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| Bill | Housing for local employees; grants for homeownership. | Housing for local employees; grants for homeownership and workforce housing alternatives. Eliminates the maximum amount a locality may provide (i) to employees of the locality, employees of the school board, and employees of constitutional officers for homeownership grants to purchase primary residences in the locality and (ii) to school division personnel for residential housing assistance grants to provide affordable workforce housing alternatives. The bill also eliminates the requirement that such grants adhere to the Virginia Housing and Development Authority regional sales price and household income limitation guidelines. Current law imposes a maximum grant amount of $25,000 for individual grants per employee, as well as a maximum lifetime cumulative amount of $25,000 per employee. This bill is identical to SB 328. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 164 | Virginia HB 164 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 164 (2026) — Housing for local employees; grants for homeownership.
Housing for local employees; grants for homeownership and workforce housing alternatives. Eliminates the maximum amount a locality may provide (i) to employees of the locality, employees of the school board, and employees of constitutional officers for homeownership grants to purchase primary residences in the locality and (ii) to school division personnel for residential housing assistance grants to provide affordable workforce housing alternatives. The bill also eliminates the requirement that such grants adhere to the Virginia Housing and Development Authority regional sales price and household income limitation guidelines. Current law imposes a maximum grant amount of $25,000 for individual grants per employee, as well as a maximum lifetime cumulative amount of $25,000 per employee. This bill is identical to SB 328.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Counties, Cities and Towns Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Subcommittee #2 Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) — 16–4 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 25–15 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government — 7–6 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 65–32 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Joshua E. Thomas — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
- Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102981D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-06 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-01-20 Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2026-01-22 House subcommittee offered
- 2026-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 2026-01-23 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (16-Y 4-N)
committee-passage - 2026-01-27 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-01-28 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-01-28 committee amendment agreed to
amendment-passage - 2026-01-28 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2026-01-29 Read third time and passed House (65-Y 32-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-01-30 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2026-03-02 Reported from Local Government (7-Y 6-N)
committee-passage - 2026-03-03 Rules suspended
- 2026-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-03-03 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-03-04 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-03-04 Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-11 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-11 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB164ER)
passage - 2026-03-11 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-12 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 78 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38ce0d3e-18a9-4c68-925b-b86044b9997a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).