| VA | HB338 | Engross
50% | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SJR18 | Intro
25% | Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Rules 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1070 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB721 | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB1054 | Engross
50% | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Provides that a locality may require the owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB774 | Engross
50% | Alcohol safety action program; local administrative fee. Provides that any county, city, or town, or any combination thereof, that has established and operates an alcohol safety action program and supplements fees collected for the program pursuant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB878 | Engross
50% | Purchase of development rights for affordable housing. Permits any local government to purchase development rights or accept the donation of development rights in an effort to preserve and provide affordable housing. The bill grants local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB951 | Engross
50% | Building service employees; public contracting. Permits any county, city, or town in the Commonwealth to provide for certain requirements concerning incumbent and successor service employers, defined in the bill, by local ordinance or resolution. For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB136 | Intro
25% | Prohibition on certain local government appointments. Prohibits a local governing body from appointing a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB371 | Intro
25% | Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB612 | Intro
25% | Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB200 | 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB725 | Engross
50% | Counties, cities and towns; powers of local government; conveyance of real property; public hearing requirement. Adds to the list of exemptions from the requirement imposed upon localities to hold a public hearing prior to the disposition of real pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB430 | Intro
25% | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government 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] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB658 | Intro
25% | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Labor and Commerce 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HJR40 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; tax implications of implementing a land value tax; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study tax implications of local governing bodies implementing a land val...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR65 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC; rate of accidents that cause fatalities on roads maintained and managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the rate of accidents that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB697 | Engross
50% | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1310 | Intro
25% | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HJR24 | Intro
25% | Study; joint subcommittee; Dillon Rule; report. Creates a 13-member joint subcommittee for a one-year study of the Dillon Rule and its impact on Virginia's localities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB304 | Engross
50% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB900 | Intro
25% | Zoning; development and use of accessory dwelling units. Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB952 | Intro
25% | C-PACE loans; residential dwellings and condominiums. Removes an exclusion for residential dwellings with fewer than five dwelling units and condominium projects from certain requirements related to a voluntary special assessment lien that secures a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns 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] | 2024-11-18
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB130 | Intro
25% | Constitutional officers; dual office holding; prohibited for deputies and other persons. Provides that the current prohibition on dual office holding that is applicable to constitutional officers also applies to deputies of such officers and any pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1225 | Intro
25% | County manager plan of government; powers. Broadens several powers available to counties that have adopted the county manager plan of government by giving such counties the option of following general law rather than the provisions specified in this ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| 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] | 2024-11-18
To Senate Commerce and Labor 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] | 2024-11-18
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HJR36 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Energy; local governments; purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB1122 | Intro
25% | Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HJR64 | Intro
25% | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; revenue sharing program for localities hosting data center infrastructure; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study creating a revenue sharing program for loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB171 | Engross
50% | Zoning; civil penalties; commercial uses. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving nonpermitted commercial uses. The bill also requires that for any violation involving nonpermitted commercial uses, a person who admits liabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
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] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
