| SB1480 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; deregulation of certain professions. Repeals certain provisions of the Code related to the regulation of landscape architects, interior designers, residential building energy analysts, backflow ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Unlawful picketing or parading to obstruct or influence justice; penalty. Provides that any person who, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing or intimidating in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (7-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB1335 | Intro
Sine Die | Fiscal impact statements; formula for estimated appropriations. Establishes a formula for determining the estimated appropriations in a fiscal impact statement of any bill that adds a new felony for which imprisonment or commitment is authorized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 1-N) |
| SB1179 | Intro
Sine Die | Education improvement scholarships tax credits; eligible student with a disability. Removes, beginning in taxable year 2024, the requirement that an eligible student with a disability also qualify as a student under the education improvement scholars...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N) |
| SB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB1506 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax credits; neighborhood assistance act and Income tax credits; neighborhood assistance act and education improvement scholarships. Makes several amendments to the neighborhood assistance act and education improvement scholarships tax credits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 8-N) |
| SB1237 | Intro
Sine Die | Legal notices; online publications. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement instead may be published in an online...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Magistrates; appointment and supervision. Gives supervisory control over the magistrate system to the chief circuit court judge and the Committee on District Courts and abolishes magisterial regions. Under current law, the Executive Secretary of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB1309 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; allow local public bodies to hold virtual meetings. Allows local public bodies, except for boards with the authority to deny, revoke, or suspend a professional or occupational license, to hold all-virtual public m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB1451 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; rates and deductions. Lowers the top income tax rate from 5.75 percent to 5.5 percent for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2024. The bill also raises the standard deduction to $9,000 for single individuals and $18,000 for m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of recordation tax to counties and cities. Increases the annual distribution of recordation tax revenues to cities and counties from $20 million to $60 million.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR254 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); charter schools. Grants to the Board of Education the authority, subject to criteria and conditions as the General Assembly may prescribe, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; business interest; qualified business income deduction; corporate rate reduction. Increases from 30 percent to 50 percent the Virginia individual and corporate income tax deduction for business interest disallowed as a deduction under § ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Stormwater Management Program; Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Program; exemptions for the harvesting of forest crops. Clarifies that the exemptions for the harvesting of forest crops from the provisions of the Virginia Stormwater Mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N) |
| SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; admissions; Virginia Promise to Veterans Act; report. Establishes the Virginia Promise to Veterans Act for the purpose of removing barriers to higher education for veterans of the uniformed services, as define...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N) |
| SB853 | Intro
Sine Die | Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children program; additional funding. Provides that in each fiscal year, at least $2.5 million shall be appropriated to the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children program for investigating and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission; membership. Makes the Secretary of Finance a permanent member of the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission and requires a responsible public entity to submit to the Secretary a copy of any prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1516 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; general provisions and administration; guidance to local election officials from third parties. Provides that any election official who receives guidance pertaining to voter registration or the administration of elections from any instrume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| SJR224 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three full terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegates to six full terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service for both conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (10-Y 0-N 3-A) |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; registration, absentee voting, and conduct of election. Repeals provisions of law permitting registration on election day; requires an excuse to vote absentee; removes the option to vote absentee in person; requires absentee ballots to eit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Administrative Process Act; appeal of case decisions regarding grant or denial of public assistance. Removes the prohibition against appeals regarding the adequacy of standards of need and payment levels for public assistance and social services prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR235 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal testing facilities; noncompliance with federal laws and regulations; civil penalty. Establishes certain restrictions and civil penalties for animal testing facilities, as defined in the bill, that have received citations for noncompliance with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1331 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Incorporated by Local Government |
| SB949 | Intro
Sine Die | C-PACE loans; residential dwellings and condominiums. Removes an exclusion for residential dwellings with fewer than five dwelling units and condominium projects from certain requirements related to a voluntary special assessment lien that secures a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB933 | Intro
Sine Die | Single-use plastic carrier bags; local prohibition. Authorizes a locality to prohibit by ordinance the purchase, sale, or provision, whether free or for a cost, of any single-use plastic carrier bag that is not recyclable from grocery stores, retail ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (6-Y 9-N) |
| SB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposition of unrestorably incompetent defendant; acts of violence. Provides that the same disposition procedures currently in place for an unrestorably incompetent defendant charged with aggravated murder shall also apply to an unrestorably incompe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1336 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; short-term limited-duration medical plans. Authorizes a health insurance carrier to issue short-term limited-duration medical plans with an expiration date that is less than 12 months after the original effective date of the contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB805 | Intro
Sine Die | Control of firearms by localities. Removes the authority for a locality by ordinance to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of parole statutes for juveniles and persons committed upon felony offenses committed on or after January 1, 1995. Repeals the abolition of parole. The bill requires the Virginia Parole Board to establish procedures for consideration of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 7-N) |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Public utilities; customer consent to install smart meter. Prohibits a public utility from installing a smart meter, defined in the bill, on the premises of a customer without first obtaining such customer's consent to such installation. The bill req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice. Allows every person access to distribution service or retail natural gas from a natural gas company authorized to provide natural gas service to the area where the service will be received. The bill prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1505 | Intro
Sine Die | Recycling and waste disposal; unpaid fees; lien. Authorizes a locality to recover unpaid charges, including interest, for recycling and waste disposal services. The bill provides that if such charges are combined with real estate taxes, that such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Workplace violence; violence in certain public places; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 felony for any person to commit an act of violence at (i) such person's place of employment or former place of employment, or a franchise thereof, whether on or off du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Unemployment compensation; time to file appeal. Reduces from 30 days to 15 days (i) the time after notice of the determination of a claim within which a claimant is required to file an appeal before such determination becomes final and (ii) the time ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1488 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Repeals the procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from three to five years for a first offense and from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm durin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB1510 | Intro
Sine Die | Orders for involuntary outpatient evaluations and services; 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 whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 4-N) |
| SB1296 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand larceny and certain property crimes; penalties. Reduces from $1,000 to $500 the threshold amount of money taken or value of goods or chattel taken at which the crime rises from petit larceny to grand larceny. The bill reduces the threshold by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB1391 | Intro
Sine Die | Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict property managed by a Virginia realtor. Provides that a locality may not restrict by ordinance any short-term rental property manage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1338 | Intro
Sine Die | Health insurance; pharmacy benefits managers; employee welfare benefit plans. Provides that entities providing or administering self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans are subject to provisions related to pharmacy benefits manageme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Renewable energy portfolio standard requirements; State Corporation Commission authority; report. Requires electric utilities to petition the State Corporation Commission for relief from the requirements of certain provisions of the Code that mandate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Failed to report (defeated) in Commerce and Labor (5-Y 10-N) |
| SB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act. Raises from $100,000 to $500,000 the cap for an award pursuant to the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conferenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Notaries; course and examination; journal and electronic record of notarial acts. Requires every applicant for a notary or electronic notary commission to take, within 90 days preceding the application, a course of instruction and to complete a writt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Powers of cities and certain towns; vacant building registration fees; civil penalty. Increases the maximum annual registration fee that cities and certain towns can impose on an owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB840 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 Codes Board of the Department of Labor and Industry t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB1143 | 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] | 2023-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules (17-Y 0-N) |
| SB1387 | 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] | 2023-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (10-Y 0-N) |
| SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; viability; treatment of nonviable pregnancy. Provides that it is lawful for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy by performing an abortion or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
