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- HB 356 Impact fees; assessment, collection, and imposition of certain.
- HB 463 Farm wineries; list of usual and customary activities that will be permitted.
- HB 761 Charter; Town of Herndon.
- HB 892 Annexation; extends to 2020 temporary restriction on city authority on granting of city charters.
- HB 1534 Plastic carryout bags; retail merchant not to provide unless durable.
- HB 1564 Regional Industrial Facility Authority; provides that Wythe County may withdraw therefrom.
- HB 1573 Central Virginia Regional Transportation Authority; created.
- HB 1728 Road impact fees; allows localities to reduce or exempt fee for commercial development.
- HB 1733 Charter; County of Chesterfield.
- HB 1854 Grievance procedure; gives localities authority to use an administrative hearing officer.
- HB 1879 Government, local; alternatives to publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, etc.
- HB 1933 Urban county executive form of government; adds sexual orientation as prohibited discrimination.
- HB 1996 Grievance procedure; permits grievant to have witness present during second & third steps.
- HB 2005 Charter; City of Bristol.
- HB 2027 Derelict buildings; recycled goods.
- HB 2085 Government, local; budget shall contain statement of current & proposed total debt.
- HB 2120 Graffiti abatement; permits localities to charge property owner for cost thereof.
- HB 2125 Zoning; person to post sign notifying public of place & time of public hearing regarding property.
- HB 2208 Grass, weeds, etc.; locality may, after reasonable notice, have growth on vacant, etc. property cut.
- HB 2294 Alternative on-site sewage systems; no locality shall prohibit use thereof.
- HB 2355 Local government; publication of notices for charter changes, referenda, and public hearings, etc;
- HB 2418 Solar energy; optional provisions of subdivision ordinance.
- HB 2443 Zoning ordinances; restrictions on ABC licenses in City of Portsmouth.
- HB 2535 Arts and cultural or education districts; any locality may create.
- HB 2555 Development rights; permits Fauquier County to enact an ordinance for severance & transfer thereof.
- HB 2563 Street construction; allows locality to withhold acceptance of plat approval if street not complete.
- HB 2570 Inoperable motor vehicles; allows City of Newport News to adopt ordinance prohibiting.
- HB 2613 Cash proffers; requires localities to phase out acceptance thereof.
- HB 2641 Regional Industrial Facilities Act; allows locality to withdraw from such authority.
- HB 2662 Community development authorities; allowed to request additional taxes from locality.
- HB 2667 Central Virginia Regional Transportation Authority; created.
- SB 766 Demolition of historic structures, cemeteries and graves; civil penalty.
- SB 831 Zoning ordinances; restrictions on ABC licenses in City of Portsmouth.
- SB 849 Vacant building registration; Towns of Blacksburg and Vienna may require owner to register.
- SB 942 Charter; County of Chesterfield.