---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential land development and construction; fee transparency, annual report."
description: "Residential land development and construction; fee transparency, annual report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1671"
citation: "Virginia HB 1671 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wyatt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f46cfa87-6e84-4063-8f99-1e150754d144"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1671"
source_hash: "ad62b6f491e667615f2ed588b87cefe9a926743599977deee40e98599d56c045"
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 1671 (2023) — Residential land development and construction; fee transparency, annual report.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0438** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0438)
2. **HB1671ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1671ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103925D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1671)

## Votes

- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wyatt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103925D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-09** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1671)
- **2023-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-20** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-27** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1671ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB1671ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 438 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0438)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f46cfa87-6e84-4063-8f99-1e150754d144`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).