Virginia Code | Chapter 15 Article 2

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
VAHB405Enroll
75%
Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; evaluation of infrastructure necessary for electric vehicle charging facilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB188Enroll
75%
Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB329VetoCompost and other products containing organic soil amendments infrastructure; civil penalty. Allows a locality by ordinance to require certain generators, as defined in the bill, of large quantities of organic waste to separate the organic waste from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB797VetoDemonstrated competence for a concealed handgun permit; firearms instructors and safety programs. Requires that any course, class, or training to demonstrate competence with a handgun as required to obtain a concealed handgun permit must include a li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB776VetoMinimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States for no less than 60 months and who are both eligible for and have app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB950Enroll
75%
Uniform Statewide Building Code; temporary prohibition on modifications. Provides that neither the Governor nor the Board of Housing and Community Development shall modify any regulation in the Uniform Statewide Building Code prior to the conclusion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1019Enroll
75%
Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB755Enroll
75%
Civil penalties for certain local property violations; industrial and commercial areas. Allows localities by ordinance to charge enhanced civil penalties for certain local property violations on property that is zoned or utilized for industrial or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB597Enroll
75%
Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1392Enroll
75%
Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in its group life, accident, and health insurance programs any person to whom coverage could be extended under the provision of current law that sets out who may be cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1461Enroll
75%
Short-term rental property; locality's ability to prohibit lessee or sublessee operator. Prohibits a locality from barring an operator, as defined in existing law, from offering such property as a short-term rental solely on the basis that the operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB2VetoPurchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB2VetoPurchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB29Enroll
75%
Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2022, Special Session I, as amended by Chapter 769 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, as further amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I,
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Signed by President
VAHB1386VetoFirearms; workplace rules of localities. Provides that any locality that adopts an ordinance prohibiting the public carrying of firearms shall not have workplace rules that are less restrictive than such ordinance. Firearms; workplace rules of local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB69VetoMinimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police, po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-20
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB134PassEconomic development authorities; Craig County. Allows the board of supervisors of Craig County to appoint one of its members to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Craig.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 75 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB1167VetoLocal prohibition on the sale of English ivy; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of English ivy, with violations punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $50 for a first violation and not to exceed $2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB59Enroll
75%
Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; Planning Districts 13 and 14. Adds Planning Districts 13 (Southside) and 14 (Commonwealth Regional Council) to the list of areas where localities may create a regional industrial facility authority that co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB49Enroll
75%
Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB48Enroll
75%
Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any county, city, or town to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) that meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law, (ii) that meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB128Enroll
75%
Local regulation of door-to-door vendors; political parties exempted. Provides that local ordinances regulating the activities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any person participating in certain specified political activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB151Enroll
75%
Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB281Enroll
75%
Early childhood care and education; child day programs; use of office buildings; waiver of zoning requirements. Permits any locality to by ordinance provide for the waiver of any requirements for zoning permits for the operation of a child day progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB208Enroll
75%
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB88Enroll
75%
Decertification of law-enforcement officers and jail officers. Makes various changes to the provisions related to decertification of law-enforcement officers and jail officers. The bill provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services may co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB456Enroll
75%
City council salaries. Increases the statutory salary caps for members of city councils and requires a public hearing prior to adopting an ordinance to set city council salaries. The bill also provides that the maximum salaries may be adjusted in any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB459Enroll
75%
Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB467Enroll
75%
Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB478Enroll
75%
Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB121Enroll
75%
Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB529Enroll
75%
Conservation and replacement of trees during development process. Expands certain existing local government authority to conserve or replace trees during the development process by expanding such authority statewide. The bill allows localities to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB634Enroll
75%
Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer. Prohibits a locality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that bans the rental of residential dwelling units for 30 consecutive days or longer. The bill allows a locality by or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB581Enroll
75%
Human trafficking response teams. Requires attorneys for the Commonwealth to establish multidisciplinary human trafficking response teams. The bill provides that each team shall hold a meeting, at least annually, to (i) discuss implementation of prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB650Enroll
75%
Zoning; residential and electrical generation projects; period of validity. Provides that the conditions of a special exception or special use permit may include a period of validity; however, in the case of a special exception or special use permit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB245Enroll
75%
Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB296Enroll
75%
Local planning commission; action on proposed plats, site plans, and development plans; residential use. Requires local planning commissions to use the same approval process for residential development projects as is currently required for commercial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB308Enroll
75%
Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer. Prohibits a locality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that bans the rental of residential dwelling units for 30 consecutive days or longer. The bill allows a locality by or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB947Enroll
75%
Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB339Enroll
75%
Joint Commission on Technology and Science analysis; blockchain, digital asset mining, and cryptocurrency; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to conduct an analysis of and make recommendations regarding the use of blockcha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1128Enroll
75%
Children's advocacy centers; definitions; investigations by local departments of social services. Replaces the term "child advocacy center" with "children's advocacy center" and defines such term. The bill provides that if it is determined during a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1100Enroll
75%
Conservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB914Enroll
75%
Local historic districts; tax incentives. Allows a locality that establishes a local historic district to provide tax incentives for the conservation and renovation of historic structures in such district. The bill provides that such incentives may i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB953Enroll
75%
Local Environmental Impact Fund. Allows localities to create a permanent and perpetual fund to be known as the Local Environmental Impact Fund. The bill provides that the Fund shall consist exclusively of appropriated local moneys and any gifts, dona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB354Enroll
75%
Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1028Enroll
75%
Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1211Enroll
75%
Tax assessment districts; petition by parcel owners. Changes the threshold for petitioning a city or town for establishment of a tax assessment district from not less than three-fourths of the landowners affected to the owners of not less than three-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB448Enroll
75%
Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB413Enroll
75%
Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB480Enroll
75%
Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; report; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
Syndicate content
feedback