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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings, local and regional public bodies. [HB-2050]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene as many all-virtual public meetings as each such public body deems acceptable in its individual remote participation meeting policy, to be adopted at least once annually by recorded vote at a public meeting. Current law limits all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Left In General Laws on 02/07/2023
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Delinquent tax lands; extends maximum duration of an installment agrmt. between locality/landlord. [HB-2110]
Delinquent tax lands. Extends the maximum duration of an installment agreement between a locality and a landowner to pay delinquent taxes from 60 to 72 months. Delinquent tax lands. Extends the maximum duration of an installment agreement between a locality and a landowner to pay delinquent taxes from 60 to 72 months.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0292) on 03/23/2023
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Short-term rental property; locality's ability to restrict property managed by a Virginia realtor. [HB-2271]
Short-term rental 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 zoning regulations; (iii) limits the number
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
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Accessory dwelling units; establishes authority & requirements for localities in development & use. [HB-2100]
Accessory dwelling units. Establishes authority and requirements for localities in the development and use of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). An ADU is defined in the bill as an independent dwelling unit on a single-family dwelling (SFD) lot with its own living, bathroom, and kitchen space. An ADU may be within or attached to an SFD or in a detached structure on a lot containing an SFD. An ADU may include, but is not limited to, basements, attics, flats, guest houses, cottages, and converted structures such as garages and sheds. The bill specifies
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Hudson
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Localities, public & private schools, higher educational institutions, & employers; face coverings. [SB-1315]
Localities, public and private schools, institutions of higher education, and employers; face coverings. Prohibits any locality, school board, division superintendent, school principal, private school, institution of higher education, or employer from adopting, implementing, or enforcing any policy, rule, or order related to COVID-19 that requires individuals to wear a face covering.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (15-y 0-n) on 02/02/2023
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GO Virginia Grants; matching funds, sunset. [HB-2220]
GO Virginia grants; matching funds; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2025, the sunset date of the provision that allows a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants. GO Virginia grants; matching funds; sunset. Extends to July 1, 2025, the sunset date of the provision that allows a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Wampler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0298) on 03/23/2023
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Unattended or immobile vehicles; removal by locality. [HB-2191]
Removal by locality of unattended or immobile vehicles. Allows for the removal of certain unattended or immobile vehicles by the locality's civil code enforcement division. Current law provides that such removal must be carried out under the direction of a law-enforcement officer or other uniformed employee of the local law-enforcement agency who specifically is authorized to do so.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0355) on 03/23/2023
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Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. [SB-1322]
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000, beginning July 1, 2023, to consider, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan, adopting a healthy communities strategy. The bill provides that the locality's strategy may include identifying major sources of pollution or hazardous waste and identifying objectives and policies to reduce health risks linked to such sources of pollution or hazardous waste sites, to promote
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/22/2023
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Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments. [HB-2119]
Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments. Authorizes any locality to authorize, by ordinance, its local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices in certain locations named in the ordinance, provided that (i) the highway has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or greater; (ii) the ordinance identifies the locality-designated speeding offense to be enforced by the photo speed monitoring device; (iii) speeding, crash, or fatality data supports the need for stronger enforcement against
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Hudson
Left In Public Safety on 02/07/2023
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Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures, resource protection areas. [HB-2214]
Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures; resource protection areas; locality to send notice. Requires the owner of residential real property located in the Commonwealth who has actual knowledge that the property contains a resource protection area established under the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act to disclose such fact to the purchaser of such property on a form provided by the Real Estate Board on its website. The bill also requires any locality that is subject to the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act to send, on a yearly
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Tran
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Parks, local; walking trails, liability for property owners. [HB-2041]
Local parks; walking trails; liability; property owners. Authorizes a locality or park authority to establish, conduct, and regulate a system of walking trails and releases from certain civil liability the owner of any property leased, licensed, or provided by easement for such use in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0131) on 03/21/2023
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Trespass; other person lawfully in charge of the property includes maint. code official of locality. [HB-2186]
Trespass; other person lawfully in charge of the property; locality. Provides that the maintenance code official of a locality is considered a person lawfully in charge of real property that has been declared a derelict building, unless the owner of such property objects, for the purpose of posting a sign or signs to prohibit any person to go upon the premises of such property without the authority of law. Trespass; other person lawfully in charge of the property; locality. Provides that the maintenance code official of a locality is considered
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0604) on 03/26/2023
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Garbage and refuse pickup and disposal services; regulation, exclusive service areas. [SB-1158]
Regulation of garbage and refuse pickup and disposal services; exclusive service areas; Planning District 8. Grants localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) authority to establish exclusive service areas and award such service areas to businesses that as of July 1, 2024, are legally engaged in the pickup and disposal of garbage, trash, or refuse, wherein service will be provided to the residents of the locality. For each such business, the locality may establish a separate service area with a customer base that approximates the number
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Passed By Indefinitely In Local Government (10-y 3-n) on 01/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. [SB-1258]
Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena. Adds entertainment arena to the definition of public facility for the purpose of allowing a locality to collect all sales tax revenues generated by transactions at such a facility, provided that a locality owns the facility, wholly or partly, and contributes to financing its construction. The bill also allows a municipality to issue bonds to finance a public facility on or after July 1, 2023, but prior to July 1, 2026. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2024 Session
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Sponsored by: Sen. Louise Lucas
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0737) on 03/27/2023
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Local government; standardization of public notice requirement for certain intended actions, report. [SB-1151]
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: Sen. John Edwards
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0506) on 03/24/2023
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Solar photovoltaic projects; extension of land use approvals, extends sunset provision. [HB-1944]
Extension of land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects. Extends to July 1, 2026, the sunset date for various local land use approvals for solar photovoltaic projects that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0499) on 03/24/2023
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Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic, sunset provision. [SB-1205]
Extension of local land use approvals. Extends from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2025, the sunset date for various local land use approvals that were valid and outstanding as of July 1, 2020. The bill also provides that its provisions shall not be construed to extend previous extensions related to the housing crisis and that any extension of approvals outstanding as of July 1, 2020, shall apply to any such approvals granted subsequent to July 1, 2020, that expire prior to July 1, 2025. This provision is declarative of existing law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0437) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program and Fund; established. [HB-1936]
Establishment of Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program and Fund. Directs the Department of State Police to establish the uniform standards for the creation of the Virginia Firearm Buy-Back Program. The bill requires the Department to (i) inform local law-enforcement agencies of the policies and procedures to be used for the Program, (ii) provide guidelines to participating local law-enforcement agencies on implementation of the Program, and (iii) establish a formula for determining any monetary incentive for a surrendered firearm. The bill clarifies
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Community revitalization fund; adds Accomack County to provisions to establish fund. [SB-1163]
Community revitalization fund; Accomack County. Adds Accomack County to existing provisions that allow the City of Richmond to establish a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration. The community revitalization fund shall be exclusively composed of appropriated local moneys.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/22/2023
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Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority, comprehensive plan. [SB-1141]
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. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024 and incorporates
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/22/2023