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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. [HB-1093]
Unfunded mandates; delay of implementation. Allows a county, city, or town, in its discretion, to delay implementing an unfunded mandate until the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which any unfunded mandate became effective. The locality shall do so by ordinance that states with specificity the unfunded mandate that the locality seeks to delay implementing and the date on which the unfunded mandate shall become effective after the delay. The bill defines "unfunded mandate" as an act that imposes on a locality the responsibility of providing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores Oates
Continued To 2025 In Counties, Cities And Towns By Voice Vote on 02/09/2024
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Line of Duty Act; benefits for campus and private police officers. [HB-751]
Line of Duty Act; campus police officers; private police officers. Provides employees of contributing nonprofit private institutions of higher education, defined in the bill, and contributing private police departments, defined in the bill and including airport police officers employed by the Lynchburg Regional Airport Police Department, with the benefits granted to employees of participating employers under the Line of Duty Act. The bill clarifies that the Line of Duty Act shall not apply to any private institution of higher education or private
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Runion
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Children's advocacy centers; definitions, investigations by local departments of social services. [HB-1128]
Children's advocacy centers; definitions; investigations by local departments of social services. Replaces the term "child advocacy center" with "children's advocacy center" and defines such term. The bill provides that if it is determined during a human trafficking assessment that a forensic interview of the child is needed, such interview may be conducted by a children's advocacy center within the jurisdiction; however, if the interview cannot be completed within 14 days, the forensic interview may be conducted by a children's advocacy center
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0829) on 04/17/2024
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Local officers; removal of elected and certain appointed officers by circuit court. [HB-1149]
Removal of elected and certain appointed local officers by courts; Governor. Allows the Governor to petition the circuit court to remove from office any local elected officer or local officer who has been appointed to fill a local elective office due to certain issues related to neglect of duty or criminal convictions. Under current law, this process is initiated only by a voter petition.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aijalon Cordoza
Passed By Indefinitely In Privileges And Elections (21-y 1-n) on 02/09/2024
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Speed limits; expands authority of any locality to reduce limit to less than 25 miles per hour. [HB-1071]
Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business district or residence district to include highways within the state highway system, provided that such reduced speed limit is indicated by lawfully placed signs. The bill authorizes a locality to restore a speed limit that has been reduced pursuant to this authority and requires the locality to notify
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0842) on 05/17/2024
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Zoning ordinances; adequate public facilities. [HB-930]
Zoning ordinances; adequate public facilities. Allows a locality to determine the timing of development by considering the adequacy of public facilities when making zoning decisions. The bill provides that a locality that makes a determination of inadequate facilities may reject or defer a rezoning application based solely on that determination.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Earley
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/13/2024
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Public utilities; municipal utilities, disconnection of service, consumer protections. [HB-906]
Public utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting service to a residential customer for nonpayment of bills or fees during a state of emergency declared by the Governor and provides that such suspension lasts for 30 days after such declaration of the state of emergency. The bill suspends such electric and gas utilities from disconnecting service to a residential
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0824) on 04/17/2024
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Trees; Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), conservation during land development process. [HB-1100]
Conservation of trees during land development process. Expands current provisions that provide that certain localities in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) may, by ordinance, require conservation of trees during the land development process by making such provisions available to localities statewide.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Affordable housing; City of Richmond has authority to provide. [HB-1122]
Affordable housing; City of Richmond. Adds the City of Richmond to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Continued To 2025 In Counties, Cities And Towns By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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English ivy; local prohibition on sale, civil penalty. [HB-1167]
Local prohibition on the sale of English ivy; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the sale of English ivy, with violations punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $50 for a first violation and not to exceed $200 for a subsequent violation within 12 months.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Krizek
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. [HB-1070]
Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; powers. Provides for the Attorney General to provide legal services in civil matters upon the request of the executive director or board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority. The bill also provides for the board of the Authority to adopt policies for the procurement of goods and services and requires such policies to incorporate certain provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act. In addition, the bill (i) makes the provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act and the policies of
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Morefield
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (10-y 5-n) on 02/27/2024
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Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. [HB-721]
Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging 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 the ordinance may be required to give at least two months' written notice of a rent increase and cannot increase the rent by more than the locality's calculated allowance, described in the bill as the maximum amount a landlord can increase a tenant's rent during any 12-month period,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Committee Amendments on 02/07/2024
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Law-enforcement agencies; security camera monitoring. [HB-1162]
Security camera monitoring by law-enforcement agencies. Provides that any law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction over criminal law enforcement or regulatory violations may establish a program to allow for the monitoring or reviewing of security cameras, as defined in the bill, for the purpose of tracking and reducing crime by such law-enforcement agency. The bill requires that any law-enforcement agency establishing such program shall develop a policy for how such security cameras will be monitored and how such data from such security cameras
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Benefits consortium; governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form. [HB-1153]
Benefits consortium for localities. Authorizes the governing bodies of three or more cities, counties, or school boards to form a benefits consortium for the purpose of establishing a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. Under current law, such governing bodies or school boards are authorized to form such a benefits consortium if they comprised the membership of a multiple employer welfare arrangement as of December 31, 2014. Such a benefits consortium is required to be a nonstock corporation established to operate a benefits plan. Each member
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Garrett
Read Third Time And Defeated By House (48-y 51-n) on 02/13/2024
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Real estate contract disclosures, certain; establishment by localities prohibited. [SB-354]
Establishment by localities of certain real estate contract disclosures prohibited. Prohibits localities from establishing or enforcing a mandatory disclosure requirement for a real estate licensee, any party to a contract for the sale or listing of residential real property, or any authorized agent of such party. The bill provides that prohibited mandatory disclosures include mandatory notifications in contracts, contract amendments or addenda, advertising, other promotional materials, and subsequent deeds after the initial deed is recorded, related
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0769) on 04/08/2024
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Arrest, summons, etc.; formal and informal quotas, prohibition, civil penalty. [HB-1145]
Arrest, summons, etc., quotas; prohibition; civil penalty. Provides that any person employed by a law-enforcement agency or any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers who implements a formal or informal quota for arrests made, summonses issued, traffic stops conducted, warnings given, or commercial motor vehicle safety inspections performed is subject to a $10,000 civil penalty for each offense and if such formal or informal quota involves threats, intimidation, coercion, or modification of working conditions to subordinate officers,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Aijalon Cordoza
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Clean energy; Dept. of Energy to study barriers for local governments to purchase. [HJR-36]
Study; Department of Energy; local governments; purchases of clean energy; report. Requests the Department of Energy to study the barriers for local governments to directly purchase clean energy or to facilitate the purchase of clean energy by their constituents. In conducting its study, the Department shall consider existing ways for local governments to purchase clean energy and promote access to clean energy for their constituents, evaluate barriers and develop recommendations relating to reducing such barriers for local governments to purchase
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Sponsored by: Rep. Briana Sewell
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Data centers; sitings near parks, schools, and residential areas. [HB-1010]
Siting of data centers; parks, schools, and residential areas. Requires that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in the bill, be approved only for areas that are one-quarter mile or more from federal, state, or local parks, schools, and property zoned or used for residential use.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Green
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/13/2024
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Industrial and commercial areas; civil penalties for certain local property violations. [HB-755]
Civil penalties for certain local property violations; industrial and commercial areas. Allows localities by ordinance to charge enhanced civil penalties for certain local property violations on property that is zoned or utilized for industrial or commercial purposes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0731) on 04/08/2024
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Local government employees; expression of certain opinions protected. [HB-867]
Local government employees; expression of certain opinions protected. Provides that an employee of a locality shall not be penalized by his employer for expressing his opinion regarding a current or proposed regulation, rule, policy, position, or other action or purpose of a public body at an open meeting of such public body when such employee is speaking on his own behalf. The bill excludes any speech that is unprotected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, including speech that (i) incites violence; (ii) is obscene,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Scott
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/13/2024