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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB1356	Intro 25%	Local planning commission; action on proposed plats, site plans, and development plans; residential use. Requires local planning commissions to use the same approval process for residential development projects as is currently required for commercial... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB1119	Intro 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB751	Intro 25%	Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill and includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Public Safety Committee
VA	HB1162	Intro 25%	Security camera monitoring by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that any law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations may establish a program to allow for the monitoring or reviewing of security c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Public Safety Committee
VA	HB1159	Intro 25%	Individual income tax; distribution of revenues; local school construction. Requires distribution of one percent of the individual income tax revenues collected from residents of a locality to be distributed to that locality. The bill requires such f... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee
VA	HB1034	Intro 25%	Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to adopt a uniform schedule of civil penalties for the violation of provisions of the zoning ordinance related to short-term rentals. The schedule of civil pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB1308	Intro 25%	Tangible personal property tax relief; rate of taxation. Removes the $950 million cap, beginning in tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, on the amount of tangible personal property tax relief reimbursed to localities by the Commonwealth. The b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee
VA	HB1304	Intro 25%	Required voting districts in certain cities. Requires every city with a population of 250,000 or greater to elect its council members by individual districts or wards, beginning with municipal elections held after January 1, 2025. The provisions of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VA	HB1145	Intro 25%	Arrest, summons, etc., quotas; prohibition; civil penalty. Provides that any person employed by a law-enforcement agency or any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers who implements a formal or informal quota for arrests made, summon... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Public Safety 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)
VA	HB1416	Intro 25%	Funding for deputy sheriffs. Provides that the minimum number of deputies funded by the Compensation Board shall be one deputy per 1,500 persons or one deputy for every 25 square miles, whichever is greater. Under current law, the funding is fixed at... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB1236	Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB1440	Intro 25%	Virginia Public Procurement Act; public works contracts; project labor agreements. Removes the statutory authority for any public body, including any state or local government, when engaged in procuring products or services or letting contracts for c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House General Laws Committee
VA	HB1444	Intro 25%	Distribution of state sales and use tax based on the population of cities and counties ages five to 19 and for the state's share of Standards of Quality basic aid payments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	HB1544	Intro 25%	Southside Regional Recreation Authority. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB1501	Intro 25%	Cash proffers; development rights. Provides that cash payments proffered pursuant to § 15.2-2298, 15.2-2303, or 15.2-2303.1 may be used for the purpose of extinguishing development rights elsewhere in the locality if the development rights to be ext... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HJR33	Intro 25%	Study; JLARC; potential effects of revising the distribution of 599 funding to distressed localities with high crime and poverty rates; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential effects of revising the d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Rules Committee
VA	HB1533	Intro 25%	Local zoning regulations related to mines; Planning District 8. Provides that localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may establish standards and adopt zoning regulations related to mines and mineral mines that exceed standards and regu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-13 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	SB247	Intro 25%	Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor building service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-12 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VA	HB229	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]	2024-02-09 Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
VA	HB409	Intro 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 11-N)
VA	HB417	Intro 25%	Vacancies in elected local offices; timeliness of special election to fill vacancy. Provides that when a vacancy occurs in an elected local office that is subject to a ward-based or district-based residency requirement, the election to fill such vaca... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 11-N)
VA	HB443	Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
VA	HB646	Intro 25%	Zoning; certified recovery residence. Requires that a locality's zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider a certified recovery residence in which individuals with substance use disorder reside as residential occupancy by a single family. The... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB1093	Intro 25%	Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementing an unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality sha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
VA	HB1459	Intro 25%	Zoning ordinance and amendments thereto; special exceptions; appeal. Clarifies that a claim (i) challenging the procedures employed or (ii) stating a decision is void ab initio for any reason relating to a local governing body's final decision on a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 10-N)
VA	SB567	Intro 25%	Siting of energy facilities; approval by the State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
VA	HB1149	Intro 25%	Removal of elected and certain appointed local officers by courts; Governor. Allows the Governor to petition the circuit court to remove from office any local elected officer or local officer who has been appointed to fill a local elective office due... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N)
VA	HB1530	Intro 25%	Elections; administration; chief deputy and other deputy registrars. Requires that each locality have one chief deputy registrar. The bill requires any chief deputy registrar serving on a full-time basis to be paid not less than 60 percent of the sal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (18-Y 4-N)
VA	HB567	Intro 25%	Requirement for electric vehicle charging stations for certain developments. Provides that any locality may by ordinance require electric vehicle charging stations as part of subdivision or site plan approval for a development containing commercial, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Incorporated by General Laws
VA	HB636	Intro 25%	Siting of energy facilities; approval by State Corporation Commission. Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commissio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VA	HB1253	Intro 25%	Affordable dwelling unit ordinances; accessible units. Provides that any locality that has adopted an affordable dwelling unit ordinance may require under such ordinance that a set percentage of the units built by a developer are compliant with the a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 To House General Laws Committee
VA	HB319	Intro 25%	Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee
VA	SB163	Intro 25%	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]	2024-02-07 To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VA	SB284	Intro 25%	Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VA	SB285	Intro 25%	Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VA	HB721	Intro 25%	Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 To House Courts of Justice Committee
VA	SB366	Intro 25%	Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Failed to report (defeated) in General Laws and Technology (5-Y 8-N 2-A)
VA	SB669	Intro 25%	Local economic development commitments. Provides that any economic development commitments that are affirmatively stated in a public meeting shall be binding, reflected in any agreement with the locality, and enforceable through a judicial relief act... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
VA	SB720	Intro 25%	Sanctuary policies prohibited. Provides that no locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy intended to restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws. The bill also requires an official in charge of a correctional facility to tran... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-07 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VA	HB20	Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-06 To House Transportation Committee
VA	SB294	Intro 25%	Local tax; penalties and interest. Requires localities to apply voluntary payments made by a taxpayer to the tax return that accompanies such payment. The bill provides that no interest will accrue on any unpaid balances 90 days after the date on whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-06 Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
VA	HB905	Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-06 Incorporated by Transportation
VA	SB345	Intro 25%	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]	2024-02-06 Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations
VA	HB733	Intro 25%	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; units occupied by elderly tenants; rent stabilization allowance. Allows any locality to adopt rent stabilization provisions to prohibit any landlord, defined in the bill, from increasing the rent on any u... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-06 Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N)
VA	SB305	Intro 25%	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 bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 To Senate Local Government Committee
VA	SB409	Intro 25%	Energy efficiency and climate standards; more stringent energy efficiency and climate requirements. Allows a locality by ordinance to adopt and require compliance with stretch codes, as defined in the bill, for the construction or rehabilitation of b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N)
VA	SB715	Intro 25%	Local review of zoning decisions. Clarifies that a locality may schedule regular reviews of previous zoning decisions in order to determine whether provisions of the zoning ordinance (i) continue to meet the general purpose of promoting the health, s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-05 Stricken at request of Patron in Local Government (13-Y 0-N)
VA	HB170	Intro 25%	Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning Di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-02 Incorporated by Counties, Cities and Towns
VA	HB301	Intro 25%	Local enforcement of property maintenance. Adds the violation of one or more local ordinances related to the proper maintenance of property to existing provisions that allow a locality to require a property owner to remove, repair, or secure a buildi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-02 Failed to report (defeated) in Counties, Cities and Towns (10-Y 12-N)