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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Gas-powered leaf blowers; local regulation, civil penalty. [HB-1337]
Local regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. Prior to enactment of such ordinance, a public hearing is required. The ordinance may include provisions for a civil penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/15/2022
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Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; localities' revenue sharing agreements. [SB-720]
Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing agreements; facilities. Allows facilities owned by a non-authority that are utilized as part of a cooperative arrangement entered into by an authority promoting economic and workforce development to participate in localities' revenue sharing agreements.
Sponsored by: Sen. Travis Hackworth
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0230) on 04/08/2022
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Trees; replacement and conservation during development process, powers of local government. [HB-1346]
Powers of local government; trees during development process; replacement and conservation. Expands to all localities provisions that currently allow only certain localities to adopt an ordinance providing for the planting and replacement of trees during the development process and adds more flexibility for implementation and management of tree canopy banks, tree canopy credits, and tree canopy requirements. The bill changes and updates standards, reference documents, and published reference texts, expands options for localities to disburse funds
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/15/2022
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Trees; canopy credits, forest stands. [HB-1316]
Tree canopy credits; forest stands. Requires that localities that have adopted a tree canopy ordinance provide tree cover credit for high conservation value forest stands if a site developer provides a stand assessment before creating development plans. The bill also allows localities with such ordinances to provide additional credit if the pre-identified forest stands achieve environmental, ecological, and wildlife conservation objectives of the locality.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/15/2022
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Local governments; additional powers, Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs. [HB-1325]
General Powers of local governments; additional powers; Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing programs. Changes the existing authorization for local governments to finance, by ordinance, clean energy, resiliency, and stormwater management programs to authorize the financing of eligible improvements to eligible properties, as defined in the bill, under C-PACE loan programs. The bill allows localities to delegate billing, collection, and remittance of C-PACE loan payments to a third party. General Powers of local governments;
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Reid
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0402) on 04/11/2022
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Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. [HB-1276]
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000 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 shall be to identify neighborhoods with major sources of pollution or hazardous waste, to identify objectives and policies to reduce health risks in such neighborhoods, to promote civic engagement by residents of such neighborhoods,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/15/2022
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School boards; method of selection, election required. [HB-1284]
School boards; method of selection; election required. Requires election as the method of selecting the members of each school board in the Commonwealth. Current law requires such members to be appointed but permits their election under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim Taylor
Stricken From Docket By Education (22-y 0-n) on 02/07/2022
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Political subdivisions; group self-insurance pools. [HB-1268]
Local government self-insurance pools. Expands provisions related to local government self-insurance pools by providing that a local government group self-insurance pool may provide all authorized insurance coverages to (i) any separate corporation established by one or more counties, cities, towns, or school boards, as permitted by law, that is supported wholly or principally by local public funds or utilize federal funds for local community housing projects and (ii) other corporations recognized under § 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0439) on 04/11/2022
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Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; localities' revenue sharing agreements. [HB-1271]
Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing agreements; facilities. Allows facilities owned by a non-authority that are utilized as part of a cooperative arrangement entered into by an authority promoting economic and workforce development to participate in localities' revenue sharing agreements.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Morefield
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0231) on 04/08/2022
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State Corporation Commission; electric vehicle charging infrastructure & rooftop solar energy, etc. [HB-1244]
State Corporation Commission; electric vehicle charging infrastructure and rooftop solar energy collection device installation; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to evaluate by locality the availability and accessibility of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and rooftop solar energy collection device installation to residents of the Commonwealth. The Commission shall report the findings of its evaluation and analysis by December 1, 2022, to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Commerce and Energy and the Senate Committee
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcus Simon
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/15/2022
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Local officers; election and terms of mayor and city council for cities and towns. [HB-1233]
Elections; local officers; election and terms of mayor and city council for cities and towns; minimum population. Limits to localities with a population of at least 25,000 the application of the requirement that, in a city or town that imposes district-based or ward-based residency requirements for members of the city or town council, the member elected from each district or ward must be elected by the qualified voters of that district or ward and not by the locality at large.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/15/2022
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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
Continued To 2023 In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (13-y 0-n) on 02/08/2022
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Historic preservation; filing of a historic designation application. [HB-1210]
Historic preservation. Provides that the filing of a historic designation application shall stay a locality from issuing any permit to raze or demolish a proposed historic landmark, building, or structure until 30 days after the rendering of the final decision of the governing body of the locality. The bill also specifies that the affected property owner, the applicant, or any resident of the locality who provided public input on the locality's historic district plan may appeal to the circuit court for review of any final decision of the governing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Continued To 2023 In Counties, Cities And Towns By Voice Vote on 02/11/2022
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Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act; affordable housing grants. [HB-1194]
Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act; legislative intent; affordable housing grants. Authorizes an industrial development authority to make grants associated with the construction of affordable housing in order to promote safe and affordable housing in the Commonwealth and to benefit thereby the safety, health, welfare, and prosperity of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth. Industrial Development and Revenue Bond Act; legislative intent; affordable housing grants. Authorizes an industrial development authority to make grants associated with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0489) on 04/11/2022
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Marcus alert system; participation in the system is optional for localities, etc. [HB-1191]
Marcus alert system; participation. Extends the date by which localities shall establish voluntary databases to be made available to the 9-1-1 alert system and the Marcus alert system to provide relevant mental health information and emergency contact information for appropriate response to an emergency or crisis from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2023, and provides an exemption to the requirement that localities establish protocols for local law-enforcement agencies to enter into memorandums of agreement with mobile crisis response providers regarding
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Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0619) on 04/11/2022
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Transient occupancy tax; supporting documentation. [SB-634]
Transient occupancy tax; supporting documentation. Requires accommodations providers to submit certain supporting documentation, upon request by a locality, when remitting transient occupancy taxes collected.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Incorporated By Finance And Appropriations on 02/08/2022
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Tax, local; solar facility exemption, effective date. [HB-1185]
Local tax; solar facility exemption.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Read Third Time And Defeated By House (44-y 53-n) on 02/11/2022
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Recovery residences; disclosure to potential residents that residence is certified. [SB-622]
Recovery residences. Requires that all recovery residences be certified by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (the Department) and that recovery residences, as a condition of such certification, comply with any minimum square footage requirements related to beds and sleeping rooms established by the credentialing entity, which shall be no less than the square footage requirements set forth in the Uniform Statewide Building Code. The bill requires every person who operates a recovery residence to disclose to potential
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0732) on 04/27/2022
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Attorneys for the Commonwealth; compensation and collection of fees. [HB-1157]
Attorneys for the Commonwealth; compensation and collection of fees. Prohibits the Compensation Board, when determining staffing and funding levels for offices of attorneys for the Commonwealth, from (i) considering the number of charges brought or the number of convictions obtained by such attorney for the Commonwealth; (ii) relying on standards devised or recommended by the attorney for the Commonwealth, law-enforcement agencies, or professional associations representing attorneys for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officers; or (iii) using
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcus Simon
Continued To 2023 In Courts Of Justice By Voice Vote on 02/07/2022
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Composite index of local ability-to-pay; use value of real estate in certain localities. [HB-1164]
Composite index of local ability-to-pay; use value of real estate in certain localities. Requires, for the purpose of determining the state and local shares of basic aid funding, that the composite index of local ability-to-pay utilize the use value of all applicable real estate (i) devoted to agricultural use, horticultural use, forest use, and open-space use in each locality that has adopted an ordinance by which it provides for the use valuation and taxation of such real estate and (ii) used in agricultural and forestal production within an agricultural
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Runion
Left In Appropriations on 02/15/2022