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VA HB 708

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Timely local decision on certain land use permits; incentives and penalties.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Timely local decision on certain land use permits; incentives and penalties. Requires that the average time period required for a locality to take final action to approve, approve with conditions, or deny all by-right permit applications from the date of submission of such applications to the locality shall not exceed 12 months. The bill requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct semiannual compliance reviews of each locality and to publish and transmit to the Governor and the General Assembly a report identifying each locality as compliant or noncompliant for the applicable review period. The bill provides that any locality determined by the Department to be compliant for the preceding 12-month period shall be eligible to receive a state grant sufficient to fund one full-time equivalent position within the locality's planning department. The bill further provides that if the Department determines that a locality is noncompliant during a review period, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall reduce program fund allocations from the Commonwealth Transportation Fund to any project within the boundaries of such noncompliant locality by two percent for the following fiscal year.

Introduced
2026-01-13
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-02-18 — Left in Committee Counties, Cities and Towns
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Joshua E. Thomasprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-13

    Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104992D

    filing,introduction

  2. 2026-01-13

    Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-22

    Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #3

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-01-23

    Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (5-Y 0-N)

  5. 2026-01-26

    Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB708)

  6. 2026-02-18

    Left in Committee Counties, Cities and Towns

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket

    2026-01-23 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Alex Q. Askew: yes
    • Irene Shin: not voting
    • Shelly A. Simonds: yes
    • Laura Jane Cohen: yes
    • May Nivar: yes
    • Barry D. Knight: not voting
    • Anne Ferrell Tata: yes

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Official source

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB708

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