republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-919.md

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Bill	Removal of blight; building collapse; emergency.	Allows a locality to charge owners of property the cost the locality incurred in removing or repairing a building or structure on such property if permitted under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code in the event of an emergency.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 919	Virginia SB 919 (2017)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Housing	enacted	John S. Edwards	4	32	9	2016-12-27	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/39001d28-184c-4076-80f0-63311376a08a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB919	16b1cc0bbb7db4655cb70a27939f4b5a3de62f5895f6b9ecdf28660020fde082	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 919 (2017) — Removal of blight; building collapse; emergency.

Allows a locality to charge owners of property the cost the locality incurred in removing or repairing a building or structure on such property if permitted under the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code in the event of an emergency.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB919ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102099D (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Printed as engrossed 17102099D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Local Government — 12–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Engrossment reconsidered by Senate — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• House amendments agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• John S. Edwards — primary (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-27 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102099D introduction
• 2016-12-27 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-20 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-23 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-25 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-26 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-27 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-01 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-02 Amendments by Senator Obenshain withdrawn amendment-withdrawal
• 2017-02-02 Reading of amendments waived
• 2017-02-02 Amendments by Senator Edwards agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-02-02 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB919E
• 2017-02-02 Printed as engrossed 17102099D-E
• 2017-02-06 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2017-02-07 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-14 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-14 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2017-02-14 Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 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
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 400 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39001d28-184c-4076-80f0-63311376a08a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).