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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local housing policy; expands the range of changes that are required."
+description: "Department of Housing and Community Development; local housing policy; report to Department. Expands the range of local housing policy changes that are required to be submitted annually in a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development by any locality with a population greater than 3,500. This bill is identical to HB 356."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 665"
+citation: "Virginia SB 665 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kannan Srinivasan"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2026-01-14"
+last_action: "2026-04-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42962f3c-c9c1-40f9-998e-b921d4fe7c51"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB665"
+source_hash: "53c20d0e750e23256d3851b0d75c74d01112431020031747ead8e175598f1423"
+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 SB 665 (2026) — Local housing policy; expands the range of changes that are required.
+
+Department of Housing and Community Development; local housing policy; report to Department. Expands the range of local housing policy changes that are required to be submitted annually in a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development by any locality with a population greater than 3,500. This bill is identical to HB 356.
+
+## 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/1091726.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216427.PDF)
+3. **General Laws Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1170689.HTML)
+4. **House Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1178730.HTML)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1186631.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **9–6** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **10–5** (pass) · upper
+- Concur House Amendment R — **21–19** (pass) · upper
+- Passage R — **21–18** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) — **17–4** (pass) · lower
+- H VOTE: — **76–22** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kannan Srinivasan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104019D `filing, introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28** Assigned GL&T sub: Housing `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-04** Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
+- **2026-02-11** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-12** Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-13** Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-19** Placed on Calendar
+- **2026-02-19** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-19** House committee offered
+- **2026-02-19** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-24** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2026-02-24** Passed House with amendment (76-Y 22-N 0-A) `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** House amendment agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-03-02** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-02** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB665ER) `passage`
+- **2026-03-02** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-03-02** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 122 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42962f3c-c9c1-40f9-998e-b921d4fe7c51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+