republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-49.md

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Bill	Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities.	Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localities. Currently, only the City of Richmond is authorized to establish such a fund. This bill is identical to HB 478 and is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 49	Virginia SB 49 (2024)	bill		enacted	Mamie E. Locke	3	22	5	2023-12-21	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/22f936f1-1379-4d25-afd6-ae50086bff60	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB49	2503d2e1814af541197733c02641613be984ce8453586161d2964228effda18c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 49 (2024) — Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities.

Community revitalization fund; expanding use for all localities. Expands the current provisions of law allowing for the establishment of a community revitalization fund for the purpose of preventing neighborhood deterioration to apply to all localities. Currently, only the City of Richmond is authorized to establish such a fund. This bill is identical to HB 478 and is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0701 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100699D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB49ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (88-Y 12-N) — 87–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100699D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-21 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-18 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed House (88-Y 12-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 12-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB49ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-28 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
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 701 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/22f936f1-1379-4d25-afd6-ae50086bff60. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).