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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. [SB-781]
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 later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Incorporated By Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 01/17/2023
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State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. [SB-782]
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 later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Incorporated By Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 01/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
STEM+C; included in Standards of Learning, Bd. of Education to incorporate certain provisions. [HB-221]
STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list of topics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubric that shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Tax practitioners; work group to consider discussion process, etc. [HB-1368]
Department of Taxation; policies and procedures; work group. Directs the Department of Taxation to convene a work group for the purpose of studying the Department's current policies and procedures in order to determine options for a mechanism for tax practitioners to provide feedback to the Department on an ongoing basis. Department of Taxation; policies and procedures; work group. Directs the Department of Taxation to convene a work group for the purpose of studying the Department's current policies and procedures in order to determine options
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0164) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
MEI Project Approval Commission; incentives requiring review. [HB-458]
MEI Project Approval Commission; incentives requiring review. Adds to the incentive packages for economic development, film, and episodic television projects that require MEI Project Approval Commission (the Commission) review and approval any incentive package in which one of the incentives being sought includes a cash payment of more than $3.5 million from any fund prior to any performance metrics being met by the proposed project. The bill clarifies that in calculating whether the value of proposed incentives exceeds $10 million and thus requires
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Bulova
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Paid family and medical leave program; Virginia Employment Commission required to establish. [SB-1]
Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2025. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees for family and medical leave. Funding for the program is provided through premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning in 2024. The amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed 80 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Commerce And Labor on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Behavioral Health Commission; increases membership. [HB-1232]
Behavioral Health Commission; membership. Adds two nonlegislative citizen members who have received or are receiving services from the Commonwealth's behavioral health system, one nonlegislative citizen member who is a local law-enforcement officer serving a jurisdiction located in the Commonwealth, one nonlegislative citizen member who is a behavioral health services provider providing services in the Commonwealth, and one nonlegislative citizen member who is a certified peer recovery specialist or registered peer recovery specialist to the membership
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Left In Rules on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Freestanding emergency departments; Bd. of Health to promulgate regulations related to departments. [SB-340]
Freestanding emergency departments. Requires the Board of Health to promulgate regulations related to freestanding emergency departments, defined in the bill as facilities located in the Commonwealth that (i) provide emergency services, (ii) are owned and operated by a licensed hospital and operate under the hospital's license, and (iii) are located on separate premises from the primary campus of the hospital. The bill also requires freestanding emergency departments to make certain disclosures to patients, in advertisements, and on any online platforms
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker
Left In Education And Health on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations, low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. [SB-778]
State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards for vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Incorporated By Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 01/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Education, Board of; policies for codes of student conduct, contents. [HB-1124]
Board of Education; school boards; codes of student conduct; contents. Requires the Board of Education's guidelines and model policies for codes of student conduct to include a requirement that any code of student conduct is enforced and any student behavioral intervention or disciplinary method or measure is utilized in a fair, proportional, unbiased, and neutral manner, for the sole purpose of maintaining safe learning environments, and with full and sole consideration of the student's behavior and with no consideration of any individual immutable
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Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Anderson
Left In Education on 11/22/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. [SB-779]
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 later. The bill prohibits the Board from adopting or enforcing any model year standards related to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, including low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle standards pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act and prohibits the Commonwealth
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
Passed By Indefinitely In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (8-y 7-n) on 01/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Peninsula Airport Commission; adds to membership. [HB-1085]
Peninsula Airport Commission. Adds to the Peninsula Airport Commission (the Commission) two members from the City of Poquoson, two members from the City of Williamsburg, one member from James City County, and one member from York County, appointed by the governing bodies thereof. The bill provides that any such locality is automatically excluded from the Commission if it fails to pay its proportionate share of the cost of participation by June 30, 2023. The bill repeals various provisions authorizing certain localities to join the Commission upon
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Sponsored by: Rep. Aijalon Cordoza
Left In Transportation on 11/22/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pharmacy, Board of; safe sharps disposal containers required for pharmacies for public use. [HB-712]
Board of Pharmacy; safe sharps disposal. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to amend its regulations to require all pharmacies to provide and maintain a safe sharps disposal container on the premises of the pharmacy for public use.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 11/22/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; comprehensive review of labor statistics categories. [SB-261]
Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; comprehensive review of labor statistics categories; report. Directs the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board (the Board) to perform a comprehensive review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics categories within the standard occupational classification system and assess deficit areas that do not capture Virginia's existing STEM+C (Computing) workforce profile for the purpose of better aligning K-12 and higher education priorities. The Board shall report its
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations, low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. [HB-1372]
State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. Repeals the State Air Pollution Control Board's authority to implement low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards for vehicles with a model year of 2025 and later.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Stricken From Docket By Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources (22-y 0-n) on 01/18/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission. [SB-773]
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Commission. Provides that failure of an oyster lease holder to respond to a wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission request regarding an application within 30 days of receipt of such request shall be deemed to be consent to the application.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established, drug cost affordability review, report. [SB-376]
Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board for the purpose of protecting state residents, state and local governments, commercial health plans, health care providers, pharmacies licensed in the Commonwealth, and other stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products. Prescription Drug Affordability Board; established; drug cost affordability review. Establishes the Prescription Drug Affordability Review
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Left In Commerce And Labor on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Parole Board; increases membership, records, monthly report. [SB-135]
Virginia Parole Board; membership; records; report. Increases from five to 11 the number of members to be appointed to the Virginia Parole Board (the Board). The bill requires the Board to (i) include in its monthly report regarding actions taken by the Board on the parole of prisoners the number of votes in favor of granting or denying parole of each prisoner and (ii) ensure that any records, reports, or other documents used to determine a person's suitability for parole be made available for review by such person or his counsel pursuant to Board
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Rehabilitation And Social Services on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2022 Special I
Correctional facilities, local and regional; fees associated with inmates. [HB-1053]
Local correctional facilities; fees. Directs the State Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board) to convene a work group to review and make recommendations regarding the reduction or elimination of costs and fees charged to inmates in local or regional correctional facilities, including fees related to the costs of an inmate's keep, work release, or participation in educational or rehabilitative programs; telephone services; commissaries; and electronic visitation systems. The bill requires the Board to report its findings and recommendations
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0013) on 08/04/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission. [SB-773]
Oyster lease holders; response to wetlands board or Commission. Provides that failure of an oyster lease holder to respond to a wetlands board or Virginia Marine Resource Commission request regarding an application within 30 days of receipt of such request shall be deemed to be consent to the application.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Continued To 2023 In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (15-y 0-n) on 02/08/2022