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| Bill | Local authority; authorized by ordinance to establish affordable housing performance grant programs. | Local authority; affordable housing performance grant programs. Allows any locality that has created an industrial development authority or economic development authority (the Authority) to establish, by ordinance, an affordable housing performance grant program. The bill outlines that such ordinance authorizes the Authority to award affordable housing performance grants to qualifying applicants. Such an ordinance must include: (i) a definition of affordable housing; (ii) grant application guidelines and processes, including an identification of the local officer that is designated to receive applications; (iii) criteria for determining whether the construction or improvement of property qualifies for the awarding of the grant; (iv) provisions that require an applicant seeking the award of a grant to acquire appropriate permits and complete the construction or improvement to develop affordable housing before such a grant will be awarded; (v) provisions that require an applicant seeking the award of a grant to present evidence demonstrating that he has filed and recorded a restrictive covenant to provide affordable housing on the property for a set term, as determined by the ordinance, provided that such term shall be no more than 30 years, on the subject qualifying property before such a grant will be awarded; and (vi) a timeline for the Authority to award grants to qualifying applicants, which may be either upon the completion of the construction or improvement of the property, or on January 1 of the year following the completion of the construction or improvement of the property. The bill also limits the total amount of any such grant to being no more than the amount equal to the increase in assessed value resulting from the construction or improvement of a property. Finally, the bill permits a locality that adopts such ordinance to impose a fee, not to exceed $250, to offset the costs of processing an application. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 352 | Virginia HB 352 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 352 (2026) — Local authority; authorized by ordinance to establish affordable housing performance grant programs.
Local authority; affordable housing performance grant programs. Allows any locality that has created an industrial development authority or economic development authority (the Authority) to establish, by ordinance, an affordable housing performance grant program. The bill outlines that such ordinance authorizes the Authority to award affordable housing performance grants to qualifying applicants. Such an ordinance must include: (i) a definition of affordable housing; (ii) grant application guidelines and processes, including an identification of the local officer that is designated to receive applications; (iii) criteria for determining whether the construction or improvement of property qualifies for the awarding of the grant; (iv) provisions that require an applicant seeking the award of a grant to acquire appropriate permits and complete the construction or improvement to develop affordable housing before such a grant will be awarded; (v) provisions that require an applicant seeking the award of a grant to present evidence demonstrating that he has filed and recorded a restrictive covenant to provide affordable housing on the property for a set term, as determined by the ordinance, provided that such term shall be no more than 30 years, on the subject qualifying property before such a grant will be awarded; and (vi) a timeline for the Authority to award grants to qualifying applicants, which may be either upon the completion of the construction or improvement of the property, or on January 1 of the year following the completion of the construction or improvement of the property. The bill also limits the total amount of any such grant to being no more than the amount equal to the increase in assessed value resulting from the construction or improvement of a property. Finally, the bill permits a locality that adopts such ordinance to impose a fee, not to exceed $250, to offset the costs of processing an application.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Passage R — 25–15 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government — 11–4 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — 19–1 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 78–21 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Joshua E. Thomas — primary (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104537D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-12 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-01-20 Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2026-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2026-01-23 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 1-N)
committee-passage - 2026-01-27 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-01-28 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2026-01-29 Read third time and passed House (78-Y 21-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 (11-Y 4-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 (HB352ER)
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 - 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 386 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c516b12-1fde-450e-8a08-54a09a70aca9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).