republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2182.md

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Bill	DGS; surplus property, opportunity for economic development entities to purchase.	Provides that prior to offering surplus property for sale to the public, the Department of General Services (the Department) shall notify the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the property is located as well as any economic development entity for such locality of the pending disposition of such property. The bill provides that the chief administrative officer or local economic development entity shall have up to 180 days from the date of such notification to submit a proposal to the Department for the use by the locality or the local economic development entity of such property in conjunction with a bona fide economic development activity. The bill requires the Department to review such proposal and provides that if the Department determines that such proposal is viable and could benefit the Commonwealth, the Department may negotiate with the chief administrative officer or the local economic development entity for the sale of such property to the locality or economic development entity. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2182	Virginia HB 2182 (2019)	bill	Administration of Government Counties Cities and Towns	enacted	Terry L. Austin	5	20	8	2019-01-08	2019-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/f30b0ab5-a154-4ecf-86f3-23c6fc0a1477	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2182	d42af2e197b16b14db6ac1d5e91fd1568c36dfa52cafcd6f85b2ae2484fb6962	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2182 (2019) — DGS; surplus property, opportunity for economic development entities to purchase.

Provides that prior to offering surplus property for sale to the public, the Department of General Services (the Department) shall notify the chief administrative officer of the locality within which the property is located as well as any economic development entity for such locality of the pending disposition of such property. The bill provides that the chief administrative officer or local economic development entity shall have up to 180 days from the date of such notification to submit a proposal to the Department for the use by the locality or the local economic development entity of such property in conjunction with a bona fide economic development activity. The bill requires the Department to review such proposal and provides that if the Department determines that such proposal is viable and could benefit the Commonwealth, the Department may negotiate with the chief administrative officer or the local economic development entity for the sale of such property to the locality or economic development entity. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0659) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2182ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19105964D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103915D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House — 98–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 16–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
• Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — cosponsor (person)
• T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103915D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2019-01-31 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2019-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 19105964D-H1
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2182H1
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-22 Enrolled
• 2019-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-22 Signed by President
• 2019-03-04 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
• 2019-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 659 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f30b0ab5-a154-4ecf-86f3-23c6fc0a1477. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).