| 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) |
| VA | HB721 | 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
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Local economic development commitments. Provides that any economic development commitments that are affirmatively stated in a public meeting shall be binding, reflected in any agreement with the locality, and enforceable through a judicial relief act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N) |
| VA | SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanctuary policies prohibited. Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy intended to restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws. The bill also requires an official in charge of a correctional facility to tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB285 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | SB284 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | HB319 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | HB721 | Intro
Prefile | 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
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB270 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | SB163 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; units occupied by elderly tenants; rent stabilization allowance. Allows any locality to adopt rent stabilization provisions to prohibit any landlord, defined in the bill, from increasing the rent on any u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB305 | Intro
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 bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy efficiency and climate standards; more stringent energy efficiency and climate requirements. Allows a locality by ordinance to adopt and require compliance with stretch codes, as defined in the bill, for the construction or rehabilitation of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Local review of zoning decisions. Clarifies that a locality may schedule regular reviews of previous zoning decisions in order to determine whether provisions of the zoning ordinance (i) continue to meet the general purpose of promoting the health, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB305 | Intro
Prefile | 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 bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns |
| VA | HB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Local enforcement of property maintenance. Adds the violation of one or more local ordinances related to the proper maintenance of property to existing provisions that allow a locality to require a property owner to remove, repair, or secure a buildi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 12-N) |
| VA | HB534 | Intro
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 canopies or covers 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB130 | Intro
Prefile | Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB371 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to terrorism hoax incident, bomb threat, malicious activation of fire alarm, or false emergency communication to emergency personnel. Allows a locality that has an ordinance requiring any person over 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB721 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB721 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB371 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB612 | Intro
Prefile | Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB430 | Intro
Prefile | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government 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
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 | HB1522 | Intro
Sine Die | Location of assisted living facilities and group homes. Prohibits localities from allowing certain assisted living facilities and group homes with eight or fewer residents approved by the locality on or after July 1, 2024, to be located within one mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) |
