Data center development; DOE to study impacts on Virginia's environment, etc. [HJR-522]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Economic Development ]
[Climate Change ]
[Data Privacy ]
Study; Department of Energy; impacts of data center development; report. Directs the Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on Virginia's environment, economy, energy resources, and ability to meet carbon-reduction goals.
HJR-522: Data center development; DOE to study impacts on Virginia's environment, etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danica Roem
Left In Rules on 02/07/2023
Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations. [HB-1986]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Construction ]
Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require certain stormwater management techniques for land disturbances related to the construction, expansion, or operation of enterprise data center operations, as defined in the bill, that are located within one mile of any land owned or operated as a unit of the National Park Service or designated as a Virginia State Park or state forest.
HB-1986: Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danica Roem
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/07/2023
Human trafficking; continuing education required for biennial renewal of licensure. [SB-1147]
[Human Rights ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Education ]
Board of Medicine; continuing education; human trafficking. Requires that, of the hours of continuing education required for renewal of licensure, any licensee of the Board of Medicine may be required by the Board of Medicine to complete up to two hours of continuing learning activities or courses in a specific subject area. Under the bill, if the Board of Medicine designates a subject area for continuing learning activities or courses, the first subject area shall be on the topic of human trafficking.
SB-1147: Human trafficking; continuing education required for biennial renewal of licensure.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0419) on 03/23/2023
License taxes and fees, local; exemptions, blog or online website. [HB-1920]
[Taxes ]
[Small Business ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Economic Development ]
Local license taxes and fees; exemptions; blog or online website. Prohibits a county, city, or town from imposing a license fee or levying a license tax on the privilege or right of publishing any blog or online website containing daily or regularly updated news, feature articles, advertisements, or correspondence, provided that such blog or online website employs full time at least one journalist who has a Virginia taxable income.
HB-1920: License taxes and fees, local; exemptions, blog or online website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Finance on 02/07/2023
Data center development; DOE to study impacts on Virginia's environment, etc., cryptocurrency mining [SJR-240]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Climate Change ]
[Economic Development ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Study; Department of Energy; impacts of data center development; report. Directs the Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on Virginia's environment, economy, energy resources, and ability to meet carbon-reduction goals. Study; Department of Energy; impacts of data center development; report. Directs the Department of Energy to study the impacts of data center development on Virginia's environment, economy, energy resources, and ability to meet carbon-reduction goals.
SJR-240: Data center development; DOE to study impacts on Virginia's environment, etc., cryptocurrency mining
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Left In Rules on 02/22/2023
Va. Public Procurement; competitive negotiation, localities to post public notice on website. [HB-1611]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; allows localities to post public notice on appropriate websites. Removes the requirement that if a local public body elects not to publish notice of a Request for Proposal in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the contract is to be performed, then such local public body shall post such notice on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website. The bill allows local public bodies to post such notice on any appropriate website without requiring
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HB-1611: Va. Public Procurement; competitive negotiation, localities to post public notice on website.
Sponsored by: Sen. Angelia Williams Graves
Stricken From House Calendar on 01/16/2023
Va. Public Procurement; competitive negotiation, localities to post public notice on website. [SB-859]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Economic Development ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; allows localities to post public notice on appropriate websites. Removes the requirement that if a local public body elects not to publish notice of a Request for Proposal in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the contract is to be performed, then such local public body shall post such notice on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website. The bill allows local public bodies to post such notice on any appropriate website without requiring
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SB-859: Va. Public Procurement; competitive negotiation, localities to post public notice on website.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Passed By Indefinitely In General Laws And Technology With Letter (14-y 0-n) on 01/11/2023
Sales tax; data center exemption. [SB-736]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
Sales tax; data center exemption. Reduces the new job creation requirement from 50 to 25 for the sales tax exemption for data center operators.
SB-736: Sales tax; data center exemption.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/21/2022
Sales tax; data center exemption. [SB-736]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
Sales tax; data center exemption. Reduces the new job creation requirement from 50 to 25 for the sales tax exemption for data center operators.
SB-736: Sales tax; data center exemption.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Continued To 2023 In Finance And Appropriations (11-y 5-n) on 02/08/2022
Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, media-related exemptions. [SB-683]
[Taxes ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Makes changes to the sales and use tax exemption for amplification, transmission, and distribution equipment used to provide Internet services. Under the bill, the exemption would apply to network equipment used to provide Internet service, regardless of whether the provider of such service is also a telephone common carrier or whether such network is also used to provide services other than Internet services.
SB-683: Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, media-related exemptions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0435) on 04/11/2022
Lists of persons voting at elections; creation of searchable public lists prohibited. [SB-698]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Data Privacy ]
Elections; lists of persons voting at elections; creation of searchable public lists prohibited. Prohibits the recipient of a list of registered voters from publishing on the Internet any of the information contained in such list as a list, database, or other similar searchable format or providing information contained in a list of registered voters to a third party for such purpose.
SB-698: Lists of persons voting at elections; creation of searchable public lists prohibited.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0445) on 04/11/2022
Broadband affordability plan; Department of Housing and Community Development to develop, report. [SB-716]
[Telecommunications ]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Department of Housing and Community Development; broadband affordability plan. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan, to be known as the Commonwealth Digital Affordability and Cost Effectiveness Plan, to access federal funding under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill requires that the Plan include (i) an overview of options for affordable broadband connectivity in the Commonwealth; (ii) recommendations on how best to leverage federal grants addressing broadband affordability; (iii)
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SB-716: Broadband affordability plan; Department of Housing and Community Development to develop, report.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0519) on 04/11/2022
Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications, report. [SB-764]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Health ]
Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications. Requires every public body to report to the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center all known incidents that threaten the security of the Commonwealth's data or communications or result in exposure of data protected by federal or state laws and all other incidents compromising the security of the public body's information technology systems with the potential to cause major disruption to normal activities of the public body or other public bodies. The bill requires such reports
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SB-764: Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications, report.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0627) on 04/11/2022
Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications, report. [HB-1290]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Health ]
Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications. Requires every public body to report to the Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center all known incidents that threaten the security of the Commonwealth's data or communications or result in exposure of data protected by federal or state laws and all other incidents compromising the security of the public body's information technology systems with the potential to cause major disruption to normal activities of the public body or other public bodies. The bill requires such reports
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HB-1290: Public bodies; security of government databases and data communications, report.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.E. Hayes
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0626) on 04/11/2022
Broadband affordability plan; Department of Housing and Community Development to develop, report. [HB-1265]
[Telecommunications ]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Department of Housing and Community Development; broadband affordability plan. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan, to be known as the Commonwealth Digital Affordability and Cost Effectiveness Plan, to access federal funding under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill requires that the Plan include (i) an overview of options for affordable broadband connectivity in the Commonwealth; (ii) recommendations on how best to leverage federal grants addressing broadband affordability; (iii)
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HB-1265: Broadband affordability plan; Department of Housing and Community Development to develop, report.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0518) on 04/11/2022
Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, media-related exemptions. [HB-1155]
[Taxes ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Makes changes to the sales and use tax exemption for amplification, transmission, and distribution equipment used to provide Internet services. Under the bill, the exemption would apply to network equipment used to provide Internet service, regardless of whether the provider of such service is also a telephone common carrier or whether such network is also used to provide services other than Internet services.
HB-1155: Retail Sales and Use Tax; definitions, media-related exemptions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0434) on 04/11/2022
Data centers; center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, etc. [SB-513]
[Property Tax ]
[Real Estate ]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Property tax; data centers. Provides that if data center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, they shall be valued based on depreciated reproduction or replacement cost, rather than based on the amount of income they generate.
SB-513: Data centers; center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0672) on 04/11/2022
Health care providers; health records of minors, available via secure website. [HB-916]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Health care providers; health records of minors; available via secure website. Provides that every hospital and health care provider that makes patients' health records available to such patients through a secure website shall make all health records of a patient who is a minor available to such patient's parent through such secure website unless the hospital or health care provider cannot make such health record available in a manner that prevents disclosure of information, the disclosure of which has been denied by a health care provider or for
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HB-916: Health care providers; health records of minors, available via secure website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0218) on 04/08/2022
Blockchain technology & cryptocurrency; jt. subcommittee to study emergence and integration, etc. [HJR-30]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Finance ]
[Economic Development ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Study; joint subcommittee; emergence and integration of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in the economy of the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a 20-member, two-year joint subcommittee to identify research and economic development opportunities to inform a statewide, comprehensive, and coordinated strategy and a potential regulatory framework relating to blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.
HJR-30: Blockchain technology & cryptocurrency; jt. subcommittee to study emergence and integration, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Karrie Delaney
Left In Rules on 02/15/2022
State correctional facilities; communication systems, free telephone calls & communication services. [HB-621]
[Crime ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Communication systems within state correctional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving the communication.
HB-621: State correctional facilities; communication systems, free telephone calls & communication services.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022