| VA | HB704 | Intro
Sine Die | Localities; liability for owning or operating vehicle. Provides that in any case in which a locality is the owner of, or operator through medium of a driver of, or otherwise is the insured under the policy upon a vehicle involved in an accident, or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1036 | Intro
Sine Die | Local tax authority; nicotine vapor products. Authorizes localities by ordinance to impose a sales and use tax on nicotine vapor products, defined in the bill to include liquid nicotine in closed and open systems, as such terms are defined in the bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance 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 | HB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax; distribution of revenues; local school construction. Requires distribution of one percent of the individual income tax revenues collected from residents of a locality to be distributed to that locality. The bill requires such f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1308 | Intro
Sine Die | Tangible personal property tax relief; rate of taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personal property tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth. The b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance 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 | 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 | HB1440 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; public works contracts; project labor agreements. Removes the statutory authority for any public body, including any state or local government, when engaged in procuring products or services or letting contracts for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1444 | Intro
Sine Die | Distribution of state sales and use tax based on the population of cities and counties ages five to 19 and for the state's share of Standards of Quality basic aid payments.
[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 | 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 | 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 | HB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Vacancies in elected local offices; timeliness of special election to fill vacancy. Provides that when a vacancy occurs in an elected local office that is subject to a ward-based or district-based residency requirement, the election to fill such vaca...
[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 | HB1530 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; administration; chief deputy and other deputy registrars. Requires that each locality have one chief deputy registrar. The bill requires any chief deputy registrar serving on a full-time basis to be paid not less than 60 percent of the sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (18-Y 4-N) |
| 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 | HB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Removal of elected and certain appointed local officers by courts; Governor. Allows the Governor to petition the circuit court to remove from office any local elected officer or local officer who has been appointed to fill a local elective office due...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring devices; location. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of photo speed monitoring devices in any location deemed necessary by the locality for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB905 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring devices; location. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of photo speed monitoring devices in any location deemed necessary by the locality for the pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation |
