Virginia Senate Bill 721 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-29 - Continued to 2025 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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) prohibiting use of the comprehensive plan as the basis, in whole or in part, for the disapproval of a site plan that is otherwise in conformity with duly adopted standards, ordinances, and statutes and (ii) allowing automatic approval of certain land use applications rather than a right to petition the circuit court, as provided under current law, if a locality does not approve or disapprove the application within the required timeframe. The bill also reduces from 12 months to four months the time within which a locality must initially act upon certain proposed zoning ordinance amendments and requires a locality to act on all such proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance or map that it has previously disapproved within 45 days after an amended proposal has been resubmitted for approval.

Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, etc.; approval process.

Sen. Tammy Brankley Mulchi [R]

2024-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-29	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-19	Senate	Referred to Committee on Local Government
2024-01-19	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 24103107D

SB721 (Carry Over) 2024-01-29 - Continued to 2025 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
HB1236 (Similar To) 2024-02-13 - Left in Counties, Cities and Towns

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2232	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2258	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2259	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2259.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2260	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2260.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2286	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB721
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB721+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S07V0027+SB0721