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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Recordation tax; increases annual distribution to cities and counties. [SB-1161]
Distribution of recordation tax to counties and cities. Increases the annual distribution of recordation tax revenues to cities and counties from $20 million to $60 million.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 01/31/2023
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Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions, designation as emergency response. [SB-1246]
Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions; designation as emergency response agencies. Requires that ordinances or resolutions establishing an emergency medical services agency specify the geographic boundaries of the agency's primary service area within the locality. The bill also directs that emergency medical services agencies that respond to medical emergencies be a designated emergency response agency and be recognized as an integral part of the official public safety program of the locality with responsibility for providing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0459) on 03/24/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Septic systems; loans to local governments or other entities. [HB-1941]
Loans to local governments; repair or upgrade to onsite sewage disposal systems. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to provide loans from the Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund to a local government for the purpose of correcting onsite sewage disposal problems (small water facility projects) to protect or improve water quality and prevent the pollution of state waters. The bill allows loan funding for repairs or upgrades to onsite sewage disposal systems that are owned by eligible businesses, defined in relevant law, where public health
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Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0097) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
License taxes and fees, local; exemptions, blog or online website. [HB-1920]
Local license taxes and fees; exemptions; blog or online website. Prohibits a county, city, or town from imposing a license fee or levying a license tax on the privilege or right of publishing any blog or online website containing daily or regularly updated news, feature articles, advertisements, or correspondence, provided that such blog or online website employs full time at least one journalist who has a Virginia taxable income.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Finance on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Annexation; extension of current moratorium. [SB-1185]
Annexation; extension of current moratorium. Extends by eight years, from 2024 to 2032, the current moratorium on city annexations and county immunity actions. Provisions that would trigger the early expiration of the moratorium if the General Assembly fails to appropriate certain amounts for local law-enforcement expenditures are exempted through the 2030-2032 biennium.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0423) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Localities; record of legal settlement or judgment, disclosure of records. [HB-1880]
Localities; record of legal settlement or judgment; disclosure. Requires localities to retain a public record of certain legal settlements and judgments and requires the record of such amount to be subject to disclosure if requested pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Comprehensive plan; encouraged to consider strategies to address resilience. [SB-1187]
Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0354) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Primary and secondary state highway systems; reducing speed limits on highways part of system. [HB-1939]
Powers of local authorities; reducing speed limits; highways in the primary and secondary state highway systems. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to reduce to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, the speed limit of highways that are part of the primary and secondary state highway systems located in a business district or residence district within the locality's boundaries, provided that the reduced speed limit is indicated by lawfully placed signs. Current law only authorizes the governing body of a locality
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Transportation on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Law-enforcement officers; minimum qualifications, citizenship, waiver. [HB-1994]
Minimum qualifications for law-enforcement officers; citizenship; waiver. Allows individuals who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have resided in the United States for no less than 60 months and who are both eligible for and have applied for United States citizenship 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 department employing law-enforcement officers to hire,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Amendment of death certificates; county and city registrars. [HB-1819]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Stricken From Docket By Health, Welfare And Institutions (22-y 0-n) on 01/24/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Restrictive covenants; use of Loudoun County recreational property. [HB-1856]
Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the public from using property acquired by Loudoun County for recreational purposes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Restrictive covenants; limits use of property in Loudoun County for recreational purposes. [SB-1014]
Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property by general public. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the general public from using property voluntarily conveyed to Loudoun County by a nonprofit recreational association for recreational purposes. Restrictive covenants; prohibited; use of Loudoun County recreational property by general public. Invalidates any restrictive covenant that prohibits the general public from using property voluntarily conveyed to Loudoun County by a nonprofit recreational
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0642) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Single-use plastic and expanded polystyrene products; state and local prohibition. [SB-1012]
State and local prohibition on single-use plastic and expanded polystyrene products. Prohibits state agencies beginning July 1, 2024, from contracting for the purchase, sale, and distribution of (i) single-use plastic bags, cutlery, straws, or water bottles and (ii) single-use plastic food service containers and expanded polystyrene food service containers, except during a declared state of emergency. The bill directs the Department of General Services to post public notice of all prohibited goods on its public procurement website. The bill also
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Failed To Report (defeated) In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (4-y 10-n 1-a) on 01/24/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Local Stormwater Management Fund; condominiums. [SB-1091]
Local Stormwater Management Fund; condominiums. Expands the allowable uses of grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund, established under current law to grant funds to private property owners and common interest communities for certain stormwater management and erosion control projects, to include joint flooding mitigation projects of condominium owners.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0449) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Cities and certain towns; powers, increases vacant building registration fees, civil penalty. [SB-1111]
Powers of cities and certain towns; vacant building registration fees; civil penalty. Increases the maximum annual registration fee that cities and certain towns can impose on an owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and meets the definition of "derelict building" from $100 to $500. The bill increases the civil penalty for failing to pay such fee from $200 to $500 for the first violation and $2000 for any subsequent violations and increases the civil penalty for failure to register such real property in conservation and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Passed By Indefinitely In Local Government With Letter (15-y 0-n) on 01/30/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Speed limit in residence districts; local authority to reduce limit, penalty. [HB-1785]
Speed limit in residence districts; local authority; penalty. Authorizes the governing body of any city to reduce the default speed limit on any highway maintained by the city that is located in a residence district to less than 25 miles per hour unless otherwise indicated by a sign and to adopt increased penalties for operation of a motor vehicle 15 miles per hour or more above the posted speed limit in a residence district. Current law authorizes the increased penalties in the Cities of Falls Church and Manassas. The bill clarifies that the requirement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Left In Transportation on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Siting of data centers; impacts on resources, site assessment. [SB-1078]
Siting of data centers; impacts on resources; site assessment. 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 (i) will have a minimal impact on historic, agricultural, and cultural resources and (ii) will not be within one mile of a national park or state park or other historically significant site. The bill also requires that prior to any such approval, a site assessment shall be performed to examine the effect of the data center on water usage
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Passed By Indefinitely In Rules (13-y 4-n) on 02/03/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Health insurance; credits for certain local officials and employees. [HB-1789]
Health insurance credits for certain local officials and employees. Increases the amount of monthly health insurance credits received by retired constitutional officers and their employees with a minimum of 15 years of creditable service from $1.50 to $1.75 per month per year of creditable service not to exceed $52.50 per month beginning July 1, 2024. Health insurance credits for certain local officials and employees. Increases the amount of monthly health insurance credits received by retired constitutional officers and their employees with a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Israel O'Quinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0581) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. [HB-1798]
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 neighborhoods with major sources of pollution or hazardous waste and identifying objectives and policies to reduce health risks in such neighborhoods, to promote civic engagement
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
State and local employees; rights of employees, freedoms of conscience and expression. [HB-1810]
Administration of government; rights of state and local employees; freedoms of conscience and expression. Protects local government employees from being penalized by their employer for expressing their opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or other action or purpose of a public body at an open meeting of such public body during the time designated for public comment when such employees are speaking on their own behalf as members of the public. The bill exempts from such protection expressions made by state government
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Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Passed By Indefinitely In General Laws And Technology (9-y 6-n) on 02/15/2023