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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Parole Board; decision requirements, annual reports. [SB-1247]
Parole Board; decision requirements; annual reports. Requires the Parole Board, prior to making any decision to grant discretionary parole to an inmate, to discuss and debate such decision at a meeting at which all Board members are present. The bill requires, in cases in which the Board grants discretionary parole to an inmate, each Board member to identify his reasoning for such decision at the time such member's vote is cast. The bill requires that parole review hearings include a live interview of the prisoner, which may be conducted in person
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
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Public pools; Board of Health to adopt regulations. [HB-1917]
Public pools; regulations. Directs the Board of Health to adopt regulations governing swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated for public use, including swimming pools and other water recreational facilities operated in conjunction with a tourist facility or health spa.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Students with disabilities; assessment frequency. [HB-1884]
Standards of Learning assessment revision work group; consideration of effectiveness of assessments for students with disabilities. Requires the work group established by the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to study and develop a plan relating to revisions to Standards of Learning assessments to consider the effectiveness of assessments for students with disabilities, including the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program for those students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, and the use of those assessments
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Wampler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0157) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetlands; Virginia Marine Resources Commission to review certain guidelines. [HB-1950]
Virginia Marine Resources Commission; wetland mitigation site; improving and enhancing tidal wetlands. Directs the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) to review and update its "Guidelines for Establishment, Use and Operation of Tidal Wetland Mitigation Banks in Virginia" (January 1, 1998) and its regulations, Wetlands Mitigation-Compensation Banks and Supplemental Guidelines (the Guidelines). The bill requires VMRC to consider provisions relating to the generation of vegetated and unvegetated wetland credits from wetland creation, restoration,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bloxom
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0334) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Treasury Board; powers and duties. [HB-1912]
Treasury Board; powers and duties. Provides that the Treasury Board shall have the power and duty to make recommendations to the Governor on bonds, public-private partnerships, or other financing arrangements executed by private foundations for housing or other capital projects with respect to which an educational institution that is not a covered institution is obligated to provide financial or other types of support.
Sponsored by: Rep. Amanda Batten
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0161) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Marine Resources Commission and local wetlands boards; permit applications, public notice. [SB-1160]
Marine Resources Commission and local wetlands boards; permit applications; public notice. Requires notices to the public for certain permit hearings relating to fisheries and habitat of the tidal waters to be posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall website and reduces the frequency at which such hearing notices are required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation from once a week for two weeks to at least once in the seven days prior to such hearing. The bill allows the Marine Resources Commission or a local wetlands board to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0195) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Septic systems; loans to local governments or other entities. [HB-1941]
Loans to local governments; repair or upgrade to onsite sewage disposal systems. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to provide loans from the Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund to a local government for the purpose of correcting onsite sewage disposal problems (small water facility projects) to protect or improve water quality and prevent the pollution of state waters. The bill allows loan funding for repairs or upgrades to onsite sewage disposal systems that are owned by eligible businesses, defined in relevant law, where public health
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0097) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Uniform Statewide Building Code; stop work orders, appeals. [SB-1263]
Uniform Statewide Building Code; stop work orders; appeals of State Building Code Technical Review Board decisions; recovery of costs. Defines stop work orders for the purposes of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. The bill provides that if, during an appeal pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Process Act of the State Building Code Technical Review Board's decision with respect to the issuance of a stop work order by a local building official, the court finds in favor of the party that was issued the stop work order, such party shall
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0448) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Waterworks and wastewater works operators; license reciprocity. [HB-1940]
Waterworks and wastewater works operators; license reciprocity. Requires the Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals, upon application by an individual, and without examination, to recognize licenses or certificates issued by another state as fulfillment of qualifications for licensure in the Commonwealth if certain conditions are met.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Runion
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0632) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Regulations governing use of seclusion and restrain in schools; applies to school security officers. [HB-1981]
Board of Education; Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Virginia; school security officers and school resource officers. Requires the Board of Education's Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Virginia to apply to school security officers and school resource officers and requires the Board to make such amendments to such regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of the bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act; regulations, effective date. [SB-1168]
Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act; regulations; effective date. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations to implement before July 1, 2024, the requirements of amendments to the Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act enacted by the 2016 Session and amended by the 2017 Session and delays from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2024, the effective date of the amendments made by the 2016 Session and regulations required to be adopted pursuant thereto. The bill also directs such adopted regulations to include the reduction
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0666) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Legislator Compensation Commission; established, report. [HB-1937]
General Assembly; Legislator Compensation Commission established. Establishes the Legislator Compensation Commission, to be formed every four years for the purpose of reviewing the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments received by members of the General Assembly and determining whether any adjustments to salaries or allowances are needed. The Commission shall consist of two former Governors, two former members of the Senate of Virginia, and two former members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Joint
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Installation, etc., of devices in highway right-of-way; law-enforcement purposes, penalty. [SB-1165]
Commonwealth Transportation Board; regulation authority. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of systems of state highways includes the use of devices in the right-of-way of such highways for law-enforcement purposes. The bill authorizes the Department of State Police or chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install, maintain, and operate devices for law-enforcement purposes on highways maintained by VDOT. The bill requires that all data collected by such devices be purged
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Natural organic reduction; establishment of facilities. [HJR-513]
Study; Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers; creation, operation, and duties of natural organic reduction, or human composting, facilities as cemetery corporations. Directs the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to study the creation, operation, and duties of natural organic reduction, also known as green burial or human composting, facilities as cemetery corporations; to develop recommendations for establishing natural organic reduction facilities in the Commonwealth; and to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Racing Commission; powers and duties, ratio of live racing days. [HB-1997]
Virginia Racing Commission; powers and duties; ratio of live racing days to number of historical horse racing terminals. Provides that the Virginia Racing Commission (the Commission) shall promulgate regulations requiring, for each calendar year, any significant infrastructure limited licensee that offers pari-mutuel wagering on historical horse racing to hold at least one live Thoroughbred horse racing day, consisting of not less than eight races per day, for every 100 historical horse racing terminals installed at its significant infrastructure
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0590) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Racing Commission; powers and duties, ratio of live racing days. [SB-1212]
Virginia Racing Commission; powers and duties; ratio of live racing days to number of historical horse racing terminals. Provides that the Virginia Racing Commission (the Commission) shall promulgate regulations requiring, for each calendar year, any significant infrastructure limited licensee that offers pari-mutuel wagering on historical horse racing to hold at least one live Thoroughbred horse racing day, consisting of not less than eight races per day, for every 100 historical horse racing terminals installed at its significant infrastructure
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0591) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Fund and Program; created. [HB-1842]
Economic development; Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Fund and Program. Creates the Virginia Business Ready Sites Acquisition Program for the purposes of (i) acquiring sites for the purpose of creating and maintaining a portfolio of project-ready sites to promote economic development in the Commonwealth, (ii) developing such sites to increase their marketability, and (iii) entering into development agreements with private employers for large-scale economic development projects. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority shall
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barry Knight
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0779) on 04/12/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Employment Commission; Commissioner shall have authority to issue subpoenas, etc. [SB-1120]
Virginia Employment Commission; attorney authorization; powers. Provides that the Commissioner of the Virginia Employment Commission may authorize any attorney employed by the Commission to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records deemed necessary as evidence in connection with the investigation or adjudication of any disputed claim or the administration of the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act. The bill permits any party to file a motion to quash
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Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0103) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements. [HB-1846]
Medical marijuana program; product, registration, dispensing, and recordkeeping requirements; advertising. Amends and adds numerous provisions regarding the Commonwealth's medical marijuana program, including provisions related to recordkeeping, product registration, allowable deviations, dispensing, packaging, labeling, and advertising. The bill requires pharmaceutical processors and cannabis dispensing facilities to collect and provide to the Board of Pharmacy by July 1, 2024, data regarding implementation of the bill. The bill also requires the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0780) on 04/12/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Affordable and workforce housing; Va. Housing Commission, et al., to study local regulation. [HJR-507]
Study; Virginia Housing Commission; affordable housing; local regulation; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Development and representatives of the Governor's office, to develop recommended revisions to Chapter 22 (§ 15.2-2200 et seq.) of Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia to (i) streamline and enhance predictability in local development review processes and (ii) alleviate the effects of local policies or ordinances that contribute to increased housing costs and constrain
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Left In Rules on 02/07/2023