| VA | HB1514 | Engross
50% | Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority and Financing Fund established; report. Establishes the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a sports and entertainment campus. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB73 | Engross
50% | Photo-monitoring system for traffic signals; proof of violation; retired law-enforcement officials. Allows a locality to employ a retired sworn law-enforcement officer, as defined in the bill, to review photographs, microphotographs, videotape, or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB641 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB549 | Engross
50% | Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds, as defined in the bill, that is anticipated to exceed $5,000 shall be subject to approval in advance by a vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB316 | Engross
50% | Conservation of trees; Town of Vienna. Allows the Town of Vienna, by ordinance, to require that a subdivision or development provide for the preservation or replacement of trees on the development site such that the minimum tree canopy 10 years after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
VOTE: DEFEATED (52-Y 48-N) |
| VA | HB878 | Engross
50% | Purchase of development rights for affordable housing. Permits any local government to purchase development rights or accept the donation of development rights in an effort to preserve and provide affordable housing. The bill grants local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB697 | Engross
50% | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1070 | Engross
50% | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB79 | Engross
50% | Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Tabled in Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB725 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB1054 | Engross
50% | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Provides that a locality may require the owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB304 | Engross
50% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-16
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB378 | Engross
50% | Release of developer performance guarantees. Clarifies that existing provisions related to the periodic partial and final release of developer performance guarantees also applies to performance guarantees for erosion and sediment control measures, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (47-Y 52-N) |
| VA | HB655 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB644 | Engross
50% | Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The ordinance may include provisions for a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1153 | Engross
50% | 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) |
