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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Real property taxes; rate of increase procedure. [HB-1749]
Real property taxes; rate of increase procedure. Provides that a governing body of a locality may increase the real property tax rate (i) by an amount lower than three percent through a public hearing and a majority vote of the governing body; (ii) by an amount of three percent or more, but lower than five percent, through a public hearing and a two-thirds majority vote of the governing body; and (iii) by an amount of five percent or more through holding a referendum. The bill provides that the governing body of a locality may not hold a public
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Finance on 02/07/2023
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Regional planning; climate resilience to be included as part of strategic plans. [HB-1746]
Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires planning district commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Sales and use tax, local; exemptions for food purchased for human consumption. [HB-1686]
Local sales and use tax; exemptions. Authorizes the governing board of a city or county to, by ordinance, exempt food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products from local sales and use tax.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Left In Finance on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Private activity bonds; updates notice requirements for public hearings. [SB-1061]
Private activity bonds; public hearings. Updates notice requirements for public hearings on private activity bonds throughout the Code. The bill also removes the requirement that an applicant provide the approving authority with a form specified in relevant law when requesting private activity bond financing. Private activity bonds; public hearings. Updates notice requirements for public hearings on private activity bonds throughout the Code. The bill also removes the requirement that an applicant provide the approving authority with a form specified
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0130) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Division superintendents; certain localities, qualifications. [SB-1041]
Division superintendents; certain localities; qualifications. Provides that the Board of Education shall require any candidate for division superintendent of a local school division serving a locality with a population greater than 140,000 people to have (i) a master's degree and relevant endorsements or a doctorate degree in an education-related field and (ii) at least five years of instructional, administrative, and supervisory experience in education, with no exceptions or substitutes for senior leadership experience in non-education fields.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Left In Education on 02/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Real property; additional tax on commercial and industrial property in certain localities. [HB-1710]
Additional real property tax on commercial and industrial property in certain localities. Authorizes counties and cities in Planning District 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 to impose an additional real estate tax on commercial and industrial property at a rate of up to $0.10 per $100 of assessed value. Any revenue raised from such tax would be required to be used to pay for transportation costs. Under current law, only localities within the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority or the Hampton Roads metropolitan planning area are authorized to impose such
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
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Juveniles; prohibited sales and loans of materials deemed harmful. [HB-1708]
Prohibited sales and loans of materials deemed harmful to juveniles; exceptions; repeal. Repeals the exceptions to application of the penalties for unlawfully selling, renting, or loaning to a juvenile or knowingly displaying for commercial purpose certain material that depicts sexually explicit nudity, sexual conduct, or sadomasochistic abuse and that is harmful to juveniles where such exceptions are provided in current law for (i) the purchase, distribution, exhibition, or loan of any work of art, book, magazine, or other printed or manuscript
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization & Va Tobacco Region Revolving Funds; eligibility. [HB-1692]
Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; City of Petersburg. Adds the City of Petersburg to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund and the Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund.
Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
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Sales tax revenues; entertainment arena, adds entertainment arena to definition of public facility. [HB-1741]
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, and provides that a municipality is entitled to all sales tax revenues generated by transactions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Guzman
Tabled In Appropriations (11-y 10-n) on 02/03/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic, sunset provision. [HB-1665]
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: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0436) on 03/23/2023
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Residential land development and construction; fee transparency, annual report. [HB-1671]
Residential land development and construction fee transparency; annual report. Requires localities with a population greater than 3,500 to submit an annual report no later than March 1 to the Department of Housing and Community Development containing the total fee revenue collected by the locality over the preceding calendar year in connection with the processing, reviewing, and permitting of applications for residential land development and construction activities. The bill requires the report to be submitted by the locality in accordance with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0438) on 03/23/2023
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Annexation; extension of current moratorium. [HB-1676]
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: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0422) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; local property tax exemption for property owned by low-income households. [HJR-485]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); local property tax exemption; property owned by low-income households. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a county, city, or town to provide for an exemption from local property taxation of property owned by a low-income taxpayer, as defined by law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic, sunset provision. [HB-1667]
Local land use approvals; extension of approvals to address the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. [HB-1650]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law that, if not promptly corrected, constitutes a fire hazard or serious threat to the life, health, or safety of tenants or occupants of the premises, a locality may institute an action for injunction and damages to enforce the landlord's duty to maintain the rental dwelling unit in a fit and habitable condition,
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Failed To Report And Refer To Appropriations (defeated) In General Laws (11-y 11-n) on 01/24/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Comprehensive plan; freight corridors. [HB-1674]
Comprehensive plan; freight corridors. Requires localities, when developing a transportation plan as part of the locality's comprehensive plan, to include freight corridors when designating transportation facilities that support the planned development of the locality.
Sponsored by: Rep. M. Keith Hodges
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0424) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Comprehensive plan; encouraged to consider strategies to address resilience. [HB-1634]
Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0353) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Va. Public Procurement; competitive negotiation, localities to post public notice on website. [HB-1611]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; competitive negotiation; allows localities to post public notice on appropriate websites. Removes the requirement that if a local public body elects not to publish notice of a Request for Proposal in a newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the contract is to be performed, then such local public body shall post such notice on the Department of General Services' central electronic procurement website. The bill allows local public bodies to post such notice on any appropriate website without requiring
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Sponsored by: Sen. Angelia Williams Graves
Stricken From House Calendar on 01/16/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Vacant building; annual registration. [HB-1612]
Vacant buildings; registration. Permits any city and certain towns to require, by ordinance, the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and that may endanger the public health, safety, or welfare to register such building annually. Under current law, any city and certain towns are permitted to require the owner of any building that has been vacant for at least 12 months and meets the definition of "derelict building" in relevant law to register such building annually.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Incorporated By Counties, Cities And Towns on 01/27/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Localities; penalties for violation of ordinances, civil penalties. [HB-1607]
Localities; penalties for violation of ordinances; civil penalties. Permits any locality to adopt an ordinance that establishes a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violations of ordinances. The bill provides that the civil penalty, unless elsewhere authorized, shall not exceed (i) $500 for the initial summons, (ii) $1,000 for the second violation, or (iii) $1,500 for the third or subsequent violation. The bill further provides that a locality that has charged an individual criminally under the ordinance may also issue summonses for civil penalties
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Ferrell Tata
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023