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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 HB 164. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 328 | Virginia SB 328 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 328 (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 HB 164.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — 15–6 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government — 10–4 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 25–14 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 62–35 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Russet Perry — primary (person)
- Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105310D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2026-02-02 Reported from Local Government (10-Y 4-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2026-02-03 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-03 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-03 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-04 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-04 Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-10 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-10 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-10 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-02-20 Continued to next session in Counties, Cities and Towns (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-27 Reconsidered by Counties, Cities and Towns (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-27 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (15-Y 6-N)
committee-passage - 2026-03-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-03-04 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-03-04 Passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-10 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-10 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB328ER)
passage - 2026-03-10 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-10 Signed by President
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 79 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0079)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5aaf287f-28d0-4085-8269-ff40b9b38b57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).