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2024 SESSION

24100185D
SENATE BILL NO. 136
Offered January 10, 2024
Prefiled January 5, 2024
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-1411.1, relating to prohibition on certain local government appointments.
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Patron-- Head
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Referred to Committee on Local Government
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-1411.1 as follows:

§ 15.2-1411.1. Certain governing body appointments prohibited.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, no local governing body shall appoint a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or commission or as a member of a board of directors of a not-for-profit organization that receives funding from the locality.