| VA | HB597 | Veto | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | HB1071 | Pass | Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| VA | HB2 | Veto | Purchase, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, or transfers an assault firearm, as that term is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB4 | Veto | Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns. Provides that any town located within a county that has imposed a disposable plastic bag tax shall receive a distribution of revenues collected by the county based on the local sales tax distribution formula fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB208 | Veto | Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB776 | Veto | Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States for no less than 60 months and who are both eligible for and have app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB405 | Veto | Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; evaluation of infrastructure necessary for electric vehicle charging facilities. Directs the State Corporation Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB805 | Veto | 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] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB529 | Veto | Conservation and replacement of trees during development process. Expands certain existing local government authority to conserve or replace trees during the development process by expanding such authority statewide. The bill allows localities to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1128 | Pass | Children's advocacy centers; definitions; investigations by local departments of social services. Replaces the term "child advocacy center" with "children's advocacy center" and defines such term. The bill provides that if it is determined during a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) |
| VA | HB906 | Pass | Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting service to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824) |
| VA | HB852 | Pass | Local government ordinances related to fire departments; billing on behalf of volunteer fire departments. Provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town in which a fire department or fire company is established may make such ordinances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0823) |
| VA | HB953 | Veto | Local Environmental Impact Fund. Allows localities to create a permanent and perpetual fund to be known as the Local Environmental Impact Fund. The bill provides that the Fund shall consist exclusively of appropriated local moneys and any gifts, dona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1100 | Veto | Conservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1167 | Veto | Local prohibition on the sale of English ivy; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of English ivy, with violations punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $50 for a first violation and not to exceed $2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1028 | Veto | Affordable housing; assisted living facilities. Allows localities that have adopted an affordable housing program to require that in an application for a special exception or special use permit affordable rental units be included for any proposed dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1386 | Veto | Firearms; workplace rules of localities. Provides that any locality that adopts an ordinance prohibiting the public carrying of firearms shall not have workplace rules that are less restrictive than such ordinance. Firearms; workplace rules of local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1415 | Pass | Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835) |
| VA | HB1408 | Veto | Voter satellite offices; standards and guidelines for determining number and location. Directs the Department of Elections to develop standards and guidelines for local governing bodies to utilize when determining the number of voter satellite office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1398 | Veto | Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB673 | Pass | Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund; projects; low-income geographic areas; nature-based solutions. Provides that the Department of Conservation and Recreation shall give additional weight to projects located in low-income geographic areas and projects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| VA | HB151 | Pass | Department of Energy; building standards for certain local buildings. Requires the Department of Energy, upon request, to provide technical assistance to localities, subject to available budgetary resources, as localities implement mandates related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687) |
| VA | HB459 | Pass | Conservation of trees during land development process in certain localities. Expands authority of certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process by allowing a tree canopy fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) |
| VA | HB478 | Pass | Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692) |
| VA | HB456 | Pass | City council salaries. Increases the statutory salary caps for members of city councils and requires a public hearing prior to adopting an ordinance to set city council salaries. The bill also provides that the maximum salaries may be adjusted in any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0608) |
| VA | HB467 | Pass | Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| VA | HB755 | Pass | Civil penalties for certain local property violations; industrial and commercial areas. Allows localities by ordinance to charge enhanced civil penalties for certain local property violations on property that is zoned or utilized for industrial or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731) |
| VA | HB1395 | Pass | Historic preservation. Provides that the filing of a building permit or demolition application shall stay a locality from issuing any permit to raze or demolish a historic landmark, building, or structure until 30 days after the rendering of the fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0752) |
| VA | HB1211 | Pass | Tax assessment districts; petition by parcel owners. Changes the threshold for petitioning a city or town for establishment of a tax assessment district from not less than three-fourths of the landowners affected to the owners of not less than three-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740) |
| VA | HB1287 | Pass | Towing companies; local authority. Clarifies that the provisions of existing law authorizing localities in Planning District 8 to require towing companies that tow from the county, city, or town to a storage or release location outside of the localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653) |
| VA | HB1486 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0613) |
| VA | HB1461 | Pass | Short-term rental property; locality's ability to prohibit lessee or sublessee operator. Prohibits a locality from barring an operator, as defined in existing law, from offering such property as a short-term rental solely on the basis that the operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700) |
| VA | HB62 | Pass | Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) |
| VA | HB1496 | Pass | Surveillance technology reporting by state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments. Requires all state and local law-enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments to provide to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0614) |
| VA | HB947 | Pass | Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) |
| VA | HB914 | Pass | Local historic districts; tax incentives. Allows a locality that establishes a local historic district to provide tax incentives for the conservation and renovation of historic structures in such district. The bill provides that such incentives may i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| VA | HB1019 | Pass | Health insurance for local employees. Permits any locality to allow participation in its group health insurance program by any non-benefitted employee, including members of governing bodies, if such non-benefitted employee or governing body member is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) |
| VA | HB234 | Pass | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436) |
| VA | HB1503 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0488) |
| VA | HB1392 | Pass | Local government employee insurance programs. Authorizes any locality to include in its group life, accident, and health insurance programs any person to whom coverage could be extended under the provision of current law that sets out who may be cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481) |
| VA | HB1410 | Pass | Russell County Industrial Development Authority; appointments. Clarifies that the board of supervisors of Russell County may appoint nine members to its industrial development authority, which shall consist of two members from the governing body of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483) |
| VA | HB1430 | Pass | Local library boards; King and Queen County. Adds King and Queen County to the list of localities that are not required to establish a library board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| VA | HB1396 | Pass | Days of operation of clerks' offices; clerks' authority to close office. Allows the clerk of the circuit court of any county or city to close the clerk's office on (i) Christmas Eve; (ii) any day or portion of a day that the Governor declares as a ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482) |
| VA | HB311 | Pass | Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals. Mandates that all local public bodies provide an option to submit bids or proposals for procurement contracts through the Commonwealth's statewide elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438) |
| VA | HB581 | Pass | Human trafficking response teams. Requires attorneys for the Commonwealth to establish multidisciplinary human trafficking response teams. The bill provides that each team shall hold a meeting, at least annually, to (i) discuss implementation of prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0366) |
| VA | HB5 | Pass | Town of Leesburg Parking Authority. Authorizes the creation of the Town of Leesburg Parking Authority. The bill grants to the Authority various powers, including the authority to construct, operate, and lease parking facilities, contract with outside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0265) |
| VA | HB144 | Pass | Change in speed limits; notification. Requires Change in speed limits; notification. Requires the Department of Transportation, if the Commissioner of Highways increases or decreases a speed limit, to notify the primary liaison with the Department in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| VA | HB634 | Pass | Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer. Prohibits a locality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that bans the rental of residential dwelling units for 30 consecutive days or longer. The bill allows a locality by or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300) |
| VA | HB525 | Pass | Casino gaming; limits on required local referendums. Provides that the governing body of any eligible host city that holds a local referendum on the question of whether casino gaming should be permitted in such city that subsequently fails shall be p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0291) |
| VA | HB650 | Pass | Zoning; residential and electrical generation projects; period of validity. Provides that the conditions of a special exception or special use permit may include a period of validity; however, in the case of a special exception or special use permit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0301) |
