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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; local government, sale of property. [SJR-3]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); local government; sale of property; authority to grant perpetual easements to units of government. Allows easements on public property to be granted in perpetuity to a public body, political subdivision, or authority of the Commonwealth or to the United States or any of its departments or agencies. The requirement to advertise and publicly receive bids does not apply to easements conveyed to any such governmental entity.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Left In Privileges And Elections on 11/21/2022
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Zoning; wireless communications infrastructure, application process. [SB-255]
Zoning; wireless communications infrastructure; application process. Provides that in its consideration of certain communications infrastructure applications, a locality shall not disapprove an application if (i) the proposed new structure provides additional wireless coverage or capacity for first responders or (ii) the proposed tower is not within a four-mile radius of an existing tower that is part of the applicant's network. Additional changes in the bill provide that a locality shall not be prohibited from disapproving certain applications
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Left In Local Government on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. [SB-654]
Wetland and stream mitigation banks; location of site. Allows a permit applicant to purchase wetland and stream mitigation credits from the locality in which the site is located if no credits are available to purchase in the primary service area or no credits are available at a price below 200 percent of the current price of credits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Smoking; local regulation in outdoor parks, recreation facilities, and playgrounds. [SB-132]
Local regulation of smoking; outdoor parks, recreation facilities, and playgrounds. Allows localities to designate smoking areas within 100 feet of sports fields, recreation centers, and playgrounds in outdoor parks. The bill requires signs regarding designated smoking areas to be posted at the entrances to such parks.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Local Government on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Hallucinogens or psychoactive substances; possession, civil penalty. [HB-898]
Possession of certain naturally occurring hallucinogens or psychoactive substances; civil penalty. Provides that any person 21 years of age or older who knowingly or intentionally possesses peyote, ibogaine, psilocybin, or psilocyn shall be punished by a civil penalty of no more than $100 and such civil penalties shall be deposited into the Drug Offender Assessment and Treatment Fund. Under current law, a person who knowingly or intentionally possesses such substances is guilty of a Class 5 felony. Possession of certain naturally occurring hallucinogens
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dawn Adams
Left In Courts Of Justice on 11/22/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Monument and memorials; relocation. [HB-778]
Relocation of monument and memorials. Requires a locality that votes to remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover certain war monuments or memorials to initiate a process to gift the monument or memorial to a nonprofit organization that is most related to the mission and spirit of the monument or memorial, at the locality's expense. The bill provides that the placement of the monument or memorial shall be decided by an independent committee and that a majority vote by the committee as to the relocation of the memorial is binding on the locality
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Sponsored by: Rep. Lee Ware
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 11/22/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pulaski, Town of; regional criminal justice academy. [HB-116]
Regional criminal justice academy; Town of Pulaski. Allows the Town of Pulaski to withdraw from the Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy and send its cadets to the New River Criminal Justice Training Academy without penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marie March
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 11/22/2022
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Short-term rentals; localities' ability to restrict. [HB-1362]
Short-term rentals; localities' ability to restrict. Clarifies that short-term rentals may be operated in any locality in the absence of an ordinance pursuant to the locality's general land use and zoning authority restricting short-term rentals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Left In Local Government on 11/21/2022
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Virginia 2022 Special I
RS&UT; exemption for food purchased for human consumption & essential personal hygiene products. [HB-90]
Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides a state sales and use tax exemption beginning January 1, 2023, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill also provides, beginning February 1, 2023, an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for educational funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill. Under current law, such products are taxed at a reduced state sales
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0005) on 08/04/2022
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Virginia 2022 Special I
Facial recognition technology; redefines, local law enforcement and campus police to utilize. [HB-1339]
Facial recognition technology; local law enforcement; campus police. Redefines facial recognition technology, for the purposes of providing criteria for the lawful use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, as conducting an algorithmic comparison of images of an individual's facial features for the purposes of identification. The bill authorizes local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments to utilize facial recognition technology for certain authorized uses as defined in the bill. The bill requires that local law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Leftwich
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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Natural gas service; municipal corporations providing service, discontinuing service. [HB-1257]
Natural gas service; discontinuing service. Requires a municipal corporation to satisfy certain requirements prior to discontinuing natural gas utility services to any residential, commercial, or industrial customer. Natural gas service; discontinuing service. Requires a municipal corporation to satisfy certain requirements prior to discontinuing natural gas utility services to any residential, commercial, or industrial customer.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0017) on 08/04/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Short-term rentals; localities' ability to restrict. [HB-1362]
Short-term rentals; localities' ability to restrict. Clarifies that short-term rentals may be operated in any locality in the absence of an ordinance pursuant to the locality's general land use and zoning authority restricting short-term rentals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Continued To 2023 In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 02/28/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Tax, local; solar facility exemption. [SB-686]
Local tax; solar facility exemption. Provides that any solar facility installed (i) on the roof of a residential dwelling or a structure on an agricultural zoned property in order to serve the electricity needs of the property upon which the facility is located and (ii) pursuant to existing local regulation of solar facilities laws is declared a separate class of property and shall be classified for local taxation separately from other classifications of real or personal property. Such facilities shall be wholly exempt from state and local taxation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0496) on 04/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Football Stadium Authority; established. [HB-1353]
Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the Virginia Football Stadium Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a football stadium and related facilities. The Authority is authorized to hire independent contractors, enter contracts, acquire property, borrow money, and exercise other similar powers. The Authority is exempt from the Personnel Act and the Public Procurement Act. Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the Virginia Football Stadium Authority as a political subdivision charged with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barry Knight
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Climate resilience; locality's comprehensive plan to consider strategies to address. [SB-732]
Comprehensive plan; climate resilience. Requires a locality's comprehensive plan to consider strategies to address climate resilience in order to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to changing conditions and hazardous events.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Firearms; control of firearms by localities, concealed handgun permit exception. [SB-763]
Control of firearms by localities; concealed handgun permit exception. Provides that any local ordinance that prohibits the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for governmental purposes; (ii) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (iii) any recreation or community center facility; or (iv) any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Incorporated By Judiciary on 01/26/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Improper parking; prohibits, in Planning Dist. 8, parking of vehicle with wheels fully on curb, etc. [SB-722]
Improper parking. Authorizes localities in Planning District 8 to prohibit parking a motor vehicle with its wheels fully on the curb or with its wheels straddling the curb and provides that any motor vehicle parked on a curb is subject to a fine and may be removed by or under the direction of a law-enforcement officer or parking enforcement officer. Improper parking. Authorizes localities in Planning District 8 to prohibit parking a motor vehicle with its wheels fully on the curb or with its wheels straddling the curb and provides that any motor
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/27/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Facial recognition technology; authorized uses. [SB-741]
Facial recognition technology; authorized uses; penalty. Authorizes local law-enforcement agencies, campus police departments, and the Department of State Police (the Department) to use facial recognition technology for certain authorized uses as defined in the bill. The bill requires that the appropriate facial recognition technology be determined by the Division of Purchases and Supply and that such facial recognition technology be evaluated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and have an accuracy score of at least 98 percent
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Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0737) on 04/27/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Facial recognition technology; redefines, local law enforcement and campus police to utilize. [HB-1339]
Facial recognition technology; local law enforcement; campus police. Redefines facial recognition technology, for the purposes of providing criteria for the lawful use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, as conducting an algorithmic comparison of images of an individual's facial features for the purposes of identification. The bill authorizes local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments to utilize facial recognition technology for certain authorized uses as defined in the bill. The bill requires that local law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Leftwich
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Football Stadium Authority; established, definitions, report. [SB-727]
Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the Virginia Football Stadium Authority as a political subdivision charged with financing the construction of a football stadium and related facilities. The Authority is authorized to hire independent contractors, enter contracts, acquire property, borrow money, and exercise other similar powers. The Authority is exempt from the Personnel Act and the Public Procurement Act. The Authority may issue bonds with a maximum maturity date of 40 years. Virginia Football Stadium Authority. Establishes the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Saslaw
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022