republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-195.md

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Bill	Uniform Statewide Building Code; Board of HCD to convene advisory group to evaluate.	Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisions to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to permit Group R-2 occupancies to be served by a single exit, provided that the building has not more than six stories above grade plane. The bill requires the stakeholder advisory group to submit its findings and recommendations to the Board and to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology no later than December 1, 2024. This bill is identical to HB 368.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 195	Virginia SB 195 (2024)	bill		enacted	Schuyler T. VanValkenburg	5	42	8	2024-01-08	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/92ce5500-08c7-454e-9c03-15d7e8e4cc42	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB195	6b525a8dc7c938eefd8e7857735469dadbf4deee0d3917bdd11e3450a6e13a97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 195 (2024) — Uniform Statewide Building Code; Board of HCD to convene advisory group to evaluate.

Board of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; report. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development (the Board) to convene a stakeholder advisory group including fire code officials to evaluate and recommend revisions to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to permit Group R-2 occupancies to be served by a single exit, provided that the building has not more than six stories above grade plane. The bill requires the stakeholder advisory group to submit its findings and recommendations to the Board and to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology no later than December 1, 2024. This bill is identical to HB 368.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0385 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108407D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104899D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24104899D-E (committee substitute) — source
5. SB195ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (19-Y 3-N) — 19–3 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) — 95–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules with amendment(s) (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104899D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB195)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-01-29 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-29 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB195E
• 2024-01-29 Printed as engrossed 24104899D-E
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB195E)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Assigned Rules sub: Studies Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Rules with amendment(s) (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (19-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-28 Committee substitute printed 24108407D-H1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB195H1)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Committee on Appropriations substitute rejected 24108407D-H1
• 2024-03-04 Committee on Rules amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-03-04 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-03-04 Passed House with amendments (96-Y 2-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-03-08 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-08 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB195ER) passage
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB195ER)
• 2024-03-08 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-09 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 385 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92ce5500-08c7-454e-9c03-15d7e8e4cc42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).