republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1415.md

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Bill	Historic structures; civil penalty for demolition.	Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been designated by a governing body as a historic structure or landmark in violation of an ordinance that no such building or structure shall be razed, demolished, or moved without the approval of a review board. The bill provides that such civil penalty shall not exceed the market value of the property as determined by the assessed value of the property at the time of razing, demolition, or moving of the building or structure.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1415	Virginia HB 1415 (2024)	bill		enacted	Delores L. McQuinn	4	30	8	2024-01-17	2024-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/4110e716-e7a9-49ac-8dcb-ec9f3f9f7a7f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1415	45fad4842d7a8e5f32e6f0256a9ffa7c9dd15ec9f15b5a5dedc657978759946d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1415 (2024) — Historic structures; civil penalty for demolition.

Civil penalty for demolition of historic structures. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance establishing a civil penalty for the razing, demolition, or moving of a building or structure that is located in a historic district or that has been designated by a governing body as a historic structure or landmark in violation of an ordinance that no such building or structure shall be razed, demolished, or moved without the approval of a review board. The bill provides that such civil penalty shall not exceed the market value of the property as determined by the assessed value of the property at the time of razing, demolition, or moving of the building or structure.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0835 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1415ER (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1415ER2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Presented and ordered printed 24105076D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) — 24–15 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (62-Y 38-N) — 61–38 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government (10-Y 3-N 2-A) — 10–3 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N) — 53–44 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 24105076D introduction
• 2024-01-17 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House (54-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Reported from Local Government (10-Y 3-N 2-A) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1415ER) passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2024-04-17 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (62-Y 38-N)
• 2024-04-17 VOTE: Adoption (62-Y 38-N)
• 2024-04-17 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled bill text (HB1415ER2) enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 835 (effective 7/1/24) became-law
• 2024-04-17 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0835)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4110e716-e7a9-49ac-8dcb-ec9f3f9f7a7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).