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| Bill | Zoning appeals, board of; clarifies provisions referring to appeal costs, includes governing body. | Clarifies that provisions that currently state that appeal costs may not be awarded against the locality unless it appears to the court that the locality acted in bad faith also apply to the governing body. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1994 | Virginia HB 1994 (2017) |
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3 | 15 | 6 | 2017-01-10 | 2017-03-20 | openstates | ocd-bill/ae0c9195-8c73-44a6-9574-1f847afbf75f | http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1994 | 169f2dad6acbd669262d6ea3168cd4f2786eb8f7d6a94a2a85d2189818245862 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 1994 (2017) — Zoning appeals, board of; clarifies provisions referring to appeal costs, includes governing body.
Clarifies that provisions that currently state that appeal costs may not be awarded against the locality unless it appears to the court that the locality acted in bad faith also apply to the governing body.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1994ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101886D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Gregory D. Habeeb — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101886D
introduction - 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-01-16 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
referral-committee - 2017-01-24 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-25 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2017-01-26 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-01-27 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2017-02-17 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-21 Enrolled
- 2017-02-21 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-21 Signed by President
- 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 661 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae0c9195-8c73-44a6-9574-1f847afbf75f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).