VA Legislation | 2023 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1455	Engross 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]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (8-Y 7-N)
HB1871	Engross Sine Die	Concealed handgun permit; period of validity. Extends from five years to 10 years the period during which a concealed handgun permit remains valid. The bill also provides that if a valid concealed handgun permit holder presents a written notice of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB2167	Engross 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 at any other workplace of the same employ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB1523	Engross 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. The bill increases the fines from $100 to $1000 and from $500... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB1603	Engross Sine Die	Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction during confinement. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and reduces enhanc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB2461	Engross Sine Die	Secretary of Finance; COVID-19 penalty reimbursements; sunset. Requires all state agencies to report to the Secretary of Finance the total amount of fines, fees, and interest imposed on individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, including ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 6-N)
SB1234	Engross Sine Die	Transcranial magnetic stimulation; pilot program. Requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a pilot program to make electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation available for veterans, fir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
SB1386	Engross Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; tuition and financial aid; dependency override application form. Requires each public institution of higher education to create and maintain a form by which a student may apply for a dependency override, defin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
HB1954	Engross Sine Die	Killing the fetus of another; manslaughter; penalties. Provides that any person who kills the fetus of another by an intentional act committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB1898	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employs more than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase order in excess ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N)
SB1104	Engross Sine Die	Department of Medical Assistance Services; violence prevention services benefit work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to advise the Board of Medical Assistance Services on the design and imp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Tabled in Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
SB1269	Engross Sine Die	Auxiliary grants; independent community living. Allows the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to provide auxiliary grants to eligible recipients residing in independent community living, as defined in the bill, under conditions set fort... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
SB926	Engross Sine Die	Emergency Department Care Management Grant Program and Fund; report. Establishes the Emergency Department Care Management Grant Program and the Emergency Department Care Management Grant Fund. The bill provides that the Program is established to prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Tabled in Appropriations (12-Y 10-N)
HB1953	Engross Sine Die	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]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N)
HB2360	Engross Sine Die	Firearms-related offenses; mandatory minimum sentences; penalty. Increases from five to 10 years for a second or subsequent offense the mandatory minimum sentences for use or display of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies. Firearms-r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB1810	Engross Sine Die	Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects local government employees from being penalized by their employer for expressing their opinion regarding a current or proposed regulati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-15 Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N)
HB2234	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration; registering in person up to and including the day of the election; limited to certain persons. Provides that only members of a uniformed service, as defined in relevant law, persons who are residing temporarily outside of the Unit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB1444	Engross Sine Die	Elections; voter identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB1793	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles; optional transmission of information. Provides that customers of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall be presented with the option to have their relevant information transmitted to the De... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB1910	Engross Sine Die	Absentee voting; unsolicited absentee ballot applications; required information; penalty. Requires any organization sending an application for an absentee ballot to a registered voter that was not solicited or requested by the registered voter to inc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N)
HB1947	Engross Sine Die	Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list. Eliminates the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ba... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
SB1503	Engross Sine Die	Social Work Advisory Board; established; report. Establishes the Social Work Advisory Board to advise the Governor on efforts to improve the social work profession in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Social Work Advisory Board to report annual... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Tabled in Rules (12-Y 6-N)
SB1307	Engross Sine Die	University of Virginia; board of visitors; membership. Expands the membership of the University of Virginia board of visitors to include two nonvoting advisory members consisting of one faculty member of the University and one staff member of the Uni... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N)
HB1366	Engross Sine Die	Executive branch agencies; posting of regulations. Executive branch agencies; posting of regulations. Requires all executive branch agencies to post on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall at each stage of the regulatory process any agency action that i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 7-N)
HB1378	Engross Sine Die	State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. Repeals the requirement that the State Air Pollution Control Board implement a low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle program for motor vehicles with a model year of 2025 and lat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N)
HB1890	Engross Sine Die	Public institutions of higher education; guaranteed admission for certain veterans; report. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to provide for the guaranteed admission of any eligible vetera... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 6-N)
SB1474	Engross Sine Die	Department of Health; mobile food units. Directs the Department of Health to amend its regulations and each local health department and health district to amend its regulations and guidance documents relating to mobile food units to allow up to 20 pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Failed to report (defeated) in Health, Welfare and Institutions (10-Y 10-N)
HB1877	Engross Sine Die	Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to an el... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB1821	Engross Sine Die	Education improvement scholarships tax credits. Expands the education improvement scholarships tax credit program for taxable years 2023 through 2027 by (i) increasing from 65 percent to 100 percent the credit amount for the value of the monetary or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N)
HB1693	Engross Sine Die	Absentee voting; return of absentee ballots; drop-off locations. Repeals the provisions of the Code providing for the establishment of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB2257	Engross Sine Die	Elections; local offices; election of council for cities and towns; exemption from district-based and ward-based restrictions for small localities. Exempts any city or town with a population of 25,000 or fewer persons that imposes district-based or w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
HB1680	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration; registration after the close of registration records; required affirmation. Requires the Department of Elections to prescribe procedures for the handling and counting of ballots cast by persons who register to vote on the day of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)
SB1248	Engross Sine Die	MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Prohibits the MEI Project Approval Commission from recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project for a business that does not have and does n... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N)
HB2454	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration; monthly list maintenance. Requires the Department of Elections to conduct and complete voter list maintenance monthly using change of address information supplied by the United States Postal Service, except that such list maintena... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
HB1780	Engross Sine Die	Small modular reactor plant revenue-sharing agreement among certain localities. Requires the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell, and Wise and the City of Norton to enter into a perpetual revenue-sharing agreement regarding... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 6-N)
HB1377	Engross Sine Die	Voter registration; cancellation for persons known Voter registration; cancellation for persons known to be deceased or disqualified to vote; deadline. Requires the general registrar to cancel the voter registration of persons known by him to be dece... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
SB932	Engross Sine Die	Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board established; report; Drug Control Act reclassification of psilocybin. Establishes the Virginia Psilocybin Advisory Board to develop a long-term strategic plan for establishing therapeutic access to psilocybin servic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-14 Tabled in Rules (13-Y 5-N)
SB1325	Engross Sine Die	Standard of Quality 2; specialized student support position ratio. Amends Standard of Quality 2 by increasing the required number of specialized student support positions from at least three to at least four such positions per 1,000 students. Such sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
SB1045	Engross Sine Die	School boards; school building maintenance capital target. Requires each local school board to establish and include in any multiyear capital improvement plan or substantially similar document that it adopts a school building maintenance capital targ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N)
HB1958	Engross Sine Die	Campgrounds; inherent risks; liability. Provides that a person who goes camping at a campground shall be presumed to have known the inherent risks of camping, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that a campground professional, as defined in the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB1642	Engross Sine Die	Felony homicide; certain drug offenses; penalty. Provides that a person is guilty of felony homicide, which constitutes second degree murder and is punishable by confinement of not less than five nor more than 40 years, if the underlying felonious ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (8-Y 6-N)
HB1672	Engross Sine Die	Resisting detention; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person to intentionally prevent or attempt to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully detaining him, defined in the bill as fleeing or attempting to flee from a law-enforcem... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
SB1260	Engross Sine Die	National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; name; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
SB1142	Engross Sine Die	Sports betting; adjusted gross revenue. Reduces the exclusion from a sports betting permit holder's adjusted gross revenue, on which it is taxed, all cash and the cash value of merchandise paid out as winnings to bettors, and the value of all bonuses... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)
SB994	Engross Sine Die	Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee, also created by the bill. The Committee is made up ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
SB1228	Engross Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; contributing private institutions of higher education. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers u... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Tabled in Appropriations (14-Y 7-N)
SB848	Engross Sine Die	Public school buildings and facilities; construction and renovation; renewable energy generation facilities; report. Directs the Commission on School Construction and Modernization, in consultation with the Department of Energy, to develop and make r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)
SB818	Engross Sine Die	Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction; mental health education; curriculum guidelines; instruction required. Requires each public elementary, middle, and high school to provide at each grade level, in addition to health ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Failed to report (defeated) in Education (10-Y 12-N)
HB1365	Engross Sine Die	Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill and for persons identified as being illegally present in the United States by U.S. Immigration... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
HB1380	Engross 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]	2023-02-13 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)