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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Comprehensive plan; housing development by nonprofit organizations."
+description: "Department of Housing and Community Development; affordable housing; development by nonprofit organizations. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a document describing considerations that a locality may consider when implementing an ordinance to stimulate affordable housing and strategies on property owned by a property tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Such document shall be published on the Department's website no later than December 31, 2025."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2153"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2153 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-04-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c072054-c436-4719-9f98-73286b8bb419"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2153"
+source_hash: "d39c545a6f1e0f3c02faaa08f49a0d1f55c8b3623f11eeb2352e99eae23b1e14"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 2153 (2025) — Comprehensive plan; housing development by nonprofit organizations.
+
+Department of Housing and Community Development; affordable housing; development by nonprofit organizations. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a document describing considerations that a locality may consider when implementing an ordinance to stimulate affordable housing and strategies on property owned by a property tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Such document shall be published on the Department's website no later than December 31, 2025.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015317.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1079218.PDF)
+3. **General Laws Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036043.PDF)
+4. **General Laws Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036419.PDF)
+5. **General Laws and Technology Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1049965.PDF)
+6. **Governor Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074449.PDF)
+7. **Governor's Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1073643.HTML)
+8. **Reenrolled** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1075174.PDF)
+9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064399.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N) — **21–19** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (52-Y 45-N) — **52–45** (pass) · lower
+- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N) — **35–5** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws with substitute (14-Y 7-N) — **14–7** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — **9–6** (pass) · upper
+- House concurred in Governor's recommendation (84-Y 12-N) — **84–12** (pass) · lower
+- Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 45-N) — **52–45** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) — **6–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
+- Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
+- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
+- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
+- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
+- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101682D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2153)
+- **2025-01-27** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) `substitution`
+- **2025-01-30** Reported from General Laws with substitute (14-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25106329D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-03** General Laws Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (52-Y 45-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-05** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2153)
+- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-12** Committee substitute printed 25107340D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2025-02-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2153)
+- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2025-02-18** General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House (52-Y 45-N) `substitution`
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2153ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2153)
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-24** Governor's recommendation received by House `executive-veto-line-item`
+- **2025-03-24** Governor's substitute printed (HB2153H2)
+- **2025-04-02** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (84-Y 12-N)
+- **2025-04-02** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N)
+- **2025-04-02** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-02** Reenrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-04-02** Reenrolled bill text (HB2153ER2) `enrolled`
+- **2025-04-02** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Enacted, Chapter 653 (Effective 07/01/25) `became-law`
+- **2025-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c072054-c436-4719-9f98-73286b8bb419`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+