| 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 | SB1459 | Pass | Administration of state government; prohibited applications and websites. Prohibits any employee or agent of any public body or person or entity contracting with any such public body from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeCh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0768) |
| 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 | SB1258 | Pass | Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility for the purpose of allowing a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| 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 | 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 | HB1789 | Pass | Health insurance credits for certain local officials and employees. Increases the amount of monthly health insurance credits received by retired constitutional officers and their employees with a minimum of 15 years of creditable service from $1.50 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0581) |
| VA | HB2186 | Pass | Trespass; other person lawfully in charge of the property; locality. Provides that the maintenance code official of a locality is considered a person lawfully in charge of real property that has been declared a derelict building, unless the owner of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2037 | Pass | Supplementing compensation of public defender. Allows the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the public defender or any of his deputies to pay such funds directly to the Indigent Defense Commission or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) |
| VA | HB2498 | Pass | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; training for local officials; members of park authorities' boards. Adds members of any boards governing any authority established pursuant to the Park Authorities Act to the list of persons to whom the Virginia Fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| VA | SB1413 | Pass | Motion for the disclosure of expunged records in a civil case. Provides that in an action for damages against a locality or a law-enforcement officer arising out of or relating to charges where a petition for the expungement of police and court recor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0465) |
| VA | HB1442 | Pass | Transient occupancy tax; administration. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually publish on its website the current transient occupancy tax rates imposed in each locality. The bill also (i) requires the tax-assessing officer of a locality to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410) |
| VA | HB1510 | Pass | Local incentives for urban green space. Authorizes localities to establish programs to provide regulatory flexibility to encourage the preservation, restoration, or development of urban green space, defined in the bill. The regulatory flexibility may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2110 | Pass | Delinquent tax lands. Extends the maximum duration of an installment agreement between a locality and a landowner to pay delinquent taxes from 60 to 72 months. Delinquent tax lands. Extends the maximum duration of an installment agreement between a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0292) |
| VA | HB2191 | Pass | Removal by locality of unattended or immobile vehicles. Allows for the removal of certain unattended or immobile vehicles by the locality's civil code enforcement division. Current law provides that such removal must be carried out under the directio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0355) |
| VA | HB2220 | Pass | GO Virginia grants; matching funds; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2025, the sunset date of the provision that allows a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants. GO Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) |
| 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 | HB2443 | Pass | Certificates of election; persons elected by write-in votes; exception for certain localities. Provides that in an election for a local office in a locality with a population of no more than 4,000 persons, if the person having the highest number of v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1941 | Pass | Loans to local governments; repair or upgrade to onsite sewage disposal systems. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to provide loans from the Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund to a local government for the purpose of correcting onsite se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) |
| VA | HB2095 | Pass | Plans and programs; drought evaluation and response plans; Potomac River. Requires the State Water Control Board to recognize service areas for water utilities in the Commonwealth that use the Potomac River as a water supply source as a distinct drou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0036) |
| VA | SB1149 | Pass | Plans and programs; drought evaluation and response plans; Potomac River. Requires the State Water Control Board to recognize service areas for water utilities in the Commonwealth that use the Potomac River as a water supply source as a distinct drou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0037) |
| 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 | HB1572 | 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 (CHAP0022) |
| VA | SJR226 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); local government; sale of property; authority to grant perpetual easements to units of government. Allows easements on public property to be granted in perpetuity to a public body, political subdivision, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | SB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Division superintendents; certain localities; qualifications. Provides that the Board of Education shall require any candidate for division superintendent of a local school division serving a locality with a population greater than 140,000 people to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB1351 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene no more than 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House General Laws Committee |
