---
type: "Bill"
title: "Industrial development authorities; promoting safe and affordable housing."
description: "Industrial development authorities; housing. Allows industrial development authorities to exercise their powers with respect to facilities used primarily for single or multi-family residences in order to promote safe and affordable housing in the Commonwealth. Under current law, such powers may be exercised only in a locality where a housing authority has not been activated. The bill also grants industrial development authorities the power to issue bonds associated with the construction of affordable housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 806"
citation: "Virginia HB 806 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb04f31f-d8ad-4214-b810-41cc20c9f161"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB806"
source_hash: "b83cdf8cb0d2cfd7541a7088bd209429e56adbdea1de27b96c9cac0a0f3fc0bd"
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 806 (2026) — Industrial development authorities; promoting safe and affordable housing.

Industrial development authorities; housing. Allows industrial development authorities to exercise their powers with respect to facilities used primarily for single or multi-family residences in order to promote safe and affordable housing in the Commonwealth. Under current law, such powers may be exercised only in a locality where a housing authority has not been activated. The bill also grants industrial development authorities the power to issue bonds associated with the construction of affordable housing.

## 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/1085970.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216892.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1199916.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **19–2** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **85–12** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **27–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
- Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102283D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-13** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2026-01-30** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-05** Read third time and passed House (85-Y 12-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** Reported from Local Government (10-Y 0-N 5-A) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-03** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-03** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Passed Senate (27-Y 13-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-11** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB806ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 221 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb04f31f-d8ad-4214-b810-41cc20c9f161`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).