VA SB1476 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-30 - Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-30 - Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]
Summary
Sale of certain vacant and blighted or derelict property. Allows a locality where certain vacant and blighted or derelict property is located to petition the circuit court to appoint a special commissioner to execute the necessary deed or deeds to convey the real estate, in lieu of a sale at public auction, to the locality, to the locality's land bank entity, or to an existing nonprofit entity designated by the locality to carry out the functions of a land bank. The bill provides that the locality shall require any purchaser by covenants in the deed or other security instrument to (i) begin repair or renovation of the property within six months of purchase and (ii) complete all repairs or renovations necessary to bring the property into compliance with the local building code within a period not to exceed two years of the purchase.
Title
Vacant and blighted or derelict property; locality allowed to sell.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-30 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) (Y: 32 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-28 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-27 - Senate - Reported from Local Government with amendments (11-Y 3-N) (Y: 11 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-28 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-27 - Senate - Reported from Local Government with amendments (11-Y 3-N) (Y: 11 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Printed as engrossed 25104403D-E |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate as amended |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Committee amendment agreed to |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Reading of amendment waived |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Reported from Local Government with amendments (11-Y 3-N) |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Local Government |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Presented and ordered printed 25104403D |
