VirginiaZoning for Housing Production Pilot Program; created, report, sunset.
What it does
Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program created; affordable dwelling unit policy incentives; report. Creates the Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. To be eligible for a grant from the Program, an eligible locality, as named in the bill, is required to make a change to its zoning policies to allow for by-right development that is expected to further the goal of creating and maintaining mixed-income communities, affordable housing, and moderately priced housing, as those terms are defined in the bill.
More detail
The Department is required to establish certain guidelines for the Program no later than December 31, 2025, and to notify eligible localities of the existence and purpose of the Program no later than February 1, 2026. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028.
Where do you stand?
Choose your position
Tell your reps
Take a position to see your representatives and ways to contact them.
Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Feb 17Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)Latest
- Vote recorded Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 12Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 5Referred to Committee on General Laws and TechnologyMinor
- Feb 5Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 4Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2149)
- Vote recorded Read third time and passed House (70-Y 29-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 4Read third time and passed House (70-Y 29-N)Passed House
- Feb 3Printed as engrossed 25101607D-E
- Feb 3Engrossed by House as amended
- Feb 3General Laws Amendments agreed toMajor
- Feb 3Read second timeMinor
- Jan 31Read first timeMinor
- Jan 29Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 6-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 6-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 29Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- Jan 28Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural ResourcesMinor
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (20-Y 2-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 28Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (20-Y 2-N)Minor
- Jan 23Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 20Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer ProtectionMinor
- Jan 16Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2149)
- Jan 7Referred to Committee on General LawsMinor
- Jan 7Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101607DIntroduced
- Feb 17Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)Latest