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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB226	Intro Sine Die	Omitted taxes; installment agreements. Allows the governing body of a locality to allow its treasurer or other collecting official to enter into an installment agreement lasting up to 72 months for payment of taxes by a taxpayer who has been assessed... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Rules Committee
VA	HB147	Intro Sine Die	Reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Courts of Justice Committee
VA	HB235	Intro Sine Die	Persons occupying street for commercial use; civil penalty. Allows cities and towns by ordinance to establish a uniform schedule of civil penalties for commercial use of a street, avenue, park, bridge, or any other public place or public property or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB297	Intro Sine Die	Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Planning District 4. Adds Planning District 4 (New River Valley Region) to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
VA	HB193	Intro Sine Die	Sales tax; additional local tax for schools; Stafford County. Adds Stafford County to the list of localities that are authorized to impose an additional local sales tax at a rate not to exceed one percent in order to provide revenue for the construct... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee
VA	HB458	Intro 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]	2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee
VA	HB344	Intro Sine Die	Displacement of private waste companies. Reduces from five years to one year the period of time a locality must provide notice to a private waste company before the locality engages in the actual provision of the waste service that displaces the comp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB280	Intro Sine Die	Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from serving in any position of public trust within the Commonwealth for life if such person is convicted of certain offenses related ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VA	HB476	Intro Sine Die	Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any county, city, or town to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and (i) that meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law, (ii) that meet... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB293	Intro Sine Die	Disposal of unclaimed property in possession of sheriff or police; notice of public display and sale. Allows a law-enforcement agency to publish the required notice that there will be a public display and sale of certain unclaimed personal property t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB334	Intro Sine Die	Certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators by localities. Repeals an existing statute that allows localities by ordinance to require certification of boiler and pressure vessel operators. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB337	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]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB345	Intro Sine Die	Timing of local elections. Allows a city or town by majority vote of the local governing body to hold its municipal elections on the first Tuesday in May for terms to commence July 1, in which case the terms of council members shall be extended by si... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VA	HB377	Intro Sine Die	Zoning; traffic impact statements. Prohibits a locality from requiring a local traffic impact statement as a condition for approval of a rezoning application that involves a multifamily residential use of fewer than 50 residential units. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB364	Intro Sine Die	Local government; water-filled fire sprinkler systems. Permits a locality to allow the installation of automatic water-filled or wet-pipe fire sprinkler systems in new townhome construction. The bill provides that such ordinance shall require the ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House General Laws Committee
VA	HB600	Intro 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]	2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee
VA	HB539	Intro Sine Die	Release of developer performance guarantees. Provides that no governing body or administrative agency shall refuse to make a periodic partial or final release of a bond, escrow, letter of credit, or other performance guarantee for the actions of anyo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB393	Intro Sine Die	Elections; election reform. Requires Elections; election reform. Requires that the general register of each locality publish on the official website of the locality (i) monthly, a list of all registered voters added to or removed from each precinct i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections 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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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