Counties Cities And Towns
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Transient occupancy tax; supporting documentation. [HB-7]
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: Rep. Lee Ware
Left In Finance on 02/15/2022
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Taxes, local; surplus revenues. [SB-12]
Local taxes; surplus revenues. Grants localities permissive authority to return surplus personal property tax revenues to taxpayers. Under current law, localities may return only surplus real property tax revenues.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Suetterlein
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0166) on 04/07/2022
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Underground utility facilities; Fairfax County. [SB-1385]
Underground utility facilities; Fairfax County. Removes the sunset on a pilot program allowing a locality that has adopted the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) to request an electric utility to place underground electric distribution lines as part of a transportation infrastructure improvement project and changes a number of provisions in the program including (i) expanding the scope to include electric cooperatives, telecommunications providers, cable providers, and other utilities; (ii) expanding the scope to include
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0505) on 03/31/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Library aid; former regional library system. [HB-2323]
Library aid; former regional library system. Provides that former regional library systems that receive state aid, notwithstanding a loss of regional library status due to a city reversion, shall receive such aid regardless of when a former city reverted to town status. Library aid; former regional library system. Provides that former regional library systems that receive state aid, notwithstanding a loss of regional library status due to a city reversion, shall receive such aid regardless of when a former city reverted to town status.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Edmunds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0174) on 03/18/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Solar and energy storage projects; siting agreements throughout the Commonwealth. [SB-1207]
Solar and energy storage projects; siting agreements and special exceptions throughout the Commonwealth. Expands existing provisions related to siting agreements and zoning special exceptions for solar projects located in an opportunity zone to include energy storage projects and makes the provisions statewide. The bill provides that its provisions shall not apply to any energy storage project that has received zoning and site plan approval, preliminary or otherwise, from the host locality before January 1, 2021. The bill also provides that its
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 58 (effective 7/1/21) on 03/11/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Tourism improvement districts; authorizes any locality to create. [SB-1298]
Tourism improvement districts. Authorizes any locality to create a local tourism improvement district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund tourism promotion activities and capital improvements. Under the bill, the locality is authorized to contract with a nonprofit entity to administer the activities and improvements.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0500) on 03/31/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. [HB-2291]
Law-enforcement civilian oversight bodies; deputy sheriffs. Adds a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement agencies that may be overseen by a law-enforcement civilian oversight body created by a locality and adds a nonprobationary deputy sheriff of a sheriff's office to those law-enforcement officers who are subject to such body if created by a locality. The bill provides that any disciplinary determinations made by the law-enforcement civilian oversight body on any nonprobationary deputy sheriff shall be advisory only and that if the sheriff's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Passed By Indefinitely In Judiciary (12-y 2-n 1-a) on 02/17/2021
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Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. [SB-1309]
Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adopted by the locality, and requires such grants, where practicable, to prioritize projects that include nature-based practices. Current law allows such funds to be used only for the construction, improvement, or repair of a stormwater management facility or for erosion and sediment control. Local stormwater
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0380) on 03/25/2021
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County executive form of government; local budgets. [SB-1120]
County executive form of government; local budgets. Provides that a county that has adopted the county executive form of government (Albemarle and Prince William Counties) may carry over unspent funds from year to year for multiyear capital projects and outstanding grants without having to reappropriate the funds. This bill is identical to House Bill 1949 (2021 Regular Session).
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0155) on 03/18/2021
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Compensation Board; determining staffing and salaries for an attorney for the Commonwealth. [SB-1226]
Compensation Board; determining staffing and salaries for an attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Compensation Board shall consider workload totals comprehensively, including the use of diversion programs and specialty dockets, when determining staffing and funding levels for an attorney for the Commonwealth and the office. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act. Compensation Board; determining staffing and salaries for an attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Compensation Board
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Appropriations on 03/01/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. [SB-1275]
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for salaried or volunteer emergency medical services personnel who have at least five years of service and are operating in a locality that has legally adopted a resolution declaring that it will provide one or more of such presumptions. The provisions of the bill do not apply to any individual who was diagnosed with hypertension or heart disease before July 1,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0437) on 03/30/2021
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Active military or a military spouse; prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, etc. [SB-1410]
Active military or a military spouse; prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, etc. Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person's military status, defined as a member of the uniformed services of the United States or a reserve component thereof or a spouse or other dependent of the same. The bill also prohibits terms in a rental agreement in which the tenant agrees to waive remedies or rights under the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act prior to the occurrence of a dispute between
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0478) on 03/31/2021
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Local cigarette taxes; regional cigarette tax boards. [SB-1326]
Local cigarette taxes; regional cigarette tax boards. States that it is the policy of the Commonwealth, where practical, to encourage local cigarette stamping and tax collection to be accomplished through regional cigarette tax boards, defined in the bill. The bill directs the Department of Taxation to establish a task force to develop methods for modernizing the local cigarette tax collection system and provide assistance as appropriate to localities seeking to form new regional cigarette tax boards. Local cigarette taxes; regional cigarette tax
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0061) on 03/11/2021
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Historic sites; urban county executive form of gov't. (Fairfax County), provisions in its ordinance. [SB-1457]
Preservation of historic sites. Provides that any locality utilizing the urban county executive form of government (Fairfax County) may include a provision in its historic preservation ordinance that would allow public access to an historic area, landmark, building, or structure, or land pertaining thereto, or providing that no subdivision shall occur within any historic district unless approved by the review board or, on appeal, by the governing body of the locality as being compatible with the historic nature of such area, landmarks, buildings,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0531) on 04/07/2021
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Local green banks; authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to establish. [HB-1919]
Local green banks. Authorizes a locality, by ordinance, to establish a green bank to promote the investment in clean energy technologies in its locality and provide financing for clean energy technologies, defined in the bill. The bill establishes certain powers and functions of a green bank, including developing rules and procedures, financing and providing loans for clean energy projects, and stimulating demand for renewable energy. The bill requires the green bank to be a public entity, quasi-public entity, depository bank, or nonprofit entity
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0405) on 03/30/2021
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Buckingham County; fees for disposal of solid waste. [SB-1447]
Fees for management and disposal of solid waste; Buckingham County. Adds Buckingham County to the list of counties authorized, by ordinance and after a public hearing, to levy a fee for the management of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of solid waste and to the list of counties authorized, by ordinance and after a public hearing, to levy a fee for the disposal of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in procuring, developing, maintaining, and improving the landfill
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Peake
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0063) on 03/11/2021
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Administration of blighted and derelict properties; modifies definition of "qualifying locality." [HB-1969]
Administration of blighted and derelict properties in certain localities. Modifies the definition of "qualifying locality" to include any locality with a score of 100 or higher on the fiscal stress index, as published by the Department of Housing and Community Development in July 2020. Under current law, a qualifying locality is one with a score of 107 or higher on the fiscal stress index, as published by the Department using revised data for 2017. Qualifying localities are able to (i) classify blighted and derelict properties as a separate class
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0408) on 03/30/2021
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Trees; replacement and conservation during development, effective clause. [HB-2042]
Replacement and conservation of trees during development; work group. Gives a locality the ability to exceed general requirements in its tree replacement and conservation ordinances in specific circumstances, including development that impacts stormwater permit requirements, recurrent flooding, formerly redlined areas, and comprehensive plan compliance. The bill also directs the Secretary of Natural Resources and Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to convene a stakeholder work group for the purpose of developing and providing recommendations
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0089) on 03/12/2021
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Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies, etc. [HB-2031]
Facial recognition technology; authorization of use by local law-enforcement agencies and campus police departments at public institutions of higher education. Provides that no local law-enforcement agency or campus police department shall purchase or deploy facial recognition technology, defined in the bill, unless such purchase or deployment is expressly authorized by statute. The bill prohibits a local law-enforcement agency or campus police department at a public institution of higher education currently using facial recognition technology from
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0537) on 04/07/2021
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Illegal gambling; skill games, enforcement by localities and Attorney General, civil penalty. [HB-2168]
Illegal gambling; skill games; civil penalty; enforcement by localities and Attorney General. Provides that any person who conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location is subject to a civil penalty of up to $25,000. The bill provides that the Attorney General, an attorney for the Commonwealth, or the attorney for any locality may cause an action in equity to be brought in the name of the Commonwealth or of the locality, as applicable, to enjoin the operation of a gambling
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Sponsored by: Rep. Don Scott
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0546) on 04/07/2021