| VA | SB956 | Pass | Localities; business improvement and recruitment districts. Authorizes any locality to create a local business improvement and recruitment district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund business improvements, business promot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| VA | SB861 | Pass | Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes localities in Planning District 23, after completing an engineering safety analysis that addresses congestion, accident rates, and driver disregard for traffic control devices, to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) |
| VA | SB1394 | Pass | Cutting of grass and weeds on certain property; localities in Planning District 22. Exempts localities located in Planning District 22 from provisions that exclude agricultural land from requirements related to the cutting of grass and weeds when suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| VA | HB2494 | Pass | Local housing policy; report to the Department of Housing and Community Development. Requires any locality with a population greater than 3,500 to submit an annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development summarizing the adoption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0733) |
| VA | HB1738 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; state public bodies; meetings; virtual public access. Provides that all state public bodies may provide public access to meetings through electronic communication means and may provide the public with the opportun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| VA | SB1014 | Pass | Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property by general public. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the general public from using property voluntarily conveyed to Loudoun County by a nonprofit recreat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0642) |
| VA | HB2433 | Pass | Economic development authorities; appointments; Essex County. Allows the board of supervisors of Essex County to appoint one employee of the locality to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Essex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| VA | SB1495 | Pass | Local enforcement action; willful disregard for applicable law; damages. Provides that any person against whom an enforcement action is carried out by a locality, of any ordinance or regulation, where the enforcement action was based upon a willful d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| VA | HB1472 | Pass | Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions; designation as emergency response agencies. Requires that ordinances or resolutions establishing an emergency medical services agency specify the geographic boundaries of the agency's pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458) |
| VA | HB1944 | Pass | Extension of land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects. Extends to July 1, 2026, the sunset date for various local land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| VA | SB1151 | Pass | Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506) |
| VA | SB1246 | Pass | Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions; designation as emergency response agencies. Requires that ordinances or resolutions establishing an emergency medical services agency specify the geographic boundaries of the agency's pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459) |
| VA | SB1390 | Pass | Extension of land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects. Extends to July 1, 2026, the sunset date for various local land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0500) |
| VA | HB2161 | Pass | Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507) |
| VA | HB1634 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0353) |
| VA | HB1665 | Pass | Extension of local land use approvals. 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 provides that its provisions shall not be constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| VA | HB1676 | Pass | Annexation; extension of current moratorium. Extends by eight years, from 2024 to 2032, the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
| VA | HB1674 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; freight corridors. Requires localities, when developing a transportation plan as part of the locality's comprehensive plan, to include freight corridors when designating transportation facilities that support the planned developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424) |
| VA | HB1671 | Pass | Residential land development and construction fee transparency; annual report. Requires localities with a population greater than 3,500 to submit an annual report no later than March 1 to the Department of Housing and Community Development containing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| VA | SB1091 | Pass | Local Stormwater Management Fund; condominiums. Expands the allowable uses of grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund, established under current law to grant funds to private property owners and common interest communities for certain stormwat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449) |
| VA | SB1205 | Pass | Extension of local land use approvals. 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 provides that its provisions shall not be constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437) |
| VA | SB1185 | Pass | Annexation; extension of current moratorium. Extends by eight years, from 2024 to 2032, the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0423) |
| VA | SB1187 | Pass | Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354) |
| VA | HB2165 | Pass | Criminal appeals; duties of the Attorney General and attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that in all criminal cases before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Virginia in which the Commonwealth is a party or is directly interested, the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314) |
| VA | SB1259 | Pass | Criminal appeals; duties of the Attorney General and attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that in all criminal cases before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Virginia in which the Commonwealth is a party or is directly interested, the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0315) |
| VA | SB1455 | Pass | Civil disturbance; local curfew; penalty. Enables the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to enact a curfew under certain circumstances during a civil disturbance. The bill clarifies that such action in cities shall be in concurrence with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0360) |
| VA | SB798 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| VA | HB1450 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0148) |
| VA | SB807 | Pass | Local parks; walking trails; liability; property owners. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of walking trails and releases from certain civil liability the owner of any property leased, licensed, or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| VA | SB1061 | Pass | Private activity bonds; public hearings. Updates notice requirements for public hearings on private activity bonds throughout the Code. The bill also removes the requirement that an applicant provide the approving authority with a form specified in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130) |
| VA | HB2041 | Pass | Local parks; walking trails; liability; property owners. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of walking trails and releases from certain civil liability the owner of any property leased, licensed, or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| VA | SB1291 | Pass | False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly report, or cause another to report in reliance on intentionally false information provided by such person, a false ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB1382 | Engross
Sine Die | Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Public Safety 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 | HB1810 | Engross
Sine Die | Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects local government employees from being penalized by their employer for expressing their opinion regarding a current or proposed regulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Control of firearms by localities. Removes a locality's authority to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (ii) any recreation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB838 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any city and certain towns to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) which meets the definition of "derelict building", (ii) which meet the definiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB2340 | Engross
Sine Die | Motor vehicle license plates and registration; taxes and penalties. Increases from $100 to $150 the maximum license tax that a locality is authorized to impose annually on motor vehicles not displaying current license plates. The bill increases from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 9-N) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1487 | Engross
Sine Die | Meetings of local governing body; live broadcast and archive. Requires localities to provide a live video broadcast of public meetings of the local governing body and to archive such broadcasts on their websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
VOTE: DEFEATED (47-Y 49-N) |
| 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 | 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 |
