| VA | SB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds, as defined in the bill, that is anticipated to exceed $5,000 shall be subject to approval in advance by a vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB641 | Engross
Sine Die | Certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators by localities. Repeals an existing statute that allows localities by ordinance to require certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB697 | Engross
Prefile | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB697 | Engross
Sine Die | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB304 | Engross
Prefile | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
Sine Die | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
Prefile | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1442 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; Town of Rocky Mount. Amends the charter for the Town of Rocky Mount in Franklin County to reflect the town's transition from May to November for municipal elections. The bill also imposes term limits of three consecutive terms for the mayor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; parks, schools, and residential areas. Requires that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in the bill, be approved only for areas that are one-quarter mile or more from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Displacement of private waste companies. Reduces from five years to one year the period of time a locality must provide notice to a private waste company before the locality engages in the actual provision of the waste service that displaces the comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government employees; expression of certain opinions protected. Provides that an employee of a locality shall not be penalized by his employer for expressing his opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosure in land use proceedings; statewide application. Alters certain land use disclosure requirements applicable to officials in any county with the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) by replacing "relationship of employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to adopt a uniform schedule of civil penalties for the violation of provisions of the zoning ordinance related to short-term rentals. The schedule of civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Permits localities to regulate by ordinance the location of retail sale locations established after July 1, 2024, that sell tobacco, nicotine, and hemp ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB476 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning ordinances; adequate public facilities. Allows a locality to determine the timing of development by considering the adequacy of public facilities when making zoning decisions. The bill provides that a locality that makes a determination of ina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB235 | Intro
Sine Die | Persons occupying street for commercial use; civil penalty. Allows cities and towns by ordinance to establish a uniform schedule of civil penalties for commercial use of a street, avenue, park, bridge, or any other public place or public property or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; traffic impact statements. Prohibits a locality from requiring a local traffic impact statement as a condition for approval of a rezoning application that involves a multifamily residential use of fewer than 50 residential units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB672 | Intro
Sine Die | Assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth; Compensation Board. Provides that the Compensation Board shall provide for employing at least one compensated assistant to the attorney for the Commonwealth in every county and city where the attorney for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1533 | Intro
Sine Die | Local zoning regulations related to mines; Planning District 8. Provides that localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may establish standards and adopt zoning regulations related to mines and mineral mines that exceed standards and regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB644 | Engross
Sine Die | Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The ordinance may include provisions for a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Release of developer performance guarantees. Provides that no governing body or administrative agency shall refuse to make a periodic partial or final release of a bond, escrow, letter of credit, or other performance guarantee for the actions of anyo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Virginia Beach; board of equalization. Amends the charter for the City of Virginia Beach by expanding the board of equalization from four members to five members and an alternate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Board of zoning appeals; appeal to general district court. Provides that in the case of an appeal from the board of zoning appeals of an order, requirement, decision, or determination of a zoning administrator, a person aggrieved by any such order, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Disposal of unclaimed property in possession of sheriff or police; notice of public display and sale. Allows a law-enforcement agency to publish the required notice that there will be a public display and sale of certain unclaimed personal property t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, local planning commissions, subdivision plats and site plans, and zoning ordinances; approval process. Makes several changes to local government land use approval processes, including (i) prohi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1544 | Intro
Sine Die | Southside Regional Recreation Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators by localities. Repeals an existing statute that allows localities by ordinance to require certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1501 | Intro
Sine Die | Cash proffers; development rights. Provides that cash payments proffered pursuant to ยง 15.2-2298, 15.2-2303, or 15.2-2303.1 may be used for the purpose of extinguishing development rights elsewhere in the locality if the development rights to be ext...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1197 | Intro
Sine Die | Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds that is anticipated to exceed $2,500 shall be subject to approval in advance by a vote of the local governing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1093 | Intro
Prefile | Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementing an unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; certified recovery residence. Requires that a locality's zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider a certified recovery residence in which individuals with substance use disorder reside as residential occupancy by a single family. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementing an unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB646 | Intro
Prefile | Zoning; certified recovery residence. Requires that a locality's zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider a certified recovery residence in which individuals with substance use disorder reside as residential occupancy by a single family. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1225 | Intro
Prefile | County manager plan of government; powers. Broadens several powers available to counties that have adopted the county manager plan of government by giving such counties the option of following general law rather than the provisions specified in this ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB331 | Intro
Prefile | Charter; City of Richmond. Makes extensive updates to the charter for the City of Richmond. Many changes in the bill have the effect of removing outdated or duplicative provisions and more closely aligning the city's powers with those set out in gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1122 | Intro
Prefile | Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB900 | Intro
Prefile | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | County manager plan of government; powers. Broadens several powers available to counties that have adopted the county manager plan of government by giving such counties the option of following general law rather than the provisions specified in this ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Charter; City of Richmond. Makes extensive updates to the charter for the City of Richmond. Many changes in the bill have the effect of removing outdated or duplicative provisions and more closely aligning the city's powers with those set out in gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | C-PACE loans; residential dwellings and condominiums. Removes an exclusion for residential dwellings with fewer than five dwelling units and condominium projects from certain requirements related to a voluntary special assessment lien that secures a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1310 | Intro
Prefile | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB952 | Intro
Prefile | C-PACE loans; residential dwellings and condominiums. Removes an exclusion for residential dwellings with fewer than five dwelling units and condominium projects from certain requirements related to a voluntary special assessment lien that secures a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
