Virginia House Bill 778 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-11 - Continued to 2023 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote
Pending: House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Relocation of monument and memorials. Requires a locality that votes to remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover certain war monuments or memorials to initiate a process to gift the monument or memorial to a nonprofit organization that is most related to the mission and spirit of the monument or memorial, at the locality's expense. The bill provides that the placement of the monument or memorial shall be decided by an independent committee and that a majority vote by the committee as to the relocation of the memorial is binding on the locality and shall be carried out within six months from the date of the committee's decision.

Monument and memorials; relocation.

Del. Wren Williams [R]

Del. Lee Ware [R]

Del. Marie March [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-11	House	Continued to 2023 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote
2022-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2023 by voice vote
2022-01-28	House	Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1
2022-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
2022-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102285D

HB778 (Carry Over) 2022-02-11 - Continued to 2023 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1812	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB778
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB778+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB778F164+PDF