| VA | SB14 | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB49 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 701 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB48 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 616 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 687 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB93 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 758 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 691 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB121 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 702 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 692 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB188 | Enroll
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| VA | HB1071 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 608 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 724 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB245 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 706 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB354 | 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 769 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 731 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1128 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| VA | SB428 | Veto | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Clarifies the requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires the results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB480 | Enroll
75% | Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; report; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| VA | SB479 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| VA | HB852 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB595 | 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 752 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 740 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB477 | Veto | Blighted and derelict properties in certain localities; rate of tax. Allows the governing body of a locality with a score of 100 or higher on the fiscal stress index to levy a real property tax on blighted and derelict properties at a rate exceeding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 653 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 613 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB544 | Enroll
75% | Short-term rental property; special exceptions. Prohibits a locality from barring the use of or requiring that a special exception, special use, or conditional use permit be obtained for the use of a residential dwelling as a short-term rental where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 700 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB597 | Veto | Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 614 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1397 | Enroll
75% | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; manufactured home park; notice of sale and relocation expenses. Requires a manufactured home park owner to provide notice to the Department of Housing and Community Development and each manufactured home park tenant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 712 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB9 | Pass | Department of real estate assessment; Orange County. Authorizes Orange County to establish a department of real estate assessment and to enter into an agreement with a contiguous county or city to establish a joint department of real estate assessmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 570 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 536 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 533 (effective 7/1/24) |
| 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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 541 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1415 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Governor's recommendation received by House |
| VA | SB564 | Pass | Individual income tax subtraction; income earned in certain localities. Directs the Department of Taxation and the Commission on Local Government to assess the need for income tax relief in double distressed localities in the Commonwealth that have e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 599 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB701 | Pass | Vested rights; building permits. Provides that if a locality has issued a building permit, despite nonconformance with the zoning ordinance, and a property owner, relying in good faith on the issuance of the building permit, incurs extensive obligati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 605 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB17 | Pass | Motor sports facilities; local incentives. Allows a locality that is home to a motor sports facility, as defined in relevant law, in the Commonwealth to propose local incentives that address the economic conditions within such locality and will help ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 572 (effective 7/1/24) |
