Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive community colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law. Local school boards and comprehensive community colleges; compensation structure for adjunct instructors; credit-bearing and noncredit workforce credentials. Encourages local school boards and comprehensive community colleges to enter into local or regional agreements for the establishment and implementation of a competitive compensation structure to recruit and retain adjunct instructors to be jointly compensated by the relevant school boards and colleges to prepare both high school students and college students to earn credit-bearing workforce credentials and noncredit workforce credentials, as that term is defined in relevant law.

Annexation; extension of current moratorium. Extends by eight years, from 2024 to 2032, the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assembly fails to appropriate certain amounts for local law-enforcement expenditures are exempted through the 2030-2032 biennium.

Anti-Semitism. Provides that the term "anti-Semitism" when used in reference to discrimination in the Code of Virginia and acts of the General Assembly is defined by the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including the contemporary examples of anti-Semitism set forth in such definition.

Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employs more than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase order in excess of $10,000 a provision that states that during the performance of the contract, neither the contracting business, nor any of its affiliates, shall engage in a boycott of Israel. Virginia Public Procurement Act; prohibition on boycotting Israel. Requires all public bodies to include in every contract in excess of $100,000 with a business that employs more than 10 employees and in every subcontract or purchase order in excess of $10,000 a provision that states that during the performance of the contract, neither the contracting business, nor any of its affiliates, shall engage in a boycott of Israel.

Electric utilities; underground transmission lines. Provides that construction and reconstruction of any underground, in whole or in part, electrical transmission lines of at least 69 kilovolts along a highway right-of-way under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation in Planning District 8 where a data center proposal is under construction in an area located within a half mile of a National Battlefield Park and within one mile of a state forest is in the public interest.

Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan. Renames the Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee as the Virginia Resilience Technical Advisory Committee, removes the provision in current law that members of the Committee shall include executive directors of planning district commissions or their designees from coastal areas only, and requires the Committee to assist the Department of Conservation and Recreation in developing, updating, and implementing the Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan.

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.

Killing the fetus of another; manslaughter; penalties. Provides that any person who kills the fetus of another by an intentional act committed while in the sudden heat of passion upon reasonable provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which is punishable as a Class 5 felony. The bill also provides that any person who kills the fetus of another accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties and while engaged in conduct so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life, is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, which is also punishable as a Class 5 felony.

Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority; assess licensing scheme for liquid nicotine; report. Directs the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, in consultation with stakeholders, to assess (i) a potential licensing scheme for manufacturers, distributors, and retail dealers of liquid nicotine in the Commonwealth and (ii) the most appropriate manner and entity to enforce and administer licensing, age verification, product verification, and advertising restrictions related to the sale of liquid nicotine. The bill requires the Authority to report its findings and any recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Finance, and the House Committee on Appropriations by November 1, 2023.

Midwifery; administration of medication. Allows licensed midwives to obtain, possess, and administer drugs and devices within the scope of their practice. The bill requires the Board of Medicine to develop and publish best practice and standards of care guidance for all such drugs. The bill limits the liability of entities that provide or dispense drugs or devices to a licensed midwife and that rely in good faith upon the license information provided by the licensed midwife. Under the bill, completing all Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health patient safety bundles advanced by the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative is required of any licensed midwife who obtains, possesses, and administers drugs and devices within the scope of his practice.

Toll operators; Department of Motor Vehicles records. Authorizes toll facility operators to obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles the email address or other electronic address of the owner of a vehicle that failed to pay a toll. Existing provisions require an invoice for an unpaid toll to be sent by first-class mail. The bill contains technical amendments.

Administration of state government; prohibited actions; civil penalty. Prohibits state agencies from entering into a contract for goods or services with a scrutinized company, defined in the bill as any company owned or operated by a foreign adversary, other than a company for which the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has determined that there are no unresolved national security concerns regarding the transaction that created such ownership or permitted such operation. The bill also requires any company that submits a bid or proposal to a state agency with respect to a contract for goods or services to certify in writing that it is not a scrutinized company and outlines the penalties for falsifying information in submitting such certification, including a civil penalty in an amount equal to the greater of $250,000 or twice the amount of the contract for which the bid or proposal was submitted. Finally, the bill prohibits any employee or agent of any executive branch agency or person or entity contracting with any such agency from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or accessing any website developed by ByteDance Ltd. or Tencent Holdings Ltd. (i) on any state-issued device or state-owned or state-leased equipment, including mobile phones, desktop computers, laptop computers, tablets, or other devices capable of connecting to the Internet, or (ii) while connected to any wired or wireless Internet network owned, operated, or maintained by the Commonwealth. Administration of state government; prohibited actions; civil penalty. Prohibits state agencies from entering into a contract for goods or services with a scrutinized company, defined in the bill as any company owned or operated by a foreign adversary, other than a company for which the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has determined that there are no unresolved national security concerns regarding the transaction that created such ownership or permitted such operation. The bill also requires any company that submits a bid or proposal to a state agency with respect to a contract for goods or services to certify in writing that it is not a scrutinized company and outlines the penalties for falsifying information in submitting such certification, including a civil penalty in an amount equal to the greater of $250,000 or twice the amount of the contract for which the bid or proposal was submitted. Finally, the bill prohibits any employee or agent of any executive branch agency or person or entity contracting with any such agency from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or accessing any website developed by ByteDance Ltd. or Tencent Holdings Ltd. (i) on any state-issued device or state-owned or state-leased equipment, including mobile phones, desktop computers, laptop computers, tablets, or other devices capable of connecting to the Internet, or (ii) while connected to any wired or wireless Internet network owned, operated, or maintained by the Commonwealth.

Celebrating the life of Kennon Caithness Whittle, Jr.

Celebrating the life of Chester Pike Avery, Jr.

Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; felon disenfranchisement; automatic restoration of voting rights. Provides that the General Assembly shall provide by general law an exemption to the prohibition that disqualifies a convicted felon from being qualified to vote. The amendment allows the exemption to be created for a person who has been convicted of a nonviolent felony and who has completed his sentence of imprisonment, including any period of probation or postrelease supervision, and has made payment in full of any restitution, fines, or fees assessed against him as a result of his conviction, at which time his voting rights shall be restored. The amendment retains the Governor's authority to restore the civil rights of persons convicted of any felony.