Housing

Passed

P HB 2011

Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act. Amends the required residential property disclosure/disclaimer statement developed by the Real Estate Board by eliminating the disclaimer provisions. Under the bill, the statement will now be a disclosure statement and will contain the six minimum disclosures, thereby conforming to actual usage, requiring the buyer to use due diligence. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.
Patron - Suit

P HB 2469

Uniform Statewide Building Code; abatement of violations. Allows, as a condition of waiver of trial, admission of liability, and payment of a civil penalty, the violator and a representative of the locality to agree in writing to terms of abatement or remediation of the violation within six months after the date of payment of the civil penalty.
Patron - Marshall, D.W.

P HB 2497

Building permits for ancillary school buildings. Allows a local building official to issue an annual permit for any construction regulated by the building code.
Patron - Orrock

P HB 2789

Uniform Statewide Building Code; violations; penalty. Provides that when violations of the Building Code relating to occupancy limits, where a dwelling results in not being a safe, decent, and sanitary dwelling, in a locality where the governing body has taken action to enforce the Maintenance Code, any owner, other person, firm, or corporation convicted of such violation may be punished by increased fines and confinement in jail for not more than 10 days. Currently, any violation of the Building Code is punishable by a fine of not more than $2,500.
Patron - Hull

P HB 2885

Housing authorities; compensation of commissioners. Requires commissioners of a housing authority to receive compensation not to exceed $75 for each meeting of the authority attended by the commissioner. Currently, a commissioner does not receive compensation for his services, but is entitled to reimbursement of expenses.
Patron - Phillips

P HB 3123

Housing authorities; public hearings. Clarifies that a housing authority must hold at least one public hearing to receive the views of citizens within the area of operation of the authority before it gives final approval to either (i) its budget or (ii) any request for funding for submission to the governing body.
Patron - Alexander

P SB 735

Housing authority law; spot blight abatement; interest on liens. Gives a locality a lien on property declared a nuisance when the locality, and not the owner, abates or removes the nuisance at its expense. The bill provides that this lien shall bear interest at the legal rate of interest established in § 6.1-330.53, beginning on the date the removal or abatement is completed through the date on which the lien is paid. The bill also provides for the same interest rate for liens on property declared to be blighted.
Patron - Cuccinelli

P SB 1138

City of Norfolk; Norfolk Redevelopment Housing Authority; East Oceanview Conservation and Redevelopment Plan. Authorizes the City of Norfolk and the Norfolk Redevelopment Housing Authority to adopt a new redevelopment or conservation plan designating a redevelopment or conservation area that may include real property for acquisition located within the boundaries set forth in the previous Conservation and Redevelopment Plan for the East Ocean View Conservation and Redevelopment Project, which is scheduled to expire on July 1, 2007.
Patron - Rerras

Failed

F HB 1824

Housing authorities; use of eminent domain. Limits the power of housing authorities to acquire property within a conservation area through the use of eminent domain to those properties that are blighted.
Patron - Suit

F HB 1825

Housing Trust Fund. Provides that 50% of the annual revenue collection from the taxes and fees from the state recordation tax that are in excess of the official estimates for such taxes and fees, unless otherwise provided in the general appropriation act, shall be set apart in a permanent and perpetual fund to be known as the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.
Patron - Suit

F HB 2009

Housing Authorities Law; exercise of eminent domain authority; compensation for certain landowners. Provides that when property that is not blighted property has been acquired pursuant to a redevelopment or conservation plan by an authority through the exercise of the power of eminent domain and is subsequently sold to a private entity, then the owner of such property will receive additional compensation in the amount of 50% of the net gain realized by the authority.
Patron - Suit

F HB 2297

Uniform Statewide Building Code; Statewide Fire Prevention Code; required automatic sprinkler systems or other fire suppression systems in certain structures. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to establish standards for requiring automatic sprinkler systems or other fire suppression systems in buildings that are more than 75 feet or more than six stories high and used, in whole or in part, as (i) a residential dwelling unit designed or developed and marketed to persons aged 60 years or older or (ii) an assisted living facility licensed by the Department of Social Services. The bill also contains technical amendments.
Patron - McClellan

F HB 2414

Uniform Statewide Building Code; asbestos inspections. Provides that before a building permit may be issued for any building to be renovated or demolished, the local building department must receive certification from the owner or his agent that the affected portions of the building have been inspected for the presence of asbestos by an individual licensed to perform such inspections pursuant to § 54.1-503. Currently, such certification is required for only those buildings for which an initial building permit was issued before January 1, 1985.
Patron - Athey

F HB 2470

Uniform Statewide Building Code; abatement of violations. Grants a locality, in the event of a waiver of trial, admission of liability, and payment of a civil penalty by the violator, the ability to require abatement of a building code violation within a prescribed six-month time period.
Patron - Marshall, D.W.

F HB 2554

Statewide Building Code; emergency communication equipment. Requires all new commercial, industrial, institutional, and multifamily buildings to be constructed or equipped so that emergency public safety personnel may send and receive emergency communications from within the building. Currently, the Board of Housing and Community Development is directed to promulgate regulations as part of the Statewide Building Code to require that commercial, industrial, and multifamily structures be so designed or equipped.
Patron - Ebbin

F HB 2639

Redevelopment and Housing Authority. Provides that at least 75% of the commissioners of a Redevelopment and Housing Authority shall be persons who are not members of a local governing body.
Patron - Gear

F HB 2743

Department of Housing and Community Development; rental assistance pilot project. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a three-year rental assistance pilot project, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Housing Commission.
Patron - Englin

F HB 2744

Fair housing law; unlawful discriminatory housing practice. Adds source of income to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill defines source of income as any lawful income used by a person to meet his obligation to pay for the purchase or lease of a dwelling, including payment with (i) federal funds received pursuant to public housing or Section 8 programs of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, (ii) funds received from assistance made available under Chapter 1.2 (§ 36-55.26 et seq.) of Title 36, or (iii) proceeds from a bequest, life insurance policy, annuity, or other like source. The bill contains technical amendments.
Patron - Englin

F SB 846

Uniform Statewide Building Code; adoption by localities of residential rental inspection districts. Requires localities to adopt an ordinance establishing a rental inspection district or districts that encompass any area of the locality where 30% or more of the available residential rental dwelling units are located in structures that were built before 1950.
Patron - Lambert

F SB 966

Virginia Housing Partnership Trust Fund; dedicating unreserved general fund balances. Changes the name of the Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Trust Fund to the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. The bill provides for 10% of the annual general fund revenue collections that are in excess of the official estimates in the general appropriation act and 10% of any unreserved general fund balance at the close of each fiscal year whose reappropriation is not required in the general appropriation act to be transferred to the Fund. The bill also provides that a portion of the fund shall be used to provide matching funds to localities that have both established a local housing fund and appropriated local moneys to the fund. Under the bill, the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to establish criteria for the allocation of the matching funds to eligible localities and to annually report on the allocation of matching funds. In addition, the bill authorizes grants to be made from the Fund to support innovative housing projects and low and moderate income housing projects that are located in areas experiencing extreme shortages of such housing.
Patron - Whipple

F SB 967

Virginia Housing Trust Fund; dedicating recordation tax revenues. Changes the name of the Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Trust Fund to the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. The bill provides for $0.02 of the recordation tax to be transferred to the Fund. The bill also provides that a portion of the Fund shall be used to provide matching funds to localities that have both established a local housing fund and appropriated local moneys to the fund. Under the bill, the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to establish criteria for the allocation of the matching funds to eligible localities and to annually report on the allocation of matching funds. In addition, the bill authorizes grants to be made from the Fund to support innovative housing projects and low and moderate income housing projects that are located in areas experiencing extreme shortages of such housing.
Patron - Whipple

F SB 1053

Uniform Statewide Building Code; regulations; authority of localities; historic districts. Requires the Board of Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations as part of the Building Code that authorize a locality to require building permits for the installation of replacement siding, roofing, and windows in buildings within designated historic zoning districts within the locality.
Patron - Edwards

F SB 1411

Fees imposed on new residential development. Provides that every local building department shall assess and impose a fee for its issuance of a final certificate of occupancy for any residential building or any residential structure that is situated within a new development. Each fee shall be charged to and collected from the developer of such building. If the sales price of the residential building or structure is $200,000 or more, then the fee shall be 1.25% of such sales price or 1.25% of the actual value of the building or structure, whichever is greater. If the sales price of the residential building or structure is less than $200,000, then the fee shall be 0.75% of the sales price or 0.75% of the actual value of the building or structure, whichever is greater. The local building department shall deposit any fee collected into the Transportation Trust Fund to be used, within three years, for transportation projects in the construction district that embraces the locality served by the local building department. Several enactment clauses sunset the provisions of this bill. This bill was incorporated into SB 1268.
Patron - Cuccinelli

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