---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive plan; provision for transit-oriented development."
description: "Comprehensive plan; transit-oriented development.Adds reducing, modifying, or waiving local parking requirements orratios to the strategies that may be included when certain largerlocalities consider incorporating strategies to promote transit-orienteddevelopment in reviews of their comprehensive plans. The bill removesfrom the existing strategy of increasing development density in certainareas to reduce density in others the phrase \"to reduce density inothers.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2054"
citation: "Virginia HB 2054 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ibraheem S. Samirah"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98ca8b89-1359-4e0d-8009-c680d61dc424"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2054"
source_hash: "401a34fc8756860ff2daf957b263a6937ac9f29d43f9de34e50504c8a9a2be27"
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 2054 (2021) — Comprehensive plan; provision for transit-oriented development.

Comprehensive plan; transit-oriented development.Adds reducing, modifying, or waiving local parking requirements orratios to the strategies that may be included when certain largerlocalities consider incorporating strategies to promote transit-orienteddevelopment in reviews of their comprehensive plans. The bill removesfrom the existing strategy of increasing development density in certainareas to reduce density in others the phrase "to reduce density inothers."

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0412** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0412)
2. **HB2054ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2054ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101042D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2054)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) — **22–16** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (76-Y 24-N) — **75–24** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (7-Y 6-N) — **7–6** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ibraheem S. Samirah — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101042D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-22** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed House (76-Y 24-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-27** VOTE: Passage (76-Y 24-N)
- **2021-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Local Government (7-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed by temporarily
- **2021-02-17** Passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor-Chapter 412 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98ca8b89-1359-4e0d-8009-c680d61dc424`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).