Virginia Code | Chapter 15

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB681	Intro Sine Die	Home-produced or small farm-produced food products. Allows the sale of food products made from any fruit, grain, herbs, honey, meat, milk, mushrooms, nuts, poultry, seafood, or vegetables by a farm employing 10 or fewer people or by a private home, s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources 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	HB668	Intro Sine Die	Timing of local elections. Provides that a locality may by ordinance shift the timing of the election of members of the local governing body from an even year to an odd year by extending the existing terms of local governing body members by one year.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VA	HB655	Engross Sine Die	Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Local fiscal distress; determination by Auditor of Public Accounts; state intervention. Sets out a procedure for determining when localities are in fiscal distress, as defined in the bill, and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 VOTE: Defeated (43-Y 55-N)
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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	HB751	Intro Sine Die	Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill and includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Public Safety Committee
VA	HB1188	Intro Sine Die	Certificate of public need program; phased elimination. Creates a three-phase process to eliminate the certificate of public need requirements for many categories of medical care facilities and projects, with elimination of the requirement for a cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Health and Human Services Committee
VA	HB1162	Intro Sine Die	Security camera monitoring by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that any law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations may establish a program to allow for the monitoring or reviewing of security c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Public Safety Committee
VA	HB1153	Engross Sine Die	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]	2024-02-13 VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N)
VA	HB1145	Intro Sine Die	Arrest, summons, etc., quotas; prohibition; civil penalty. Provides that any person employed by a law-enforcement agency or any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers who implements a formal or informal quota for arrests made, summon... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Public Safety 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	HB1304	Intro Sine Die	Required voting districts in certain cities. Requires every city with a population of 250,000 or greater to elect its council members by individual districts or wards, beginning with municipal elections held after January 1, 2025. The provisions of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections 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	HB1302	Intro Sine Die	Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections 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	HB1416	Intro Sine Die	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]	2024-02-13 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB1501	Intro Sine Die	Cash proffers; development rights. Provides that cash payments proffered pursuant to § 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	HB1456	Intro Sine Die	Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB1544	Intro Sine Die	Southside Regional Recreation Authority. [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	HB229	Intro Sine Die	Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise 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]	2024-02-09 Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
VA	HB409	Intro Sine Die	Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 11-N)
VA	HB443	Intro Sine Die	Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
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	SB567	Intro Sine Die	Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
VA	HB1459	Intro Sine Die	Zoning ordinance and amendments thereto; special exceptions; appeal. Clarifies that a claim (i) challenging the procedures employed or (ii) stating a decision is void ab initio for any reason relating to a local governing body's final decision on a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 10-N)
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	SB567	Intro Prefile	Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 To Senate Commerce and Labor 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	SB76	Intro Sine Die	Child day centers operated by religious institutions; exemption from licensure by Superintendent of Public Instruction. Exempts fully from the statutory requirement to be licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction any child day center that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 5-N 1-A)
VA	HB567	Intro Sine Die	Requirement for electric vehicle charging stations 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, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by General Laws
VA	HB636	Intro Sine Die	Siting of energy facilities; approval by State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commissio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VA	HB1253	Intro Sine Die	Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units. Provides that any locality that has adopted an affordable dwelling unit ordinance may require under such ordinance that a set percentage of the units built by a developer are compliant with the a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To House General Laws Committee
VA	HB636	Intro Prefile	Siting of energy facilities; approval by State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commissio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VA	HB1253	Intro Prefile	Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units. Provides that any locality that has adopted an affordable dwelling unit ordinance may require under such ordinance that a set percentage of the units built by a developer are compliant with the a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To House General Laws Committee
VA	HB270	Intro Sine Die	Sale, transfer, etc., of certain firearms and firearm magazines; Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program and Fund established; penalties. Provides that, unless otherwise prohibited by law, any person may import, sell, transfer, manufacture, or purchase an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB319	Intro Sine Die	Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	SB163	Intro Sine Die	Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VA	SB284	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]	2024-02-07 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VA	SB285	Intro Sine Die	Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VA	SB366	Intro Sine Die	Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (5-Y 8-N 2-A)