2023 Priority Legislation

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Cat	Number	Title	Patron	House	Senate	Governor	updated
2023 Priority Bills
rights	HB 1391 Support	Commission on Social Media established; report. more... Establishes the 20-member Commission on social media to study and make recommendations on the impacts and harms to citizens caused by social media platforms hosting or amplifying content that includes threats or suggestions of physical violence or danger toward citizens, institutions, groups, associations, or physical structures of the Commonwealth.	Wendy Gooditis (D-HD10)	Tabled			1/31/23
education	HB 1497 Support	Teachers; required to be compensated at or above national average. more... Requires public school teachers to be compensated at a rate that is at or above the national average. Under current law, compensation at such rate is aspirational. ...	Kelly Convirs-Fowler (R-HD21)	Tabled			1/29/23
guns	HB 1515 Support	Auto sear; prohibition on use penalty. more... Makes it a Class 2 felony to possess or use an auto sear in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a crime of violence.	Dawn Adams	Tabled			1/30/23
campaign finance	HB 1551 Support	1551 Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures, electioneering communications, disclaimer. more... Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum.	Dan Helmer (D-HD40)	Tabled			2/1/23
campaign finance	HB 1552 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. more... Restricts personal use of campaign contributions.	Marcus B. Simon (D-HD53)	Tabled			2/1/23
education	HB 1560 Support	High school students; development of Title IX and sexual harassment prevention training modules. more... Requires the Department of Education to develop culturally appropriate, age-appropriate, and trauma-informed Title IX and sexual harassment prevention training modules concerning Title IX rights and protections, consent, and sexual harassment prevention and reporting and to make such training modules available to each school board for the education of high school students. ...	Vivian E. Watts (D-HD39)	Failed			1/18/23
education	HB 1566 Support	Public school teachers and other Standards of Quality-funded positions; compensation. more... Requires the Commonwealth to compensate its public school teachers at a rate that is competitive, defined in current law as at or above the national average teacher salary, in order to attract and keep highly qualified teachers. Current law declares it the policy of the Commonwealth to compensate public school teachers at such competitive rate but does not require it. ...	Sam Rasoul (D-HD11)	Left			2/8/23
climate	HB 1604 Support	Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; regulation of rates. more... This bipartisan Act, will lower energy costs and put money back in Virginians' pockets by holding regulated utilities accountable for overcharging customers.	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Passed	Passed	Signed	8/31/23
campaign finance	HB 1648 Support	Contributions; prohibited from foreign-influenced corporations, required reports. more... Caps campaign finance donations/prohibits contributions from foreign-owned corporations.	Timothy Anderson (R-HD83)	Left			2/15/23
campaign finance	HB 1826 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. ...	Mike Cherry (R-HD66)	Tabled			2/1/23
climate	HB 1852 Support	HB 1852 Public school bldgs. & facilities; construction & renovation, renewable energy generation facility. more... Directs the Commission on School Construction and Modernization, in consultation with the Department of Energy, to develop and make recommendations on strategies to assist interested school divisions with incorporating renewable energy generation facilities in the construction or renovation of school buildings	Suhas Subramanyam (D-HD87)	Tabled			1/25/23
climate	HB 1853 Support	Public utilities; shared solar, minimum bill. more... Expands access and use of solar energy.	Suhas Subramanyam (D-HD87)	Tabled			1/24/23
rights	HB 1895 Support	Employee protection; prohibited retaliation; prohibited nondisclosure and nondisparagement. more... The Silenced No More Act, to strengthen a statute protecting employees from retaliatory termination by further protecting persons who speak out or discuss/disclose conduct believed to be illegal discrimination (including sexual assault and harassment), or waste, fraud or abuse, and to void and make unenforceable nondisclosure agreements (but for settlement amounts) and nondisparagement agreements (unless otherwise requested by the victim).	Eileen Filler-Corn	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/25/23 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 02/25/23 House: Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 1-N) 02/25/23 House: VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 1-N)	9/14/23
education	HB 1938 Support	Public schools; staffing ratios; school counselors with training or experience in mental health. more... Requires each school board to employ, in addition to the school counselors that it employs as otherwise required by law, at least one full-time school counselor with specialized training or experience in mental health per 1,000 students in grades kindergarten through 12.	Kenneth Plum (D-HD36)	Tabled			2/1/23
rights	HB 2003 Support	Employment; training and education; sexual harassment and workplace discrimination. more... Requires each employer with 50 or more employees, including the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions, to provide annual interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment and workplace discrimination by January 1, 2024.	Paul Krizek	Tabled			1/26/23
governance	HB 2050 Support	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings, local and regional public bodies. more... Expands electronic meeting access for regional and local public bodies.	Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker	Tabled			1/24/23
education	HB 2111 Support	Standards of Quality; work-based learning, teacher leaders and mentors, principal mentors. more... Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5. ...	Jeffrey Bourne(D-HD71)	Left			2/8/23
education	HB 2145 Support	Standards of Learning assessments; English language learner students; parental opt out. more... Requires each local school board to ensure that the parent of each English language learner student is notified of the option to not have his child take any Standards of Learning assessment. ...	Elizabeth R. Guzman (D-HD31)	Tabled			1/25/23
rights	HB 2148 Support	Employee protection; prohibited retaliation; prohibited nondisclosure and nondisparagement. more... A Know Your Rights Bill, to require employers to inform workers of their rights to file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. EEOC or Office of the Attorney General within 300 days after an alleged unlawful discriminatory practice occurred.	Elizabeth Guzman	Tabled			1/26/23
guns	HB 2240 Support	Prohibiting the sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, large-capacity firearm magazines. more... Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation of this provision of the bill is a Class 6 felony	Dan Helmer	PBI			1/30/23
climate	HB 2267 Support	Electric utilities; cost recovery; alternative to rate adjustment clause. more... Rate Adjustment Clause Reform. Protect Virginians from excessive surcharges on their electric bills by restoring the authority of regulators to determine the appropriate way for utilities to recover costs from customers.	Tony Wilt (R-HD26)	Passed	PBI		2/20/23
campaign finance	HB 2281 Support	Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; powers and duties; complaints; penalties. more... Authorizes the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to investigate alleged violations of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act (the Acts). ...	Irene Shin (D-HD86)	Left			2/8/23
governance	HB 2281 Support	Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; powers and duties; complaints; penalties. more... Strengthens Virginia ethics enforcement by expanding the role of the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council.	Irene Shin	Left			2/8/23
campaign finance	HB 2286 Support	Elections; campaign finance; contribution limits; civil penalty. more... Establishes contribution limits from any individual to any candidate campaign committee, political action committee, and political party committee and from any political action committee or political party committee to any campaign committee. ...	Schuyler VanValkenburg (D-HD72)	Tabled			2/1/23
guns	HB 2288 Support	Assault firearms; purchase; age requirement; penalty. more... Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill also expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.	Mark Sickles	Tabled			1/30/23
guns	HB 2350 Support	Firearms; storage in residence where minor present, penalty. more... Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet.	Marcus �Simon (D)	Tabled			1/5/24
rights	HJ 460 Support	Constitutional amendment; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition (1st reference) more... Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman.	Timothy Anderson (D-HD-83)	Left			2/8/23
climate	HJ 522 Support	Study; Department of Energy more... 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.	Danica A. Roem (D-HD-13)	Tabled			1/30/23
climate	HJ 545 Support	Clean energy; Dept. of Energy to study barriers for local governments to purchase. more... Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their constituents. ...	Briana D. Sewell (D-HD51)	Tabled			1/30/23
campaign finance	HR 242 Support	Elections; political independence of Virginians necessitates state control over election spending. more... Resolution supports a U.S. Constitutional amendment allowing Congress and the states to regulate election spending.	Vivian E. Watts (D-HD39)	Left			2/8/23
campaign finance	SB 803 Support	Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. more... Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly in any one election cycle. ...	Chapman Petersen (D-HD34)		PBI		1/18/23
campaign finance	SB 804 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates more... Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.	Chapman Petersen (D-SD34)		PBI		1/18/23
climate	SB 804 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. more... Restricts regulated utilities from making campaign contributions, and candidates and political committees from accepting such contributions.	Chap Petersen (D-SD34)		PBI		1/19/23
education	SB 818 Support	Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education. more... Requires each public elementary, middle, and high school to provide at each grade level, in addition to health instruction, an additional age-appropriate course of instruction on mental health. ...	Lionell Spruill (D-SD5)	Defeated	Passed		2/13/23
education	SB 819 Support	Public schools; Standards of Quality, early intervention services for reading and mathematics. more... Provides that each local school division is permitted to use any nationally recognized, research-based assessment or screener in identifying and assessing the progress of any student in need of reading or algebra readiness intervention services as an alternative to a diagnostic test that must be approved by the Department of Education.	Barbara Favola (D-SD31)		Stricken		2/2/23
climate	SB 848 Support	Public school bldgs. & facilities; construction & renovation, renewable energy generation facility. more... Expand access and use of solar energy and, under SB848, perform a study to assist interested school divisions with incorporating renewable energy generation facilities in the construction or renovation of K-12 school buildings.	Barbara Favola (D-SD31)	Tabled	Passed		2/13/23
campaign finance	SB 854 Support	Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; disclaimer requirements. more... Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum. ...	Barbara Favola (D-SD31)	PBI	Passed		2/15/23
education	SB 856 Support	Public elementary and secondary schools; comprehensive school counseling program. more... Requires each local school board to develop and implement a written plan for a comprehensive school counseling program for the purpose of providing support that meets the mental and emotional health needs of all students and guiding students in academic progress, postsecondary planning, and social-emotional learning. ...	Lionell Spruill (D-SD5)		PBI		1/29/23
voting rights	SB 907 Support	Elections; protection of election officials, penalty. more... Enhances the protections afforded election officials and expands the criminal penalties for hindering or preventing an official from administering an election.	Lionell Spruill	Tabled	Passed		2/14/23
guns	SB 909 Support	Firearms; transfers to another person from a prohibited person. more... Ensures that the firearms required to be relinquished under a protective order or assault and battery of a household member are actually relinquished.	Barbara A. Favola (D-SD31)	Tabled	Passed		2/10/23
guns	SB 918 Support	Assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices; carrying, sale, transfer, etc. more... Prohibits the sale of an assault firearm and a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as those terms are defined in the bill.	Joseph Morrissey		Incorp		1/24/23
campaign finance	SB 946 Support	Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. more... Prohibits campaign fundraising on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions of the General Assembly.	David Suetterlein (R-HD19)		Left		2/8/23
education	SB 1043 Support	Public education; student mental health and counseling, definitions, licensure requirements. more... Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, to develop, adopt, and distribute to each school board a model memorandum of understanding between a school board and a public or private community mental health services provider that sets forth parameters for the provision of mental health services to public school students enrolled in the local school division by such provider.	Jeremy McPike (D-SD29)	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/24/23 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 02/24/23 House: Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N) 02/24/23 House: VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N)	9/14/23
campaign finance	SB 1053 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates more... Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.	Jeremy McPike (D-SD29)	PBI	Passed		2/15/23
climate	SB 1083 Support	Shared solar programs; SCC to establish by regulation. more... Expand access and use of solar energy.	Scott Surovell (D-SD36)	Tabled	Passed		2/16/23
education	SB 1118 Support	Employment of teachers; English as a Second Language Incentive Reward Program and Fund;established. more... Provides that each local school board shall adopt employment policies and practices designed to promote the employment of highly qualified teachers to effectively serve the educational needs of students who are English language learners, including providing financial support for teachers seeking and obtaining an endorsement in English as a second language pre-kindergarten through grade 12. ...	Ghazala F. Hashmi (D-HD10)	Defeated	Passed		2/13/23
guns	SB 1139 Support	Firearms; storage in residence where minor present, penalty. more... Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows or reasonably should know that a minor under 18 years of age is present to store such firearm unloaded in a locked container, compartment, or cabinet and to store all ammunition in a separate locked container, compartment, or cabinet. ...	Jennifer Boysko (D-SD33)	Tabled	Passed		2/10/23
climate	SB 1166 Support	Energy planning and electric utility oversight; Commonwealth Energy Research Consortium established. more... Requires the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation (the Commission) to establish the Commonwealth Energy Research Consortium (the Consortium), consisting of public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth, to conduct energy research and policy analysis for the Commonwealth. ...	Scott A. Surovell (D-SD36)	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/25/23 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (31-Y 9-N) 02/25/23 House: Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 0-N) 02/25/23 House: VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 0-N)	8/31/23
guns	SB 1181 Support	Unfinished frames or receivers and unserialized firearms; sale, transfer, or purchase, penalty. more... Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor... for any person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, transfer, or purchase an unfinished frame or receiver ...	Ebbin (D)	Tabled	Passed		3/11/24
guns	SB 1192 Support	Assault firearms; carrying in public areas prohibited, penalty. more... Prohibits the carrying of certain semi-automatic center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns on any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public. ...	Ebbin (D)	Tabled	Passed		3/11/24
education	SB 1215 Support	Public school teachers and other Standards of Quality-funded positions; compensation. more... Requires the Commonwealth to compensate its public school teachers at a rate that is competitive, defined in current law as at or above the national average teacher salary, in order to attract and keep highly qualified teachers. ...	Louise Lucas (D-SD18)	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/23/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1215ER) 02/23/23 House: House insisted on amendments 02/23/23 House: House requested conference committee	9/14/23
rights	SB 1248 Support	MEI Project Approval Commission; board level gender and diversity requirements. more... Requires gender-balance and diverse members on the boards of corporations asking for incentives from the state of Virginia.	Louise Lucas (D-SD-18)	Tabled	Passed		2/14/23
education	SB 1257 Support	School counselors; staff time. more... 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 school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students and clarifies that each school counselor may also spend up to 20 percent of his staff time during normal school hours on program planning and support.	Barbara Favola (D-SD31)		Incorp		1/29/23
climate	SB 1266 Support	Public utilities; shared solar; minimum bill. more... Expand access and use of solar energy.	Scott Surovell (D-SD36)	Tabled	Passed		2/16/23
education	SB 1268 Support	School psychologists; staffing flexibility. more... 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 allowance for an additional two-year extension with the approval of the division superintendent, clinical psychologists licensed by the Board of Psychology, provided that any such individual makes progress toward completing the requirements for full licensure as a school psychologist during such period of employment.	Barbara Favola (D-SD31)		Incorp		1/29/23
guns	SB 1283 Support	Assault firearms; age requirement; penalty. more... Provides that in order to purchase an assault firearm a person must be 21 years of age or older. The bill expands the definition of "assault firearm" as the term applies to criminal history record information checks.	John S. Edwards		Incorp		1/24/23
climate	SB 1321 Support	Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; regulation of rates. more... Affordable Energy Act. This bipartisan bill restores the State Corporation Commission's ability to lower electric rates and prevent monopoly utilities from overcharging customers. Since 2009, Dominion Energy has overcharged Virginians by at least $1.9 billion.	Creigh Deeds (D-SD25)	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/21/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) 02/24/23 Senate: Enrolled 02/24/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1321ER)	8/31/23
education	SB 1325 Support	Standards of Quality; work-based learning, teacher leaders and mentors, principal mentors. more... Makes several changes to the Standards of Quality, including requiring the establishment of units in the Department of Education to oversee work-based learning and principal mentorship statewide and requiring the Board of Education to establish and oversee the local implementation of teacher leader and teacher mentor programs in Standard 5	Jennifer McClellan \| Ghazala Hashmi	Tabled	Passed		2/13/23
governance	SB 1328 Support	Removal of officers; elected officers and officers appointed to elected office; recall election. more... Reforms the recall process so that it can be carried out in a more fair and standardized manner without increasing the cost to localities or the state.	Jennifer L. McClellan \| Jennifer B. Boysko	Tabled	Passed		2/14/23
education	SB 1334 Support	Board of Education; Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting participant code of ethics. more... Directs the Board of Education to develop and enforce a code of ethics relating to appropriate participation and collaboration at Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings among school staff, parents, students, and any other invited participants. ...	Ghazala F. Hashmi (D-SD10)	Tabled	Passed		2/15/23
governance	SB 1351 Support	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings, local and regional public bodies. more... Expands electronic meeting access for regional and local public bodies.	David Marsden	Tabled	Passed		2/14/23
guns	SB 1382 Support	Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding. more... Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is defined in the bill, and prohibits a person who has been convicted of such violation from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm for a period of three years from the date of conviction.	Creigh Deeds	Tabled	Passed		2/10/23
climate	SB 1417 Support	Electric utilities; cost recovery; alternative to rate adjustment clause. more... Rate Adjustment Clause Reform. Protect Virginians from excessive surcharges on their electric bills by restoring the authority of regulators to determine the appropriate way for utilities to recover costs from customers.	David R. Suetterlein (R-SD19)		PBI		1/24/23
campaign finance	SB 1427 Support	Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures. more... Requires in-state political action committees to file a report for any single expenditure of $1,000 or more made between October 1 and the date of the November general election. ...	David Suetterlein (R-HD19)	Passed	Passed	Signed	8/31/23
campaign finance	SB 1471 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty. more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. ...	Jennifer B. Boysko (D-HD33)	Tabled	Passed		2/15/23
voting rights	SJ 223 Support	Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters and the right to vote (first reference). more... Amends the Virginia Constitution to restore voting rights to felons after they complete their sentences.	Mamie Locke	Tabled	Passed		2/17/23
education	SJ 228 Support	Students; qualification & training requirements of school personnel who administer health services. more... Directs the School Health Services Committee to study the feasibility of implementing the recommendations of the Department of Education relating to standardizing the qualification and training requirements for school personnel, such as school nurses, who administer health services to students in order to improve the equity, consistency, and quality of school health services, including mental health services, provided in public schools in the Commonwealth.	Barbara A. Favola (D-SD31)	Tabled	Passed		2/13/23
climate	SJ 240 Support	Study; Department of Energy; impacts of data center development; report. more... 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.	Chapman Petersen (D-SD34)	Tabled	Passed		2/13/23
justice	HB 1365 Oppose	Admission to bail; rebuttable presumptions against bail. more... 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 and Customs Enforcement who are charged with certain offenses. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the presumption against bail has been rebutted and whether there are appropriate conditions of release.	Wren M. Williams (R-HD9)	Passed	PBI		2/13/23
education	HB 1371 Oppose	Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. more... Establishes the Education Savings Account Program .. whereby the parent of any individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school may apply for an Education Savings Account for his child into which the Department of Education deposits certain state and local funds and from which the parent makes certain enumerated qualifying expenses to educate his child in a setting and a manner other than full-time education in a public school.	Phillip A. Scott (R-HD88)	Left			2/8/23
climate	HB 1372 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations; low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. more... 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.	Buddy Fowler(R-HD55)	Stricken			1/19/23
climate	HB 1378 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. more... 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. ...	Tony O. Wilt (R-HD26)	Passed	PBI		2/14/23
education	HB 1379 Oppose	Public elementary and secondary school libraries; catalog of printed and audiovisual materials, etc. more... Requires the principal of each public elementary or secondary school or his designee to (i) maintain in an electronic spreadsheet or a substantially similar electronic format a catalog of all printed and audiovisual materials ...	Timothy Anderson(R-HD83)	Passed	PBI		2/16/23
justice	HB 1380 Oppose	Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. more... 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 equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle, and the accompanying the exclusionary provisions.	Ronnie R. Campbell (deceased)	Passed	PBI		2/13/23
education	HB 1387 Oppose	K-12 schools/higher ed. institution; designation of interscholastic, etc., sports based on sex, etc. more... Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or by a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on biological sex: (i) males, men, or boys; (ii) females, women, or girls; or (iii) coed or mixed if participation on such team or sport is open to both (a) males, men, or boys and (b) females, women, or girls....	Karen Greenhalgh (R-HD85)	Passed	PBI		2/16/23
guns	HB 1393 Oppose	Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. more... Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.	Marie March (R-HD7)	Left			2/8/23
education	HB 1396 Oppose	Education Savings Account Program; established, Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits. more... Establishes the Education Savings Account Program .. whereby the parent of any individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school may apply for an Education Savings Account for his child into which the Department of Education deposits certain state and local funds and from which the parent makes certain enumerated qualifying expenses to educate his child in a setting and a manner other than full-time education in a public school.	Marie E. March (R-HD7)	PBI			1/25/23
education	HB 1399 Oppose	Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports; student participation; certain requirements. more... Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on each team member's biological sex at birth ...	Marie March (R-HD7)	Passed	PBI		2/16/23
justice	HB 1401 Oppose	Community Policing Act; repeals Act. more... Repeals the Community Policing Act that, under current law, prohibits law-enforcement officers and State Police officers from engaging in bias-based profiling in the performance of their official duties. The bill also repeals the provisions requiring the State Police to create the Community Policing Reporting Database into which sheriffs, police forces, and State Police officers report certain data pertaining to, among other law-enforcement activities, investigatory motor vehicle stops.	Marie March (R-HD7)	Failed			2/3/23
guns	HB 1420 Oppose	Carrying a concealed handgun; permit not required. more... Allows any person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a concealed handgun permit to carry a concealed handgun without a permit anywhere he may lawfully carry a handgun openly within the Commonwealth.	Bill Wiley (R-HD29)	Left			2/8/23
climate	HB 1430 Oppose	Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges, energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries. more... Defines EITE industries as companies that are constrained in their ability to pass through carbon costs due to international competition, companies that engage in importation of products that cause emission leakage, and critical infrastructure facilities identified by certain federal agencies. ...	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Passed	Stricken		2/20/23
rights	HB 1434 Oppose	Student records; name change, court order required. more... Prohibits any school board member or school board employee from changing the name of a student enrolled in the local school division on any education record relating to such student unless the member or employee receives a change of name order for such student that was issued in accordance with relevant law.	Jason S. Ballard (R-HD-12)	Tabled			1/26/23
education	HB 1434 Oppose	Student records; name change, court order required. more... Prohibits any school board member or school board employee from changing the name of a student enrolled in the local school division on any education record relating to such student unless the member or employee receives a change of name order for such student that was issued in accordance with relevant law.	Jason Ballard (R-HD12)	Tabled			1/29/23
justice	HB 1445 Oppose	Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses and odor of marijuana, exclusion of evidence. more... ... The bill also authorizes a law-enforcement officer to lawfully stop, search, or seize a person, place, or thing or a search warrant to be issued based solely on the odor of marijuana if such odor creates a reasonable suspicion of a violation of the law prohibiting driving while intoxicated.	Scott A. Wyatt (R-HD97)	Incorp			1/18/23
education	HB 1448 Oppose	Public school library materials; DOE to make recommendations, model policies, selection and removal. more... Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with local school boards, public school librarians, parents of public school students, and other interested stakeholders, to make recommendations to the General Assembly, the Board of Education, and local school boards ... on the adoption of model policies for the selection and removal of books ...	Robert D. Orrock (R-HD54)	Passed	PBI		2/16/23
climate	HB 1480 Oppose	Va. Clean Economy Act; non-bypassable charges, energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries. more... Directs the State Corporation Commission to establish an EITE customer exemption pilot program for non-bypassable charges in certain provisions of the Virginia Clean Economy Act related to generation of electricity from renewable and zero carbon sources and development of offshore wind capacity. ...	Lee Ware (R-HD65)	Stricken			1/19/23
education	HB 1508 Oppose	Virginia Education Success Account Program; established, report. more... Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply for a one-year, renewable Virginia Education Success Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per pupil share of special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. ...	Glenn Davis (R-HD84)	Left			2/8/23
justice	HB 1703 Oppose	Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. more... 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 equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle ...	Tara A. Durant (R-HD28)	Incorp			1/18/23
climate	HB 1770 Oppose	Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; retail competitiveness, review proceedings, etc. more... Restricts the ability of the State Corporation Commission to keep energy costs affordable.	Terry Kilgore (R-HD1)	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/25/23 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 02/25/23 House: Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 1-N) 02/25/23 House: VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 1-N)	8/31/23
climate	HB 1783 Oppose	Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice. more... Limits local authorities' ability to set building codes and permitting rules.	Israel O'Quinn (R-HD5)	Passed	PBI		2/13/23
justice	HB 2013 Oppose	Probation, revocation, and suspension of sentence; penalty. more... Makes changes to the definition of a technical violation as it pertains to the revocation of suspension of sentence and probation...also adds the offense of crimes against nature ... to the list of offenses for which if some period of the sentence for such offense is suspended, the judge is required to order that period of suspension be for the length of time equal to the statutory maximum period for which the defendant might originally have been sentenced to be imprisoned.	Les R. Adams (R-HD16)	Passed	Left		9/14/23
justice	HB 2384 Oppose	Marijuana; search and seizure; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated. more... Removes certain offenses, described in the bill, from the prohibition of searches without a search warrant for the odor of marijuana and establishes a presumption of intoxication if a person has a blood concentration equal to or greater than 0.003 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per liter of blood. ...	Les Adams \| (R-HD16)	Passed	PBI		2/14/23
climate	SB 778 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; regulations, low-emissions and zero-emissions vehicle standards. more... 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. ...	Richard H. Stuart (R-SD28)		Incorp		1/18/23
climate	SB 779 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. more... 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. ...	Stephen Newman (R-SD23)		PBI		1/18/23
climate	SB 781 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. more... 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. ...	Bill DeSteph (R-SD8)		Incorp		1/18/23
climate	SB 782 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. more... 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. ...	Bryce E. Reeves (R-SD17)		Incorp		1/18/23
climate	SB 785 Oppose	State Air Pollution Control Board; motor vehicle emissions standards. more... 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. ...	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		Incorp		1/18/23
education	SB 787 Oppose	Public school libraries; printed or audiovisual materials, selection, evaluation, & checkout proced. more... Requires each local school board to adopt policies addressing the selection and evaluation of all printed or audiovisual materials purchased by, donated to, or otherwise made available to the school division that will be made available to students in school libraries, with clear procedures for (i) mandatory prior written parental consent before a student is permitted to check out from the school library any such printed or audiovisual materials that depict a child engaged in the fondling of the	Bill DeSteph (R-SD8)		PBI		1/23/23
voting rights	SB 794 Oppose	Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. more... 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 required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement... Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		PBI		1/17/23
education	SB 823 Oppose	Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts; established, report. more... Diverts funding form public schools to parents in the name of school choice.	Amanda F. Chase (R-SD11)		PBI		1/29/23
voting rights	SB 834 Oppose	Absentee voting; permanent absentee voter list repealed. more... Repeals the provisions of law by which any registered voter may apply to receive absentee ballots for all elections in which he is eligible to vote and remain on the absentee voter list until the voter requests in writing to be removed from the list, the voter's registration is canceled or placed on inactive status pursuant to law, or the voter moves to a different address not in the same county or city of his registration.	Amanda Chase (R-SD11)		PBI		1/17/23
justice	SB 858 Oppose	Defendants; evidence of mental condition admissible, etc. more... Eliminates "mental illness" from the list of mental conditions for which a defendant may offer evidence to show his mental condition at the time of an alleged offense.	John Cosgrove (R-SD14)		PBI		1/19/23
justice	SB 875 Oppose	Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. more... 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 equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle, and the accompanying the exclusionary provisions.	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		PBI		2/1/23
justice	SB 877 Oppose	Admission to bail; act of violence. more... Provides that a magistrate shall not admit a person to bail who is charged with an act of violence without the consent of the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction in which the case it filed.	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		PBI		2/1/23
voting rights	SB 878 Oppose	Voter registration; noncitizens of the United States, penalty. more... Provides that a person who is not a citizen of the United States is not entitled to register to vote and makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to intentionally procure, assist, or induce another to register to vote knowing that such person is not a United States citizen.	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		PBI		1/17/23
voting rights	SB 880 Oppose	Absentee voting; absentee voting in person available beginning seven days prior to any election. more... Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to the week beginning seven days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 days prior to the election.	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		PBI		1/17/23
voting rights	SB 884 Oppose	Elections; registration, absentee voting, and conduct of election. more... Repeals provisions of law permitting registration on election day; requires an excuse to vote absentee; removes the option to vote absentee in person; requires absentee ballots to either be accompanied by a copy of an approved form of identification or be notarized;	Amanda Chase (R-SD11)		PBI		1/31/23
voting rights	SB 900 Oppose	Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. more... 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 required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.	Ryan McDougle (R-SD4)		Left		2/8/23
education	SB 911 Oppose	K-12 schools/higher ed. institutions; interscholastic, etc., sports, teams based on biological sex. more... Requires each public elementary or secondary school and each public institution of higher education to expressly designate all interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams and sports sponsored by such school based on biological sex ...	John A. Cosgrove (R-SD14)		Incorp		2/2/23
rights	SB 962 Oppose	Elementary and secondary schools; athletics; participation in female sports; civil cause of action. more... Requires each public elementary or secondary school and each private elementary or secondary school that competes in sponsored athletic events against such public schools to designate all interscholastic athletic teams and intramural athletic teams sponsored by such school based on biological sex.	Mark J. Peake R-SD-22)		PBI		2/2/23
education	SB 962 Oppose	Elementary and secondary schools; participation in female sports, civil cause of action. more... ... the bill creates a civil cause of action for students and schools that suffer harm as a result of a violation of the provisions of the bill, provided that such action is initiated within two years of the harm occurring.	Mark Peake(R-SD22)		PBI		2/2/23
voting rights	SB 965 Oppose	Voter registration; verification of social security numbers, provisional registration status. more... Requires the general registrar to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provided by an applicant on the voter registration application match the information on file in the Social Security Administration database or other database approved by the State Board of Elections before registering such applicant. ...	Mark J. Peake (R-SD)		PBI		1/17/23
voting rights	SB 967 Oppose	Voter registration; registering in person up to and including the day of the election. more... Provides that only members of a uniformed service, as defined in relevant law, persons who are residing temporarily outside of the United States, and spouses or dependents of such members or persons are entitled to register to vote after the close of registration records in person up to and including the day of the election. ...	Mark J. Peake (R-SD22)		PBI		1/17/23
voting rights	SB 968 Oppose	Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. more... 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 required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot.	Mark Peake (R-SD22)		Incorp		1/17/23
climate	SB 1001 Oppose	Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act; repeal. more... 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 participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative market-based trading program.	Richard Stuart (R-SD28)		PBI		1/26/23
justice	SB 1010 Oppose	Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. more... 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 equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle, and the accompanying the exclusionary provisions.	Bill DeSteph (R-SD8)		Incorp		2/1/23
climate	SB 1125 Oppose	Renewable energy portfolio standard requirements; State Corporation Commission authority, report. more... Requires electric utilities to petition the State Corporation Commission for relief from the requirements of certain provisions of the Code that mandate the retirement of electric generating units that are coal-fired or emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to generate electricity if such requirements would threaten the reliability or security of electric service to customers. ...	Travis Hackworth (R-SD38)		Failed		1/30/23
justice	SB 1229 Oppose	SB 1229 Admission to bail; creates rebuttable presumptions against bail. more... Creates a rebuttable presumption against bail for certain criminal offenses enumerated in the bill. The bill also requires the court to consider specified factors when determining whether the presumption against bail has been rebutted and whether there are appropriate conditions of release.	Mark Obenshain \| (R-SD26)		Failed		2/1/23
climate	SB 1265 Oppose	Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act; retail competitiveness, review proceedings, etc. more... Allows regulated investor-owned utilities to restrict the ability of the State Corporation Commission to keep energy costs affordable.	Richard L. Saslaw (D-SD35)	Passed	Passed	Signed 02/25/23 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) 02/25/23 House: Conference report agreed to by House (91-Y 1-N) 02/25/23 House: VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 1-N)	8/31/23
climate	SB 1485 Oppose	Natural gas utilities; retail supply choice. more... Allows every person access to distribution service or retail natural gas from a natural gas company authorized to provide natural gas service to the area where the service will be received. ...	Joseph Morrissey(D-SD16)		Stricken		1/30/23

No. of bills: 120

Note: The Rules Committees of both Chambers have limited the number of bills that individual members may introduce this Session: Senators have bill limits of 26, and Delegates have bill limits of 15.

General info

Introduced Bills by subject

Education bills

Continued from last session

2023 Session dates

Dec 12: Bills available
Jan 11: Session begins
Feb 8: Crossover*
Feb 15: Budget conferees named

Glossary

Dillon Rule. Restricts local government authority to enact ordinances.

Conference Committee. A temporary committee w. members from both the House and Senate, tasked with reconciling differences in legislation that passed both chambers.

Continued/Carried over. Action taken in an even-numbered year to postpone the consideration of a measure until the next regular session of the General Assembly.

Crossover. The last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced and move forward for consideration in the opposite chamber. If a bill does not move forward, it is "Left" (dead).

Engrossed. A legislative stage when a bill passes the second reading in the House of origin. Every bill has to be "read" on the floor three times before voting on it. The action or any debate or discussion usually comes on the day of the second reading or the third reading.

Enrolled. Legislation which has passed both the House of Delegates and the Senate, signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, sent to the Governor, but not yet signed.

Failed to report. Defeated. The rejection of a motion to 'report' a bill to the full chamber.

Incorporated. Rolled into someone another bill. Either because they're identical, or they have incorporated *some* of the language in, and the patron agreed to have her name on the other bill.

Patron. Bill sponsor. There can be many patrons.

PBI. Passed by Indefinitely. Action to allow a committee to reconsider legislation at a later meeting. If the committee takes no further action, the bill is dead. [Usually the bill is dead.]

Referred. The assignment of legislation to another standing committee with no stance on the policy of the measure (neither endorses nor rejects the legislation).

Reported. The approval of a measure by the majority of the committee. The legislation may be reported by the committee with or without amendments. A bill may also be reported and referred to another committee.

Stricken. Legislation removed from a committee's docket, frequently at the request of the patron.

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