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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Historic preservation; filing of a historic designation application. [SB-206]
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: Sen. John Petersen
Passed By Indefinitely In Judiciary (9-y 6-n) on 02/14/2022
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Election officials, state and local; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited, etc. [HB-205]
State and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. Prohibits state and local elections officials from soliciting, accepting, using, or disposing of any moneys, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections. The bill specifically provides that it is not a violation of this prohibition to (i) operate a polling place or voter
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0697) on 04/11/2022
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Land preservation program; special assessment. [HB-199]
Land preservation program. Allows a locality, by ordinance, to provide that a parcel of real property shall not be removed from the land use program for delinquent taxes if such taxes are paid no later than December 31 of the year in which the taxes became delinquent. The bill further provides that no parcel of real property shall be removed from the land use program for delinquent taxes if (i) such taxes become delinquent during a state of emergency declared by the Governor, (ii) the treasurer determines that the emergency has caused hardship for
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0663) on 04/11/2022
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Land bank ordinances; disposition. [SB-142]
Delinquent tax lands; disposition. Authorizes localities to petition the circuit court to appoint a special commissioner to, in lieu of a sale at public auction, convey certain real estate having delinquent taxes or liens to the locality's land bank entity or an existing nonprofit entity designated by the locality to carry out the functions of a land bank entity. Currently, such real estate may be conveyed only to the locality itself. The bill also allows real estate that contains a derelict building and has delinquent taxes and liens exceeding
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0713) on 04/27/2022
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Smoke alarms; expands requirement to dwelling unit buildings. [SB-140]
Smoke alarm retrofitting; dwelling unit buildings. Expands the requirement to retrofit buildings with one or more dwelling units, hotels and motels, and rooming houses with smoke alarms without regard to the time of construction of such buildings.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Failed To Report (defeated) In Local Government (7-y 8-n) on 01/24/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Solar projects and energy storage projects; siting agreements with host localities. [HB-172]
Solar projects and energy storage projects; siting agreements with host localities. Permits a host locality in which an applicant is seeking to install a solar project or energy storage project to establish certain requirements in the siting agreement to restrict the visibility of the solar project or energy storage project from public secondary roads in order to maintain the view of the surrounding community.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/15/2022
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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
Continued To 2023 In Local Government (15-y 0-n) on 01/31/2022
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Localities; publication of notice in newspaper. [HB-167]
Publication of notice by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality has submitted a correct and timely notice request to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and such newspaper fails to publish the notice, or publishes the notice incorrectly, such locality shall be deemed to have met the appropriate notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition of a newspaper having general circulation in the locality. Publication of notice by localities. Provides that in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Margaret Ransone
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0478) on 04/11/2022
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Martinsville, City of; approval of voters before city can revert to town status, sunset provision. [HB-173]
City of Martinsville; city reversion. Requires approval from the City of Martinsville voters before the city can revert to town status. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026. City of Martinsville; city reversion. Requires approval from the City of Martinsville voters before the city can revert to town status. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0220) on 04/08/2022
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Municipal elections; provisions relating to cities with a population greater than 200,000. [SB-147]
Timing of municipal elections. Narrows the scope of existing provisions that require all municipal elections to be held in November by applying those provisions only to cities with a population greater than 200,000.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Suetterlein
Failed To Report (defeated) In Local Government (6-y 9-n) on 01/17/2022
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; local public bodies to post meeting minutes on its website. [HB-150]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; posting of Virginia Freedom of Information Act; posting of minutes; local public bodies. Requires, with certain exceptions outlined in the bill, any local public body subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to post meeting minutes on its official public government website, if any, within seven working days of final approval of the minutes. The bill provides that if a local public body does not own or maintain an official public government website, it shall make copies of all meeting
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0396) on 04/11/2022
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Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses, exclusion of evidence. [HB-122]
Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses; exclusion of evidence. Removes the provisions stating that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) with an expired registration sticker prior to the first day of the fourth month after the original expiration date; (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment; (iii) without tail lights or brake lights; (iv) without an exhaust system in good working order; (v) with certain signs, posters, stickers or decals; (vi) with objects or other equipment suspended so as to obstruct
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/15/2022
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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
Continued To 2023 In Counties, Cities And Towns By Voice Vote on 02/11/2022
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Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; removes the authority of a locality to establish. [HB-110]
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies. Removes the authority of a locality to establish a law-enforcement civilian oversight body. Under current law, law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies may (i) receive, investigate, and issue findings on complaints from civilians regarding conduct of law-enforcement officers and civilian employees; (ii) investigate and issue findings on incidents, including the use of force by a law-enforcement officer, death or serious injury to any person held in
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Sponsored by: Sen. John McGuire
Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022
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Sales tax; 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. Exempts food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products (the grocery tax) from all state, regional, and local sales taxes. The bill dedicates an amount equal to a 0.182 percent sales and use tax to cities and counties as a supplemental school payment. Such payment shall, from July 1, 2022, until July 1, 2024, be distributed based on each city and county's estimated average share of monthly distributions attributable
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022
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City reversion; disposition of police department or sheriff's department motorcycles. [SB-82]
City reversion; disposition of police department or sheriff's department motorcycles. Provides that when a city reverts to a town and the police department or sheriff's department of the former city ceases to exist, officers of the former city police department or sheriff's department shall be entitled to purchase motorcycles that previously belonged to the police department or sheriff's department at the same cost as the city's original purchase price. City reversion; disposition of police department or sheriff's department motorcycles. Provides
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Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0385) on 04/11/2022
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Firearms; control by localities of possession or carrying. [SB-74]
Control of firearms by localities. Removes the authority for a locality by ordinance to prohibit 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, or sidewalk or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public and is being used
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Judiciary (9-y 6-n) on 01/26/2022
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Real property tax; assessment cycles by counties. [SB-77]
Real property tax; reassessment cycles. Authorizes counties to conduct a general reassessment of real estate every three years if determined by majority vote of a county's board of supervisors. Current law requires counties to conduct a general reassessment every four years, with exceptions authorized for specified counties.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0362) on 04/11/2022
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Martinsville, City of; approval of voters before city can revert to town status, sunset provision. [SB-85]
City of Martinsville; city reversion; sunset. Requires approval from the City of Martinsville voters before the city can revert to town status. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026. City of Martinsville; city reversion; sunset. Requires approval from the City of Martinsville voters before the city can revert to town status. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Stanley
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0219) on 04/08/2022
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Election officials, state and local; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited, etc. [SB-80]
State and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. Prohibits state and local elections officials from soliciting, accepting, using, or disposing of any moneys, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections. The bill specifically provides that it is not a violation of this prohibition to (i) operate a polling place or voter
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0698) on 04/11/2022