| SB1320 | Pass | Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and Program; report. Codifies the Virginia Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, originally created in the 2021 Appropriation Act, and establishes the Virginia Community Developm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0640) |
| SB1402 | Pass | Criminal records; expungement and sealing of records; repeal. Repeals the statute providing for the limitation on the dissemination of criminal history record information related to the possession of marijuana and the statute related to automatic sea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| SB987 | Pass | Guardianship and conservatorship; periodic review hearings. Requires the court to set up a schedule for periodic review hearings in the order of appointment of a guardian or conservator, unless the court makes a determination that such hearings are u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0595) |
| SB1541 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; certain electricity transmission projects. Directs the State Corporation Commission to issue its final order for certificates of public convenience and necessity regarding certain projects no later than 270 days after th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0502) |
| SB1246 | Pass | Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions; designation as emergency response agencies. Requires that ordinances or resolutions establishing an emergency medical services agency specify the geographic boundaries of the agency's pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| SB812 | Pass | Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process; repeal. Repeals the provision allowing an exemption from the creditor process for emergency relief payments, defined as a 2020 recovery rebate for individuals and qualifying childr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457) |
| SB1321 | Pass | Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; regulation of rates. Provides, that in any proceeding to establish base rates for Appalachian Electric Power or Dominion Energy Virginia conducted by the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), if the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| SB1155 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; regulations impacting providers; report. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to review its regulations that impact providers licensed by the Department and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) |
| SB1339 | Pass | Minimum staffing standards for certified nursing facilities; administrative sanctions. Sets nursing staffing requirements for certified nursing facilities, imposes administrative sanctions on a certified nursing facility if it does not comply with th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| SB845 | 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 (CHAP0463) |
| SB1150 | Pass | Obsolescence of 2011 district descriptions; legal boundaries. Repeals Code provisions related to the 2011 decennial redistricting, including descriptions of the districts enacted in that cycle, that are obsolete as a result of the 2021 decennial redi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0455) |
| SB1261 | Pass | Health insurance; electronic prior authorization and disclosure of certain information; out-of-pocket costs; report. Requires each health insurance carrier, beginning July 1, 2025, to establish and maintain an online process that (i) links directly t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475) |
| SB974 | Pass | Financial institutions; consumer finance companies; authority of Attorney General to issue civil investigative demand. Authorizes the Attorney General, whenever he has reasonable cause to believe that any person not licensed by the State Corporation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469) |
| SB1413 | Pass | Motion for the disclosure of expunged records in a civil case. Provides that in an action for damages against a locality or a law-enforcement officer arising out of or relating to charges where a petition for the expungement of police and court recor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| SB1003 | Pass | Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473) |
| SB1465 | Pass | Community services boards; behavioral health authorities; purpose; performance contracts. Provides that the purpose of behavioral health services provided by community services boards and behavioral health authorities is to enable individuals with me... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0484) |
| SB1281 | Pass | Board of Education; Passport dual enrollment courses; course credit; guidelines. Directs the Board of Education to develop guidelines for prioritizing to the maximum extent practicable dual enrollment programs, including the Passport Program, the Uni... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479) |
| SB1430 | Pass | Department of Education; work group on reducing barriers to access to paid work-based learning experiences for English language learner students. Requires the Department of Education to convene a stakeholder work group to make recommendations on redu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) |
| SB1464 | Pass | Virginia Power Innovation Fund and Program; created. Creates the Virginia Power Innovation Fund with funding to be used solely for the purposes of research and development of innovative energy technologies, including nuclear, hydrogen, carbon capture... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0505) |
| SB1019 | 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 (CHAP0454) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| SB1064 | Pass | Titling requirements for nonrepairable vehicles; sale to certain auto recyclers. Establishes a process whereby an insurance company can obtain a nonrepairable certificate for a vehicle acquired through the claims process without first obtaining a tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| SB1359 | Pass | Public elementary and secondary schools; threat assessment team members; training requirement. Requires new threat assessment team members at each public elementary and secondary school to complete initial threat assessment training and all threat as... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295) |
| SB1145 | 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 (CHAP0300) |
| SB1473 | 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 (CHAP0326) |
| SB1027 | 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 (CHAP0395) |
| SB1223 | Pass | Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults; venue. Provides that, in addition to the county or city in which any act was performed in furtherance of the offense or the accused resided at the time of the offense, venue for the trial of an accused cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0330) |
| SB814 | Pass | Interpreters for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Provides that if the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing cannot procure a qualified interpreter to assist a party or witness in a civil proceeding who is speech-impaired or who is deaf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0416) |