republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2128.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Derelict buildings; expands authority of localities to impose civil penalties.	Derelict buildings; civil penalties. Expands the authority of localities to impose civil penalties not exceeding $500 per month on the owners of certain derelict buildings to include non-residential property. Current law limits such civil penalties to residential property.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2128	Virginia HB 2128 (2025)	bill		enacted	Wendell S. Walker	3	24	6	2025-01-07	2025-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/27f8f770-85b2-40dd-9238-bcf986724018	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2128	b6ca126dce351f73afc6730dfabee1af31b8ede804bea9133405117de7ae1a3e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2128 (2025) — Derelict buildings; expands authority of localities to impose civil penalties.

Derelict buildings; civil penalties. Expands the authority of localities to impose civil penalties not exceeding $500 per month on the owners of certain derelict buildings to include non-residential property. Current law limits such civil penalties to residential property.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (86-Y 11-N) — 86–11 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wendell S. Walker — primary (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100570D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-17 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-22 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-23 Read third time and passed House (86-Y 11-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-24 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2128ER) passage
• 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 61 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-18 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27f8f770-85b2-40dd-9238-bcf986724018. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).