Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued and jailer-issued identification. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to expedite, to the extent possible, the processing of an application submitted by a prisoner for a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, or Social Security card and the issuance of such identification and documents.

Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations; civil penalty. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor the Commissioner of Health shall make any emergency order or regulation unless, on the basis of the evidence available to the Board, (i) such order or regulation is necessary to suppress a nuisance dangerous to the public health or a communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health; (ii) no alternatives to the proposed order or regulation that are reasonable in light of the impact on quality of life and economic well-being exist; and (iii) the provisions of such order or regulation are narrowly tailored to address the nuisance dangerous to the public health or a communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health. The bill also provides that the Governor shall not issue any emergency rule, regulation, or order unless, on the basis of the evidence available to the Governor, (a) such rule, regulation, or order is necessary to address a compelling circumstance; (b) no alternatives to the proposed rule, regulation, or order that are reasonable in light of the impact on quality of life and economic well-being exist; and (c) the provisions of such rule, regulation, or order are narrowly tailored to address the compelling circumstance. Emergency Services and Disaster Law; Commissioner of Health; emergency orders and regulations; limitations; civil penalty. Provides that neither the Board of Health nor the Commissioner of Health shall make any emergency order or regulation unless, on the basis of the evidence available to the Board, (i) such order or regulation is necessary to suppress a nuisance dangerous to the public health or a communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health; (ii) no alternatives to the proposed order or regulation that are reasonable in light of the impact on quality of life and economic well-being exist; and (iii) the provisions of such order or regulation are narrowly tailored to address the nuisance dangerous to the public health or a communicable, contagious, or infectious disease or other danger to the public life and health. The bill also provides that the Governor shall not issue any emergency rule, regulation, or order unless, on the basis of the evidence available to the Governor, (a) such rule, regulation, or order is necessary to address a compelling circumstance; (b) no alternatives to the proposed rule, regulation, or order that are reasonable in light of the impact on quality of life and economic well-being exist; and (c) the provisions of such rule, regulation, or order are narrowly tailored to address the compelling circumstance. The bill provides that any order that limits the number of individuals who may gather together in person, in public or private, or categorizes individuals on the basis of their relationship to or association with such individuals and limits the categories of individuals with whom an individual who is not known or reasonably suspected to have been exposed to or infected with a communicable disease of public health threat may associate is presumed to negatively impact quality of life and economic well-being. The bill also limits the duration of any emergency rule, regulation, or order to 15 days; provides for one 15-day extension of such rule, regulation, or order; and provides that any person who violates such rule, regulation, or order shall be subject to a civil penalty of no more than $100 per violation. Under current law, any person who violates the provisions of an executive order is subject to a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Correctional officers; arrest without a warrant during transportation of inmate. Adds the escape of an inmate while being transported by a correctional officer to the crimes for which a correctional officer is authorized to arrest without a warrant.

Personal information of judges and magistrates; penalty. Prohibits the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the personal information of any active or retired federal or Virginia justice, judge, or magistrate who has made a demand in writing to the Commonwealth that the Commonwealth not publish such information; such demand shall be effective until rescinded by such judge, justice, or magistrate. The bill adds active or retired federal or Virginia justices, judges, and magistrates to the list of people for which an enhanced punishment applies for the crime of using such person's identity with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass. The bill also adds active and retired magistrates to the list of people who may furnish, in addition to his residence street address, a post office box address located within the Commonwealth to be included in lieu of his street address on the lists of registered voters. The bill removes state and federal judges and justices from the definition of "public official." As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Judicial Council of Virginia.

Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; contributing private institutions of higher education. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill defines "contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education" as nonprofit private institutions of higher education that have established a campus police department and made an irrevocable election to provide the benefits under the Line of Duty Act and to fund the cost by participating in the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any private institution of higher education that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education. Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; contributing private institutions of higher education. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill defines "contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education" as nonprofit private institutions of higher education that have established a campus police department and made an irrevocable election to provide the benefits under the Line of Duty Act and to fund the cost by participating in the Line of Duty Death and Health Benefits Trust Fund. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any private institution of higher education that is not a contributing nonprofit private institution of higher education.

Towing enforcement. Provides that violations of current law regarding tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators are subject to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The bill repeals the $150 civil penalty for certain towing violations in Planning District 8.

Income tax; rolling conformity; report. Provides that Virginia shall generally conform to federal tax laws on a rolling basis, meaning that Virginia tax laws incorporate changes to federal income tax law as soon as Congress enacts them on or after January 1, 2023. However, the bill provides that Virginia shall not conform to (i) any changes in a single act of Congress with an impact of more than $15 million on revenues in the year in which the amendment was enacted or any of the next four years and (ii) all amendments in a year with a cumulative projected impact of more than $75 million in the year in which the amendments were enacted or any of the next four years. For any amendment enacted on or after January 1, 2024, the $15 million per act impact threshold shall be adjusted annually by the change in the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) for the previous year.

Requirements to test for PFAS; publicly owned treatment works; discharges into state waters. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require any industrial user of publicly owned treatment works that receive and clean, repair, refurbish, or process items that the industrial user knows or reasonably should know use PFAS chemicals, defined in the bill, to test wastestreams for PFAS prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or processing such items. The bill requires the results of such tests to be transmitted to the receiving publicly owned treatment works within three days of receipt of the test results by the industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works. Requirements to test for PFAS; publicly owned treatment works; discharges into state waters. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require any industrial user of publicly owned treatment works that receive and clean, repair, refurbish, or process items that the industrial user knows or reasonably should know use PFAS chemicals, defined in the bill, to test wastestreams for PFAS prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or processing such items. The bill requires the results of such tests to be transmitted to the receiving publicly owned treatment works within three days of receipt of the test results by the industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works.

Immunization; immunization of children against COVID-19. Specifies that parents shall not be required to immunize their children against COVID-19.

Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Removes the $3,000 gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower that are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill retains other restrictions that apply in current law to the sales of such pickles and vegetables that are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection.

Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Adds Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville to the list of qualifying localities that, under current law, are authorized to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue from such tax used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools.

Court-appointed counsel; requests for additional compensation; determination by judge. Requires the presiding judge or chief judge of a circuit or district court, when reviewing a request from court-appointed counsel for additional compensation exceeding existing statutory limits, to provide, in writing, the reason for a determination that such request for additional compensation is not justified.

Virginia Board of Social Work; licensed clinical social worker candidates; licensure by reciprocity; workgroup; report. Directs the Virginia Board of Social Work to convene a workgroup to examine the feasibility of licensure by reciprocity with other jurisdictions. Under the bill, the Board shall submit a report to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2023.

Public utilities; shared solar; minimum bill. Provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program shall not exceed the minimum bill that the State Corporation Commission is required to establish, provides considerations for the Commission in establishing such minimum bill, such as minimizing the costs shifted to nonparticipating customers, and provides that the calculation of a customer's minimum bill shall be based on the kilowatt hours billed by the utility rather than the subscriber's portion of shared solar facility generation. The bill increases the shared solar facility program capacity from 150 megawatts to 700 megawatts with an additional 300 megawatts of capacity to be approved by the Commission upon determining that at least 210 megawatts of the aggregated shared solar capacity in the Commonwealth are subscribed to by low-income customers. Under current law, the Commission is required to approve a program of 150 megawatts with an additional 50 megawatts. The bill requires the Commission's regulations for the shared solar program to allow all jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customer classes to participate in the program. The bill also directs the Commission to implement through regulation the provisions of the bill within 180 days of enactment and require each utility to file any tariffs, agreements, or forms to implement the provisions of the bill within 60 days of the effective date of such regulations. Public utilities; shared solar; minimum bill. Provides that a customer's net bill for participation in the shared solar program shall not exceed the minimum bill that the State Corporation Commission is required to establish, provides considerations for the Commission in establishing such minimum bill, such as minimizing the costs shifted to nonparticipating customers, and provides that the calculation of a customer's minimum bill shall be based on the kilowatt hours billed by the utility rather than the subscriber's portion of shared solar facility generation. The bill increases the shared solar facility program capacity from 150 megawatts to 700 megawatts with an additional 300 megawatts of capacity to be approved by the Commission upon determining that at least 210 megawatts of the aggregated shared solar capacity in the Commonwealth are subscribed to by low-income customers. Under current law, the Commission is required to approve a program of 150 megawatts with an additional 50 megawatts. The bill requires the Commission's regulations for the shared solar program to allow all jurisdictional and nonjurisdictional customer classes to participate in the program. The bill also directs the Commission to implement through regulation the provisions of the bill within 180 days of enactment and require each utility to file any tariffs, agreements, or forms to implement the provisions of the bill within 60 days of the effective date of such regulations.

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, 2026. 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 2025. 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 annually to reflect changes in the statewide average weekly wage. The measure caps the duration of paid leave at 12 weeks in any application year. The bill provides self-employed individuals the option of participating in the program.