| VA | SB612 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB658 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB952 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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) |
| VA | HB305 | Intro
25% | Regional gas tax revenues. Provides that in allocating revenues from the regional fuels tax in localities not a part of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, the Interstate 81 Corr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Stricken from docket by Transportation (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB429 | Intro
25% | Casino gaming; eligible host cities. Reduces from five to four the number of cities eligible to host a casino in the Commonwealth by removing Richmond from the list of eligible host cities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB114 | Intro
25% | Local tax credits; emergency services providers. Enables localities to by ordinance provide a credit against taxes and fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approved emergency services in the locality. As defined in the bill, "ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (7-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB200 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB136 | Intro
25% | Prohibition on certain local government appointments. Prohibits a local governing body from appointing a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB652 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-22
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government (13-Y 2-N) |
| VA | SB524 | Intro
25% | Local government; installation of water-based fire protection systems in new townhouse construction. Permits a locality to allow the installation of automatic water-based fire protection systems in new townhouse construction. The bill provides that s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 9-N 1-A) |
| VA | SB478 | Intro
25% | Vacant building registration; Town of Waverly; civil penalty. Adds the Town of Waverly to the list of localities with the authority to require the owner of buildings that have been vacant for a continuous period of 12 months or more and that meet the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
Incorporated by Local Government |
