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type: "Bill"
title: "Derelict buildings; expands authority of localities to impose civil penalties."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2128"
citation: "Virginia HB 2128 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendell S. Walker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27f8f770-85b2-40dd-9238-bcf986724018"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2128"
source_hash: "b6ca126dce351f73afc6730dfabee1af31b8ede804bea9133405117de7ae1a3e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015226.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071094.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050038.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (86-Y 11-N) — **8611** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27f8f770-85b2-40dd-9238-bcf986724018`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).