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VASB188Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor
VAHB799VetoConcealed handgun permit applications; fingerprints required by local governments. Requires an applicant for a concealed handgun permit or a renewal of such permit to submit fingerprints as part of the application. The bill provides that any demonstr...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB852PassLocal 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...
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2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 823 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB947PassLocal 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 536 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB234PassAll-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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)
VASB516PassAll-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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 510 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB1503PassOmitted 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 488 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB1392PassLocal 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 481 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB650PassDepartment of Fire Programs; work group; options for local government employees who respond to emergencies with toxic material exposure. Directs the Department of Fire Programs to convene a work group to identify and analyze options to help ensure th...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363)
VAHB69PassVacancies in elected local offices; interim appointments; notice requirement. Requires the local governing body or elected school board making an interim appointment to fill a vacancy in the membership of such body or board to hold a public meeting a...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168)
VAHB1488PassLocal 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225)
VASB413PassLocal 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242)
VAHB133PassDepartment of Fire Programs; work group; options for local government employees who respond to emergencies with toxic material exposure. Directs the Department of Fire Programs to convene a work group to identify and analyze options to help ensure th...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174)
VAHB951Engross
50%
Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB1052Engross
50%
Department of Health; local government; alternative and conventional onsite sewage systems. Requires localities to review the Department of Health's database prior to notifying the owners of an alternative or conventional onsite sewage system about t...
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2024-02-28
Defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-N)
VAHB725Engross
50%
Counties, cities and towns; powers of local government; conveyance of real property; public hearing requirement. Adds to the list of exemptions from the requirement imposed upon localities to hold a public hearing prior to the disposition of real pro...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee
VAHB226Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB345Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB364Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee
VAHB539Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VAHB1302Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1119Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VAHB867Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VAHB1236Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VAHB348Intro
25%
Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands Employment; paid sick leave; civil penalties. Expands provisions of the Code that currently require one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked for home health workers to cover all emplo...
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB443Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-09
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
VAHB409Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 11-N)
VAHB20Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB905Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation
VAHB533Intro
25%
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 on any highway in such locality with a speed limit of 45 mi...
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2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation
VASB328Intro
25%
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB472Intro
25%
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
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2024-02-06
Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VAHB38Intro
25%
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB300Intro
25%
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB630Intro
25%
Virginia Retirement System; enhanced retirement benefits for 911 dispatchers. Allows local governments to provide enhanced retirement benefits for hazardous duty service to full-time salaried 911 dispatchers. The bill provides that such enhanced reti...
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2024-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHJR36Intro
25%
Study; Department of Energy; local governments; purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their ...
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2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VASB288Intro
25%
Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident...
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2024-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N)
VASB721Intro
25%
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...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Local Government Committee
VAHB899Intro
25%
State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; deadline for annual filing of disclosure statements; deadline for public disclosure. Changes the filing deadline for statements of economic inte...
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2024-01-25
To House General Laws Committee
VASB136Intro
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 ...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Local Government Committee
VASB524Intro
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...
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2024-01-22
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 9-N 1-A)
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