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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties, report. [HB-1613]
False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties; report. 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. The bill also provides that it is a Class 6 felony if such false emergency communication results in an emergency response during which and as a result of such emergency response any person suffers a serious
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Sponsored by: Sen. Angelia Williams Graves
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2023
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Localities; authorized to create business improvement and recruitment districts. [SB-956]
Localities; business improvement and recruitment districts. Authorizes any locality to create a local business improvement and recruitment district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund business improvements, business promotions, and business recruitment activities. Localities; business improvement and recruitment districts. Authorizes any locality to create a local business improvement and recruitment district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund business improvements, business promotions, and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0745) on 04/12/2023
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Single-use plastic carrier bags; local prohibition. [SB-933]
Single-use plastic carrier bags; local prohibition. Authorizes a locality to prohibit by ordinance the purchase, sale, or provision, whether free or for a cost, of any single-use plastic carrier bag that is not recyclable from grocery stores, retail stores, and convenience stores.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Failed To Report (defeated) In Local Government (6-y 9-n) on 01/30/2023
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Sales and use tax, local; exemptions for food purchased for human consumption. [SB-1008]
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. Bill DeSteph
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (10-y 5-n) on 01/18/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
C-PACE loans; residential dwellings and condominiums. [SB-949]
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 loan for the initial acquisition and installation of clean energy, resiliency, or stormwater management improvements.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Passed By Indefinitely In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 01/30/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization & Va Tobacco Region Revolving Funds; eligibility. [SB-919]
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: Sen. Joseph Morrissey
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Finance And Appropriations (16-y 0-n) on 01/25/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
False emergency communication to emergency personnel; false information, penalties, report. [HB-1572]
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: Rep. Wendell Walker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0022) on 03/16/2023
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Solid waste disposal; adds Prince Edward County to list of counties that may levy a fee. [HB-1540]
Fee for solid waste disposal; Prince Edward County. Adds Prince Edward County to the list of counties that may by ordinance, and after a public hearing, levy a fee for the (i) disposal of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in procuring, developing, maintaining, and improving the landfill and for such reserves as may be necessary for capping and closing such landfill in the future and (ii) management of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of solid waste. The bill
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Edmunds
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Rent stabilization, local; any locality may by ordinance adopt provisions. [HB-1532]
Local rent stabilization authority; civil penalty. Local rent stabilization authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt rent stabilization provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlords who are under rent stabilization may be required to give up to a two-month written notice of a rent increase and cannot increase the rent by more than the locality's rent stabilization allowance, described in the bill as the maximum amount a landlord
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Urban green space; local incentives. [HB-1510]
Local incentives for urban green space. Authorizes localities to establish programs to provide regulatory flexibility to encourage the preservation, restoration, or development of urban green space, defined in the bill. The regulatory flexibility may include (i) a reduction in permit fees or (ii) a streamlined process for the approval of permits. Local incentives for urban green space. Authorizes localities to establish programs to provide regulatory flexibility to encourage the preservation, restoration, or development of urban green space, defined
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0427) on 03/23/2023
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Traffic control device violation monitoring systems; localities in Hampton Roads may establish. [SB-861]
Traffic control device violation monitoring systems. Authorizes localities in Planning District 23, after completing an engineering safety analysis that addresses congestion, accident rates, and driver disregard for traffic control devices, to establish traffic control device violation monitoring systems, defined in the bill, imposing monetary liability on the operator of a motor vehicle for failure to comply with traffic control devices at any intersection deemed by the local governing body to be negatively impacted by traffic due to the Hampton
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0738) on 03/27/2023
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Local government; live audio or video broadcast and archive of meetings. [HB-1487]
Meetings of local governing body; live broadcast and archive. Requires localities to provide a live video broadcast of public meetings of the local governing body and to archive such broadcasts on their websites.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marie March
Read Third Time And Defeated By House (47-y 49-n) on 02/07/2023
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Vacant building; registration. [HB-1482]
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. Jeion Ward
Read Third Time And Defeated By House (requires 67 Affirmative Votes To Pass) (63-y 37-n) on 02/06/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Va. Public Procurement; competitive negotiation, localities to post public notice on website. [SB-859]
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. John Cosgrove
Passed By Indefinitely In General Laws And Technology With Letter (14-y 0-n) on 01/11/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Auditor of Public Accounts; civil penalty for local noncompliance. [HB-1476]
Auditor of Public Accounts; civil penalty for local noncompliance. Provides that localities and localities' constitutional officers shall be subject to monetary penalties for failure to comply with various deadlines for preparing local financial audit reports and submitting such reports to the Auditor of Public Accounts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marie March
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Emergency medical services agencies; ordinances or resolutions, designation as emergency response. [HB-1472]
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: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0458) on 03/24/2023
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Land use plans; zoning, notice. [HB-1473]
Land use plans; zoning; notice. Alters the notice requirements related to local government adoption of land use plans and zoning ordinances by no longer requiring the notice to contain a descriptive summary of the proposed action but continues to require the locality to identify in the notice the place or places within the locality where copies of the proposed plans, ordinances, or amendments may be examined. Furthermore, such notice must include the street address or tax map parcel number of the parcels as well as the approximate acreage subject
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Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/07/2023
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Vacant building; registration. [SB-838]
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 (i) which meets the definition of "derelict building", (ii) which meet the definition of "criminal blight", or (iii) in which a locality has determined a person is living without the authority of the owner or owners 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
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Failed To Report (defeated) In Counties, Cities And Towns (10-y 10-n) on 02/10/2023
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Individuals with disabilities; terminology. [HB-1450]
Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability" and "impairment." The bill contains technical amendments. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Disability Commission.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0148) on 03/22/2023
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Transient occupancy tax; administration. [HB-1442]
Transient occupancy tax; administration. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually publish on its website the current transient occupancy tax rates imposed in each locality. The bill also (i) requires the tax-assessing officer of a locality to administer and enforce the assessment and collection of transient occupancy taxes from accommodations intermediaries and (ii) specifies certain return filing requirements for accommodations intermediaries. Transient occupancy tax; administration. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually publish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph McNamara
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0410) on 03/23/2023