Bill Text: VA SB136 | 2025 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Local government; prohibition on certain appointments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-22 - Continued to 2025 in Local Government (12-Y 3-N) [SB136 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2025-SB136-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 136 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 5, 2024 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-1411.1, relating to prohibition on certain local government appointments. ---------- Patron-- Head ---------- Referred to Committee on Local Government ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-1411.1 as follows:

§15.2-1411.1. Certain governing body appointments prohibited.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, no local governing body shall appoint a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or commission or as a member of a board of directors of a not-for-profit organization that receives funding from the locality.