Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires planning district commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.

Commending the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.

Damaging or removing temporary work signs; penalty. Expands the prohibition on damaging or removing traffic control devices or street signs, punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor, to include damaging or removing temporary signs approved by the Department of Transportation warning motorists that work is in progress on or adjacent to the highway or that certain vehicles may be entering the highway.

Definition of law-enforcement officer; fire marshal with police powers; report. Provides that fire marshals who have been appointed with police powers are included in the definition of law-enforcement officer that applies in numerous applications in the Code. The bill contains a reenactment clause that applies to these amendments to the Code and directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to convene a work group composed of various stakeholders to examine and make recommendations on the inclusion of fire marshals with police powers in such definition of law-enforcement officer. The bill provides that the work group shall complete its work and submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023. Definition of law-enforcement officer; fire marshal with police powers; report. Provides that fire marshals who have been appointed with police powers are included in the definition of law-enforcement officer that applies in numerous applications in the Code. The bill contains a reenactment clause that applies to these amendments to the Code and directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to convene a work group composed of various stakeholders to examine and make recommendations on the inclusion of fire marshals with police powers in such definition of law-enforcement officer. The bill provides that the work group shall complete its work and submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023.

Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; frequency; report. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate more frequently than once every five years in any training relating to the etiology, prevention, transmission modes, and effects of blood-borne pathogens; treating students with seizures and seizure disorders, including information about seizure recognition and related first aid; the appropriate management of student conduct and student offenses in violation of school board policies; or secure mandatory test violations. The bill requires each such teacher who completes any such training to sign a written attestation that the teacher has been trained in and understands the relevant subject matter. The bill requires each local school board to report to the Board of Education and the General Assembly no later than October 1, 2023, on the frequency with which each public elementary and secondary school teacher in the local school division participates in each required training or professional development activity.

Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands, which shall be the preferred form of compensation. The provisions of the bill apply only to tidal wetland mitigation banks with a polyhaline salinity regime located in certain subbasins when a tidal wetland mitigation bank with the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands is not available in the same river watershed as the impacted wetland. Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands, which shall be the preferred form of compensation. The provisions of the bill apply only to tidal wetland mitigation banks with a polyhaline salinity regime located in certain subbasins when a tidal wetland mitigation bank with the same plant community type and salinity regime as the impacted wetlands is not available in the same river watershed as the impacted wetland.

Training standards for law-enforcement officers; comprehensive harm reduction program; drug use. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies for law-enforcement personnel for a comprehensive harm reduction program that promotes scientifically proven methods of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, including the use of naloxone or other opioid antagonists to prevent opioid overdose deaths, in coordination with statewide naloxone training programs developed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Virginia Department of Health. Training standards for law-enforcement officers; comprehensive harm reduction program; drug use. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish training standards and publish and periodically update model policies for law-enforcement personnel for a comprehensive harm reduction program that promotes scientifically proven methods of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, including the use of naloxone or other opioid antagonists to prevent opioid overdose deaths, in coordination with statewide naloxone training programs developed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and the Virginia Department of Health.

Public schools; codes of student conduct; policies and procedures prohibiting bullying; parental notification. Requires each local school board to require the principal of each public school or his designee to notify the parent of any student who is involved in an alleged bullying incident of the alleged incident within 24 hours of learning of such allegation. Current law only requires the principal to notify any such parent of the status of any investigation into an alleged incident of bullying within five school days of when such allegation was made.

Use of subaqueous beds; nontidal waters; permit requirements; penalty. Authorizes any person to build, dump, trespass, encroach upon or over, or take or use any materials from subaqueous beds that are the property of the Commonwealth, provided that such activity is conducted in nontidal waters and such person obtains a Virginia Water Protection Permit and complies with all requirements of the Virginia Water Resources and Wetlands Protection Program. A violation of the provisions of the bill is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Exception to stopping requirement; bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter. Authorizes the operator of a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter to yield instead of stop at an intersection of two highways controlled by a stop sign if (i) each intersecting highway has no more than three motor vehicle travel lanes; (ii) the operator is at least 15 years old or accompanied by an adult; (iii) the operator slows to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions; (iv) before proceeding into the intersection, the person yields the right-of-way to any pedestrian lawfully within the crosswalk and to the driver of another vehicle approaching or entering such intersection from another direction; and (v) the stop sign is not marked as a full-stop stop sign. The bill authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate any stop sign as a full-stop stop sign if site-specific conditions, including limited sight distances and hidden entrances, make it unsafe for a person to yield instead of stop at such stop sign and requires a clearly marked sign at such stop signs.

Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of certain members of the armed forces. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law exempt from taxation the real property of a surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces of the United States who died in the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Under a current constitutional provision, only the surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who was killed in action is eligible for the real property tax exemption.

Constitutional amendment (first reference); rights of parents. Provides that parents have the right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children and that the Commonwealth shall not infringe these rights without demonstrating that its governmental interest is of the highest order and not otherwise served.

Tax credit for participating landlords. Increases from $250,000 to $1 million the maximum amount of tax credits that may be issued to participating landlords, as defined in relevant law, each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2024 and provides that, in the event that the amount of the qualified requests for tax credits for such participating landlords in the fiscal year exceeds $1 million, the Department of Housing and Community Development will prorate the tax credits among the qualified applicants.

Celebrating the life of Colonel Vance Justin Klosinski, USA.

Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires the opportunities for parental involvement required to be provided by each school board to include the opportunity for parents of students enrolled in the local school division to receive advance written or electronic notification of and opt their child out of any speech, presentation, or performance in the relevant school by any outside individual or entity. Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires the opportunities for parental involvement required to be provided by each school board to include the opportunity for parents of students enrolled in the local school division to receive advance written or electronic notification of and opt their child out of any speech, presentation, or performance in the relevant school by any outside individual or entity.