| VA | SB1467 | Engross
Sine Die | Conservation of trees; Town of Vienna. Allows the Town of Vienna, by ordinance, to require that a subdivision or development provide for the preservation or replacement of trees on the development site such that the minimum tree canopy 10 years after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1524 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Virginia Beach; vacancies in office of council member and mayor. Alters the process for filling vacancies in the office of council member and mayor in the City of Virginia Beach by replacing council appointments with special election...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Local regulation of materials recovery facilities. Provides that an ordinance adopted by a locality that would prevent or prohibit the disposal of garbage, trash, or refuse does not include any facility-generated waste residue from a materials recove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1322 | Engross
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000, beginning July 1, 2023, to consider, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1021 | Engross
Sine Die | Charter; City of Roanoke; municipal elections. Makes various changes related to the City of Roanoke's shift to November municipal elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1163 | Engross
Sine Die | Community revitalization fund; Accomack County. Adds Accomack County to existing provisions that allow the City of Richmond to establish a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration. The community revitaliz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1141 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB1312 | Engross
Sine Die | Electric vehicle charging stations; requirement for certain developments. Provides that any locality may by ordinance require electric vehicle charging stations as part of subdivision or site plan approval for a development containing commercial, ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1532 | Intro
Sine Die | Local rent stabilization authority; civil penalty. Local rent stabilization authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt rent stabilization provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1473 | Intro
Sine Die | Land use plans; zoning; notice. Alters the notice requirements related to local government adoption of land use plans and zoning ordinances by no longer requiring the notice to contain a descriptive summary of the proposed action but continues to req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1880 | Intro
Sine Die | Localities; record of legal settlement or judgment; disclosure. Requires localities to retain a public record of certain legal settlements and judgments and requires the record of such amount to be subject to disclosure if requested pursuant to the V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | Short-term rental Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict property managed by a Virginia realtor. Provides that a locality may not restrict by ordinance any short-term rental property managed by a Virginia realtor, defined in the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1413 | Intro
Sine Die | Industrial development authorities; safe and affordable housing; activation status of housing authority. Allows an industrial development authority to promote safe and affordable housing with respect to facilities used primarily for single or multifa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States and who are eligible for United States citizenship or individuals gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2047 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2100 | Intro
Sine Die | Accessory dwelling units. Establishes authority and requirements for localities in the development and use of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). An ADU is defined in the bill as an independent dwelling unit on a single-family dwelling (SFD) lot with it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1607 | Intro
Sine Die | Localities; penalties for violation of ordinances; civil penalties. Permits any locality to adopt an ordinance that establishes a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violations of ordinances. The bill provides that the civil penalty, unless elsew...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1697 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Falls Church; qualifications of members of boards and commissions. Removes the requirement in the City of Falls Church charter that board and commission members be qualified voters, replacing it with an age requirement of at least 18...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Extends from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020. The bill also prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires planning district commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of hate symbol defacement. Requires localities Removal of hate symbol defacement. Requires localities by ordinance to undertake or contract for the removal or repair of the hate symbol defacement of any public building, wall, fence, or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Auditor of Public Accounts; civil penalty for local noncompliance. Provides that localities and localities' constitutional officers shall be subject to monetary penalties for failure to comply with various deadlines for preparing local financial audi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1856 | Intro
Sine Die | Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the public from using property acquired by Loudoun County for recreational purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1540 | Intro
Sine Die | Fee for solid waste disposal; Prince Edward County. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of counties that may by ordinance, and after a public hearing, levy a fee for the (i) disposal of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Virginia Beach; vacancies in office of council member and mayor. Alters the process for filling vacancies in the office of council member and mayor in the City of Virginia Beach by replacing council appointments with special election...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Receipt of mail at courthouse. Requires every county and city courthouse to accept mail at the physical address where the courthouse is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1798 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000, beginning July 1, 2023, to consider, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2103 | Intro
Sine Die | Special exceptions; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to impose a condition upon any special exception or special use permit relating to short-term rentals that provides that such special exception or special use permit will automatically expir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Historic preservation. Provides that the filing of a historic designation application shall stay a locality from issuing any permit to raze or demolish a proposed historic landmark, building, or structure until 30 days after the rendering of the fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Inclusionary housing; zoning. Requires cities and towns in the Commonwealth to develop and promulgate housing plans that address the supply of safe, sanitary, and affordable shelter for all current and anticipated residents of their communities. Such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB778 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Regional criminal justice academy; Town of Pulaski. Allows the Town of Pulaski to withdraw from the Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy and send its cadets to the New River Criminal Justice Training Academy without penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
