
50% | Department of Workforce Development and Advancement Department of Workforce Development and Advancement created; consolidation of the Commonwealth's workforce development policies and programs; report. Creates the Department of Workforce Development ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2396 | Intro
25% | Public institutions of higher education; Virginia College Savings Plan; renamed Commonwealth Savers Plan; duties of governing board. Renames the Virginia College Savings Plan as the Commonwealth Savers Plan (the Plan) and amends all relevant referenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Education Committee |
