| SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Transit Ridership Incentive Program; on-demand microtransit operations. Includes the development and implementation of on-demand microtransit operations, defined in the bill, to incentivize and promote transit ridership, as part of the goal of the Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway use fee and mileage-based user fee program; repeal. Eliminates the highway use fee and mileage-based user fee program. The bill directs the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to continue to reimburse the cost of the highway use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1290 | Intro
Sine Die | School Choice Educational Savings Accounts. Permits the parents of qualified students to apply to the local school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable School Choice Educational Savings Account that consists of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal condition to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion prohibited; exceptions; penalty. Provides that life begins at conception and no abortion is authorized or shall be performed on an unborn child except when (i) a physician determines, in reasonable medical judgment, that a medical emergency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Public elementary and secondary schools; comprehensive school counseling program; development and implementation. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a written plan for a comprehensive school counseling program for the purpose o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporary detention in hospital for testing, observation, or treatment; mental or physical conditions resulting from intoxication. Clarifies that in the case where a mental or physical condition is a result of intoxication, a licensed physician who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | School psychologists; staffing flexibility. Provides that in order to fill vacant school psychologist positions, any local school board may employ, under a provisional license issued by the Department of Education for three school years with an allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Certain institutions of higher education; financial assistance; noncredit workforce training program; student grants; reimbursement. Increases from $3,000 to $4,000 the maximum amount for which the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | School counselors; staff time. Defines the terms "direct counseling" and "program planning and school support" for the purpose of the provision of law that requires each school counselor to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts. Permits the parent of a public preschool, elementary, or secondary school student who meets certain criteria to apply to the school division in which the student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; when lawful; 15-week gestational age; exceptions; penalty. Makes it a Class 4 felony for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy or aid or assis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB991 | Intro
Sine Die | Public institutions of higher education; immunization requirements. Declares that the General Assembly has the sole authority to impose immunization requirements on students enrolled in public institutions of higher education and any policy or any re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; licensed provider reporting requirements. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to amend its regulations to require providers licensed by the Department to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Incorporated by Education and Health |
| SB1084 | Intro
Sine Die | Prescription of Schedule VI controlled substances; asynchronous interactions; report. Allows practitioners to establish a bona fide practitioner-patient relationship through asynchronous interaction for the purpose of prescribing Schedule VI controll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Licensure and practice of associate physicians. Authorizes the Board of Medicine to issue a two-year license to practice as an associate physician to an applicant who (i) is 18 years of age or older; (ii) is of good moral character; (iii) has graduat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) |
| SB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of Education; Child Care Subsidy Program; extending scope of eligibility to certain foster parents. Directs the Board of Education to amend its regulations for the Child Care Subsidy Program to expand the scope of eligibility to apply for the P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Stricken at request of patron in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1191 | Intro
Sine Die | Education Savings Account Program established; Education Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program, to be administered by the Department of Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; rates and deductions for businesses. Provides an individual income tax deduction for 50 percent of the amount of qualified business income deductible for federal income tax purposes, but excluding the amount of qualified REIT dividends de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB1543 | Intro
Sine Die | Casino gaming; eligible host localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1437 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; investments; environmental, social, and governance investing restricted. Provides that unless the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System can demonstrate that a social investment, defined in the bill, would pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; military benefits subtraction; age restriction. Removes the age 55 or older restriction on those individuals allowed a military benefits income tax subtraction beginning with taxable year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N) |
| SB1462 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; military benefits subtraction; age restriction. Removes the age 55 or older restriction on those individuals allowed a military benefits income tax subtraction beginning with taxable year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 1-N) |
| SB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; standard deduction. Increases the standard deduction, starting with taxable year 2023, from $8,000 to $12,500 for single filers and from $16,000 to $25,000 for married filers (one-half of such amount in the case of a married individual fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Liability for sale of alcohol to impaired customer; injury to another person due to operation of vehicle while intoxicated. Creates a cause of action against an alcoholic beverage control retail licensee that sells alcohol to a customer who subsequen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (12-Y 3-N) |
| SB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 $100,000 with any contractor having more than an average of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires an operator, defined in the bill, to obtain verifiable parental consent prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, or disclosing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of school protection officers in public schools. Permits any local law-enforcement agency to employ in any public elementary or secondary school in the local school division, pursuant to an agreement with the local school board, a school p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 8-N) |
| SB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Liability for sale of alcohol to an underage person. Creates a cause of action against an alcoholic beverage control retail licensee who sells alcohol to an underage person who was visibly intoxicated if the consumption of the alcohol caused or contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Incorporated by Judiciary |
| SB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxable income; Paycheck Protection Program loans. Allows an individual and corporate income tax deduction or subtraction, as applicable, for any amount of business expenses funded by forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan proceeds that are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-N) |
| SB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Anti-Semitism. Provides that the term "anti-Semitism" when used in reference to discrimination in the Code of Virginia and acts of the General Assembly is defined by the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N 1-A) |
| SB869 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Provides that if a retired law-enforcement officer was employed by a local school division as a school security officer on or after January 1, 2020, bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retail Sales and Use Tax Act; agricultural exemptions; structural construction materials. Exempts from certain retail sales and use taxes structural construction materials that are an integral part of a commercial greenhouse structure and gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations |
| SJR229 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; juvenile restitution; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study juvenile restitution, evaluating (i) the frequency of court-ordered juvenile restitution in the Commonwealth; (ii) the average amount of restitution ordered; (i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Requires 26 affirmative votes for passage |
| SB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Retirement System; certain law-enforcement officers; part time. Provides that an employee of a political subdivision or of the Commonwealth who (i) is compensated on a salaried or hourly basis; (ii) works at least 20 hours per week; and (iii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1403 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax subtraction; professional firefighter pension. Establishes an income tax subtraction for up to $20,000 of firefighter benefits in taxable year 2023, up to $30,000 in taxable year 2024, and up to $40,000 in taxable year 2025 and each year t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SB919 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; City of Petersburg. Adds the City of Petersburg to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB1490 | Intro
Sine Die | Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1377 | Intro
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. Prostitution; solicitation; penalties. Increases the penalty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N) |
| SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax on cigars. Modifies the statutory tax rate imposed on selling or distributing cigars by a distributor or remote retail seller by setting such rate at 10 percent of the manufacturer's sales price or $0.30 per cigar, whichever is less. Under curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 3-N 1-A) |
| SB947 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; candidates for office; political party nomination by non-primary method; filing fee. Allows political parties to charge a filing fee for methods of nomination other than a primary and sets a cap on such fee. The maximum filing fee is set a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; permits; electronic notification. Requires the Commissioner of the Marine Resources Commission to ensure that for any project under consideration for a permit issued by the Commission for any floating aquaculture or oyste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 5-N) |
| SB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; election results to be delivered by officers representing both major parties on election night. Requires ballots, election materials, and equipment keys to be returned to the clerk of the circuit court or the general r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections with letter (14-Y 1-N) |
| SB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | State and local prohibition on single-use plastic and expanded polystyrene products. Prohibits state agencies beginning July 1, 2024, from contracting for the purchase, sale, and distribution of (i) single-use plastic bags, cutlery, straws, or water ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (4-Y 10-N 1-A) |
| SB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; repeal. Repeals the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act and directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to take all steps necessary to suspend the Commonwealth's par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| SB1395 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; permits; navigable channels. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any permit for (i) the use of state-owned bottomlands that would obstruct any marked or unmarked navigable channel regularly used by boat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 5-N) |
| SB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Water control; agricultural exemptions; terracing. Establishes a definition for "terrace" as used in the agricultural exemptions to the prohibition on land-disturbing activities in the Stormwater Management Act and the Erosion and Sediment Control La...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-24
Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | Use, display, or concealment of firearm in committing certain felonies; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of a separate felony if he carries about his person any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other firearm that is hidden from common observation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| SB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of garbage and refuse pickup and disposal services; exclusive service areas; Planning District 8. Grants localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) authority to establish exclusive service areas and award such service areas to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (10-Y 3-N) |
