| SB824 | Pass | Substance Abuse Services Council; name change; membership. Renames the Substance Abuse Services Council as the Virginia Addiction Recovery Council and increases from 29 to 32 the membership of the Council by adding two members representing the proble...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| HB1712 | Pass | Damaging or removing temporary work signs; penalty. Expands the prohibition on damaging or removing traffic control devices or street signs, punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor, to include damaging or removing temporary signs approved by the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0472) |
| SB1121 | Pass | Coal mine methane; capture and beneficial use; Department of Energy to evaluate policy options; report. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to encourage the capture and beneficial use of coal mine methane, defined in the bill. The bill d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0496) |
| HB1888 | Pass | Real estate settlement agents; fees; informed consent. Requires the written consent of the seller's counsel before a settlement agent or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or subcontractors can collect any fees payable to such settlement agent or its subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0493) |
| HB2231 | Pass | Board of Social Work; powers and duties. Expands the powers and duties of the Board of Social Work to require the Board to maintain a list of the names and contact information of persons approved by the Board to supervise candidates for licensure as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0489) |
| HB2344 | Pass | Adult protective services; referrals to local law enforcement. Removes the requirement that the adult protective services hotline immediately refer certain reports of alleged adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation to the appropriate local law-enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487) |
| HB2354 | Pass | Health care provider panels; continuity of care. Makes various changes to provisions related to the continuity of care for an enrollee after a provider is terminated from a health insurance carrier's provider panel. The bill requires a carrier that u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0490) |
| HB1757 | Pass | Immunity of persons; tort actions; assertion of immunity; attorney fees and costs. Provides that a person shall be immune from tort liability if the tort claim is based solely on statements (i) regarding matters of public concern that would be protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462) |
| SB1151 | Pass | Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| HB2182 | Pass | Behavioral Health Commission; process to solicit and receive input. Provides that the Behavioral Health Commission shall have the power and duty to implement a process to solicit and receive input from (i) individuals who are currently receiving or h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| SB1421 | Pass | Adult protective services; referrals to local law enforcement. Removes the requirement that the adult protective services hotline immediately refer certain reports of alleged adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation to the appropriate local law-enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| SB1390 | Pass | Extension of land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects. Extends to July 1, 2026, the sunset date for various local land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| SB1477 | Pass | Electric utility; offshore wind affiliate. Authorizes Dominion Energy Virginia, in connection with certain offshore wind projects, to establish an offshore wind affiliate, defined in the bill, for the purpose of securing a noncontrolling equity finan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| HB1779 | Pass | Nuclear Education Grant Fund and Program established. Establishes the Nuclear Education Grant Fund and Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508) |
| SB1050 | Pass | Permit for coal ash landfill storage; provision of public water supply. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from approving an application for a new coal ash landfill permit if the facility boundary is located within one mile of an exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0503) |
| SB1276 | Pass | Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) |
| HB1726 | Pass | Department of Education; Virginia-based nonprofit organizations; schools for adults to earn credentials, college credit, and high school diplomas. Requires the Department of Education to authorize a Virginia-based nonprofit organization with demonstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0453) |
| HB2498 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; training for local officials; members of park authorities' boards. Adds members of any boards governing any authority established pursuant to the Park Authorities Act to the list of persons to whom the Virginia Fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| SB924 | Pass | Burial fees for military spouses. Provides that, from such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise received for such purpose, the Commonwealth shall pay any burial fee for (i) a member of the National Guard and Reserve or (ii) a deceased spouse of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0367) |
| SB1122 | Pass | Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund; use of funds; conservation easements to nonprofit land trust. Allows grants made from the Open Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund to be used to aid localities in providing funding for projects approved by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| SB944 | Pass | Elections; filling vacancies in the General Assembly; certain vacancies to be filled within 30 days. Requires the writ of election to fill a vacancy in the membership of the General Assembly (i) to be issued within 30 days of the vacancy or receipt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| HB1727 | Pass | Credit unions; virtual currency custody services. Permits a credit union in the Commonwealth to engage in virtual currency custody services, provided that the credit union has adequate protocols in place to effectively manage the associated risks and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) |
| HB2132 | Pass | Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. Makes various changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. The bill (i) requires excavators to review updates in the 811 positive response system and conduct additional safety verifications befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| SB1486 | Pass | Retired judges temporarily recalled to service; per diem compensation. Raises from $200 to $400 the per diem compensation for any justice, judge, member of the State Corporation Commission, or member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| SB1270 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; data collection and analysis; claims submitted to managed care organizations; report. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to collect data for each fiscal year from fiscal year 2018 through...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) |
| HB2381 | Pass | Toll operators; Department of Motor Vehicles records. Authorizes toll facility operators to obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles the email address or other electronic address of the owner of a vehicle that failed to pay a toll. Existing provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| HB1857 | Pass | Internet ticketing platforms and resellers; deceptive trade practices. Prohibits an Internet ticketing platform or reseller, as defined in the bill, from using or displaying any trademarked or copyrighted URL or other mark or symbol of an operator, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304) |
| SB1539 | Pass | Practice of dentistry; botulinum toxin injections. Provides that, in addition to the possession and administration of botulinum toxin injections for dental purposes, a dentist may possess and administer botulinum toxin injections for cosmetic purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0413) |
| HB1442 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; administration. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually publish on its website the current transient occupancy tax rates imposed in each locality. The bill also (i) requires the tax-assessing officer of a locality to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| HB2158 | Pass | Department of Medical Assistance Services; compliance with certain federal requirements; work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to evaluate its ability to comply with certain federal requirements regarding the Commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| HB1649 | Pass | Towing trespassing vehicles; limitations on fees. Authorizes towing and recovery operators to charge a fuel surcharge fee of no more than $20 for each vehicle towed or removed from private property without the consent of its owner and prohibits local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0323) |
| SB1031 | Pass | Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; exception to confidentiality; complainant notification of final decision or action. Requires the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission to provide notice to a complainant of any final decision made or action ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0329) |
| SB1401 | Pass | Virginia Resources Authority; purpose; community development and housing projects. Adds community development projects related to the production and preservation of housing, including housing for persons and families of low and moderate income, to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441) |
| HB2418 | Pass | Workers' compensation; group self-insurance associations. Provides that, subject to approval of the State Corporation Commission, two or more workers' compensation group self-insurance associations may merge if the resulting group self-insurance asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) |
| SB1546 | Pass | Department of Health; definition of restaurant; emergency. Adds any place or operation that prepares or stores food for distribution to child or adult day care centers or schools, regardless of whether the receiving day care center or school holds a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342) |
| HB1457 | Pass | Golf carts and utility vehicles; Town of Stony Creek. Adds the Town of Stony Creek to the list of towns that may authorize the operation of golf carts and utility vehicles on designated public highways despite not having established their own police ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451) |
| HB2250 | Pass | Department of Criminal Justice Services; powers and duties; training for law-enforcement personnel. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services, under the direction of the Criminal Justice Services Board, to establish training standards and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0331) |
| HB1426 | Pass | Board of Medicine; continuing education; human trafficking. Requires that, of the hours of continuing education required for renewal of licensure, any licensee of the Board of Medicine may be required by the Board of Medicine to complete up to two ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418) |
| SB1205 | Pass | Extension of local land use approvals. Extends from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not be constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| SB1259 | Pass | Criminal appeals; duties of the Attorney General and attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that in all criminal cases before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Virginia in which the Commonwealth is a party or is directly interested, the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| SB870 | Pass | Virginia Small Estate Act; payment or delivery of small asset; disposition and funeral expenses. Requires any person having possession of a small asset belonging to a decedent, upon presentation of an affidavit by the funeral service establishment ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414) |
| HB1469 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; franchise agreements; sale or lease of new motor vehicles. Provides that the threat to withhold incentive payments or the right to participate in incentive programs is included in the existing prohibition on any vehicle manufac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310) |
| HB2362 | Pass | Burial fees for military spouses. Provides that, from such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise received for such purpose, the Commonwealth shall pay any burial fee for (i) a member of the National Guard and Reserve or (ii) a deceased spouse of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| HB1541 | Pass | Evidence of medical reports, statements, or records; testimony of health care provider or custodian of records in juvenile and domestic relations district court; custody, visitation, placement, and support cases. Provides that in any civil case in a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0398) |
| SB938 | Pass | Lights on other vehicles; animal-drawn vehicles. Clarifies that the existing requirements for vehicles to display white lights in the front and red lights in the rear or approved reflectors applies to animal-drawn vehicles. The bill also provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| SB1187 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| HB1569 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; disclosure of personnel records. Clarifies that personnel records excluded from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act include those of persons employed by (i) a public body engaged in emergency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| SB1154 | Pass | Health insurance; provider credentialing; processing of new applications. Requires a health insurance carrier that credentials the physicians, mental health professionals, or other providers in its network to establish reasonable protocols and proced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377) |
| HB1907 | Pass | Consumer finance companies; short-term loan providers; licensee requirements. Requires a consumer finance company or a short-term loan provider to include as part of every loan application a question regarding whether the potential borrower has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| HB1619 | Pass | Vehicle safety inspection; commercial vehicles; exemption. Provides that a commercial vehicle operating in interstate commerce is exempt from the vehicle safety inspection requirement if, in addition to other criteria, such vehicle is inspected in ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0394) |
