| VA | SB1305 | Engross
50% | Local taxes; zoning; assessments; ordinances. Provides that for purposes of real estate subject to a special tax assessment for land preservation by local ordinance, a change to the zoning ordinance shall only be effective following the later of (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1944 | Intro
25% | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on its website rather than in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2683 | Intro
25% | Road impact fees. Lowers one of the local government population requirements for eligibility to adopt a road impact fee ordinance from a population of at least 20,000 and a population growth rate of at least 5 percent to a population of at least 15,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1966 | Intro
25% | Commercial use of public places; 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 any public e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1884 | Intro
25% | Protection of memorials for war veterans. Provides that it is unlawful for localities or individuals to disturb or interfere with certain monuments, markers, and memorials for war veterans or to prevent citizens from taking proper measures and exerci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2283 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Hopewell. Amends the charter for the City of Hopewell to allow the city to reassign certain duties from the city's elected treasurer to the city manager's office. The bill provides that the city manager will designate the finance dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2690 | Intro
25% | Publication of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to publish legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2068 | Intro
25% | Local land use decision authority. Provides that the authority for a locality's planning and land use decisions belong solely to the locality and shall not be ceded to any state agency or state-sanctioned body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1774 | Intro
25% | Provision of county services within towns. Requires counties to provide their standard county services to towns located within county boundaries at the same level such services are provided in the unincorporated areas of the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2377 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive plan; data centers; water usage. Requires every locality to incorporate into its comprehensive plan provisions that prioritize and evaluate alternative methods of cooling, such as air cooling, geothermal cooling, or other innovative tec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2142 | Intro
25% | Refund by localities of certain land use application fees. Provides a method whereby an applicant who fails to receive approval of a land use application due to failure to meet a statutory deadline for a completed application may seek an application ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2602 | Intro
25% | Persons seeking temporary shelter; provision of temporary shelter by locality. Prohibits a locality from adopting or enforcing any ordinance that creates criminal penalties for sleeping or seeking temporary shelter in a legally parked vehicle and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2293 | Intro
25% | Subdivision ordinance; plan review by designated agent. Removes planning commission and governing body approval authority for the administrative review process for plats and plans and assigns such authority solely to a designated agent, defined in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2480 | Intro
25% | Zoning; traffic studies. Provides that no locality shall require a traffic study as a condition for approval of a rezoning application that involves either a single-family or multifamily residential use of fewer than 50 residential units. The bill fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2026 | Intro
25% | Data centers; industrial zoning. Requires a locality to review and amend its zoning ordinance to (i) designate data centers as industrial uses for zoning purposes; (ii) review the locations of zones allowing data centers by right, and adjust the zoni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2417 | Intro
25% | Procurement; local budget. Provides that a locality may make an Invitation to Bid, a Request for Proposal, and any other solicitation prior to budgeting an anticipated expenditure for such proposal and may include a statement in an Invitation to Bid,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1984 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1832 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2499 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive plan; subdivision ordinance; local approvals. Provides that a locality's comprehensive plan shall not constitute the basis, in whole or in part, whether directly or through incorporation into any zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2148 | Intro
25% | Proposed plat, site plan, or plan of development or preliminary subdivision plat; time period for action by local planning commission. Reduces from 45 days to 30 days the period of time that a local planning commission or other agent has to act on an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1987 | Intro
25% | Disclosures 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 employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2585 | Intro
25% | Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2184 | Intro
25% | Cash proffers; land transfer; extinguishing development rights. Provides that (i) cash payments proffered pursuant to relevant zoning law and (ii) the transfer of land may be used by an applicant for the purpose of extinguishing development rights el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1654 | Engross
50% | Short-term rental properties; human trafficking awareness training. Mandates every accommodations intermediary to require its accommodations providers to complete certain training on recognizing and reporting instances of suspected human trafficking....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2603 | Intro
25% | Affordable housing; county executive form of government. Adds counties with the county executive form of government to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable dwelling unit program. Albemarle County, which is already grante...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1554 | Intro
25% | Funding for deputy sheriffs. Provides that the minimum number of deputies funded by the Compensation Board shall be one deputy per 1,500 persons or one deputy for every 25 square miles, whichever is greater. Under current law, the funding is fixed at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1826 | Intro
25% | Vacant building registration; civil penalty. Increases from $100 to $500 the maximum annual registration fee a locality may charge the owners of certain vacant buildings to defray the cost of processing such registration. The civil penalty for failur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2682 | Intro
25% | Board of Housing and Community Development; work group to identify certain changes related to the building permit and certificate of occupancy processes. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to establish a work group to identify ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2712 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; local authority. Provides that a locality, in considering any land use application required for the siting of a data center, may (i) require and consider water use estimates for proposed data center developments; (ii) require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2704 | Intro
25% | Library boards; removal of members; appeal. Provides that the procedure for removal of a library board member shall include a right of appeal by the member to the circuit court within 30 days of a decision to remove such member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2349 | Intro
25% | Release of developer performance guarantees. Clarifies that existing provisions related to the periodic partial and final release of developer performance guarantees also applies to performance guarantees for erosion and sediment control measures, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2311 | Intro
25% | Display of POW/MIA flag by localities. Requires localities to display the POW/MIA flag on public buildings on designated days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1688 | Intro
25% | Short-term rentals; compliance; civil penalty. Authorizes localities to notify an accommodations intermediary that a short-term rental on its platform is not lawfully authorized to be offered on its platform. The accommodations intermediary shall rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2289 | Intro
25% | Zoning; recovery residences. Provides that zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider a certified recovery residence in which no more than eight individuals with substance use disorder reside, either with or without one or more resident or non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2587 | Intro
25% | Charter; City of Poquoson. Amends the charter for the City of Poquoson to give the city council authority to expel, by a vote of four-sevenths of the whole city council, any person appointed to a city board or commission by the city council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2127 | Intro
25% | Telework by local government employees. Establishes a framework for localities to establish and implement a telework policy for local government employees. The bill specifies that such policy shall require all employees applying for telework to submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB2129 | Intro
25% | Exchange of items on roadways; ability of localities to prohibit. Authorizes localities to prohibit by ordinance the exchange or attempted exchange of any item between a pedestrian and the occupant of a motor vehicle located on a roadway in such loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1577 | Intro
25% | Centralized local government reporting system; unfunded mandates on localities. Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to establish a centralized electronic reporting system for all locality reporting requirements, including those required by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1790 | Intro
25% | Zoning ordinances; residential district classifications; affordable housing. Authorizes a locality, within the residential district classifications of its zoning ordinance, to include districts specifically designated for affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1225 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB331 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB697 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1122 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1093 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1310 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB304 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB900 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB952 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB646 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
