Virginia House Bill 1801 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on December 28 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
Pending: House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Conditional rezoning proffers. Makes extensive changes Conditional rezoning proffers. Makes extensive changes to conditional zoning provisions first enacted in 2016. Specific amendments include provisions stating that no locality shall "require" any unreasonable proffer. Under current law, no locality may "request or accept" any unreasonable proffer. Other changes include (i) an expansion of the definitions of "public safety facility improvement" and "public school facility improvement"; (ii) allowing an applicant to submit any offsite proffer that the applicant deems reasonable and appropriate, as conclusively evidenced by the signed proffers; and (iii) provisions stating that nothing in the bill shall be deemed or interpreted to prohibit communications between an applicant or owner and the locality or shall be deemed or interpreted to prohibit presentation, analysis, or discussion of the potential impacts of new residential development or other new residential use on the locality's public facilities either onsite or offsite that are specifically attributable to such development. Final enactments state that (a) the bill shall be effective as to any application for a rezoning or proffer condition amendment filed on or after July 1, 2019, or to certain other pending applications, and (b) an applicant with a pending application for a rezoning or proffer condition amendment that was filed prior to July 1, 2016, may elect to proceed under the law as it existed prior to that date, and an applicant with a pending application for a rezoning or proffer condition amendment filed on or after July 1, 2016, but before July 1, 2019, may elect to proceed under the law as it existed during

Conditional rezoning proffers; extensive changes to zoning provisions.

Del. Lee Ware [R]

Sen. John McGuire [R]

2019-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 1-N) (Y: 5 N: 1 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-16 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N) (Y: 3 N: 2 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
2019-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 1-N)
2019-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N)
2019-01-14	House	Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2
2018-12-28	House	Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
2018-12-28	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101725D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2303.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1801
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1801+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0702V0008+HB1801
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0702V0009+HB1801