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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in all counties & cities to support schools. [HB-2316]
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax. This bill is a recommendation of the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
Left In Finance on 02/07/2023
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Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority, comprehensive plan. [SB-1331]
Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts such authorization to counties with an urban county executive form of government or county manager plan of government and certain other localities. The bill also requires the comprehensive plan of each locality to show the connection between affordable housing and other needs of its residents, such as
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Incorporated By Local Government on 01/30/2023
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Materials recovery facilities; local regulation. [SB-1365]
Local regulation of materials recovery facilities. Provides that an ordinance adopted by a locality that would prevent or prohibit the disposal of garbage, trash, or refuse does not include any facility-generated waste residue from a materials recovery facility, as defined in the bill, that has been issued a permit by the Department of Environmental Quality. Local regulation of materials recovery facilities. Provides that an ordinance adopted by a locality that would prevent or prohibit the disposal of garbage, trash, or refuse does not include
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/22/2023
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Sales and use tax, local; additional tax authorized in all counties & cities to support schools. [SB-1408]
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools; referendum. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools if such levy is approved in a voter referendum. Under current law, only Charlotte, Gloucester, Halifax, Henry, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties and the City of Danville are authorized to impose such a tax. This bill is a recommendation of the
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Left In Finance on 02/22/2023
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Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict property managed by a Virginia realtor. [SB-1391]
Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict property managed by a Virginia realtor. Provides that a locality may not restrict by ordinance any short-term rental property managed by a Virginia realtor, defined in the bill. The bill provides that a locality may not enforce an ordinance against such property where the ordinance (i) prohibits short-term rentals; (ii) limits occupancy in a short-term rental property to less than what is allowed under the building code or local
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Passed By Indefinitely In Local Government With Letter (13-y 0-n) on 01/30/2023
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Amendment of death certificates; county and city registrars. [SB-1416]
Amendment of death certificates; county and city registrars. Requires a county or city registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting evidence testifying to corrected information on a death certificate within 45 days of the filing of a death certificate, to amend such death certificate to reflect the new information and evidence and to forward such affidavit and supporting evidence to the State Registrar. Amendment of death certificates; county and city registrars. Requires a county or city registrar, upon receipt of an affidavit and supporting
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Sponsored by: Sen. Todd Pillion
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Education And Health (14-y 1-n) on 02/02/2023
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Firearms, etc.; control of possession by locality. [SB-1236]
Control of firearms by localities. Removes a locality's authority to prohibit the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (ii) any recreation or community center facility operated by the locality; or (iii) any public street, road, alley, or sidewalk or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public and is being used by or is adjacent to a permitted event or an event that would otherwise require a permit.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Passed By Indefinitely In Judiciary (9-y 6-n) on 01/23/2023
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; allows local public bodies to hold virtual meetings. [SB-1309]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; allow local public bodies to hold virtual meetings. Allows local public bodies, except for boards with the authority to deny, revoke, or suspend a professional or occupational license, to hold all-virtual public meetings in accordance with the other provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill limits the requirement that public bodies do not convene all-virtual public meetings consecutively or more than twice per year to state public bodies.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Passed By Indefinitely In General Laws And Technology (8-y 6-n) on 02/01/2023
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Law-enforcement officers; minimum qualifications, citizenship. [HB-2144]
Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States and who are eligible for United States citizenship or individuals granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to qualify for the positions of chief of police and all police officers of any locality, all deputy sheriffs and jail officers in the Commonwealth, and all law-enforcement officers. The bill allows any agency or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcus Simon
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Virginia Retirement System; school resource officers. [HB-2292]
Virginia Retirement System; school resource officers. Requires localities to provide enhanced retirement benefits to school resource officers. The bill also allows a retired law-enforcement officer to return to work as a school resource officer after a break in service of at least 12 months without impacting his retirement benefits.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wren Williams
Left In Appropriations on 02/07/2023
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False emergency communication to emergency personnel; false information, penalties, report. [SB-1291]
False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly report, or cause another to report in reliance on intentionally false information provided by such person, a false emergency communication to any emergency personnel that results in an emergency response. False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly report, or cause another to report in reliance on intentionally false information
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Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0023) on 03/16/2023
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School crossing zones; signs shall be placed not more than 750 feet from school limits. [HB-2104]
School crossing zones. Increases the maximum boundaries of a school crossing zone from 600 feet to 750 feet from the limits of school property. School crossing zones. Increases the maximum boundaries of a school crossing zone from 600 feet to 750 feet from the limits of school property.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0084) on 03/21/2023
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Short-term rentals; special exceptions. [HB-2103]
Special exceptions; short-term rentals. Allows any locality to impose a condition upon any special exception or special use permit relating to short-term rentals that provides that such special exception or special use permit will automatically expire upon a change of ownership of the property, a change in the owner of the business or a transfer of majority control of a business entity, a change in possession, a change in the operation or management of a facility, or the passage of a specific period of time.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Hudson
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Public defender; supplementing compensation. [HB-2037]
Supplementing compensation of public defender. Allows the governing body of any county or city that elects to supplement the compensation of the public defender or any of his deputies to pay such funds directly to the Indigent Defense Commission or to the employees with notice to the Commission of any amount so provided. The bill requires the Commission to provide the funds directly to employees in combination with the compensation fixed by the executive director. Current law requires that such funds be provided directly to the employees, with notice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Briana Sewell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0467) on 03/24/2023
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Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions. [HB-2161]
Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published in newspapers and other print media. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into the following three groups: (i) publication required one week before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required two consecutive weeks before the meeting, hearing,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wren Williams
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0507) on 03/24/2023
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Election of council for cities and towns; exemption from district-based and ward-based restrictions. [HB-2257]
Elections; local offices; election of council for cities and towns; exemption from district-based and ward-based restrictions for small localities. Exempts any city or town with a population of 25,000 or fewer persons that imposes district-based or ward-based residency requirements for members of the city or town council from the requirement that the member elected from each district or ward be elected by the qualified voters of that district or ward and not by the locality at large. Elections; local offices; election of council for cities and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Aijalon Cordoza
Passed By Indefinitely In Privileges And Elections (9-y 6-n) on 02/14/2023
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Assist Localities with Translation of Essential Documents Fund; established. [HB-2243]
Fund to Assist Localities with Translation of Essential Documents established. Establishes the Fund to Assist Localities with Translation of Essential Documents to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of making grants to local governments to address the availability of translated essential documents for those citizens and taxpayers of the Commonwealth and its localities for whom English is a second language. The bill provides that the Fund shall make grants to local governments for the purpose of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Appropriations on 02/07/2023
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Electric vehicle charging stations; requirement for certain developments. [SB-1312]
Electric vehicle charging stations; requirement 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, industrial, or multifamily residential uses with a density of seven residential dwelling units per acre or greater. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. Electric vehicle charging stations; requirement for certain developments. Provides that any locality may by ordinance require electric
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/22/2023
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Affordable housing; amending local zoning ordinance authority. [HB-2047]
Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts such authorization to counties with an urban county executive form of government or county manager plan of government and certain other localities. The bill also requires the comprehensive plan of each locality to show the connection between affordable housing and other needs of its residents, such as
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Income tax, state; distribution of revenues to localities, funds for local school construction. [HB-2176]
Individual income tax; distribution of revenues; local school construction. Requires distribution of five percent of the individual income tax revenues collected from residents of a locality to be distributed to that locality. The bill requires such funds to be used for school construction or renovation purposes and to be repaid to the state if used for any other purpose. The bill provides that a locality shall be required to maintain its level of expenditure for public school purposes as a condition of receiving the income tax revenues; however,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles
Left In Finance on 02/07/2023