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| Bill | Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy. | Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy. Requires cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000 to consider, beginning July 1, 2026, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan, adopting an environmental justice strategy. The bill provides that the locality's strategy shall be to identify environmental justice and fenceline communities within the jurisdiction of the local planning commission and identify objectives and policies to reduce health risks, to promote civic engagement, to prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of environmental justice and fenceline communities, as those terms are defined in the bill, and to establish baseline environmental and health conditions to characterize any disproportionate public health conditions in the identified fenceline communities. This bill is identical to HB 256. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 425 | Virginia SB 425 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 425 (2026) — Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy.
Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy. Requires cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000 to consider, beginning July 1, 2026, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan, adopting an environmental justice strategy. The bill provides that the locality's strategy shall be to identify environmental justice and fenceline communities within the jurisdiction of the local planning commission and identify objectives and policies to reduce health risks, to promote civic engagement, to prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of environmental justice and fenceline communities, as those terms are defined in the bill, and to establish baseline environmental and health conditions to characterize any disproportionate public health conditions in the identified fenceline communities. This bill is identical to HB 256.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
- Conference Report Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Counties, Cities and Towns Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Local Government Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
- Concur House Substitute R — 0–38 (fail) · upper
- H VOTE: — 63–34 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute — 15–6 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government with amendments — 8–5 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 63–35 (pass) · lower
- Accede Conference Committee R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Committee Report R — 21–18 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100586D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2026-01-26 Reported from Local Government with amendments (8-Y 5-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2026-01-27 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-01-27 Rules suspended
- 2026-01-27 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-01-27 Passed by for the day
- 2026-01-28 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-01-28 Local Government Amendments agreed to
amendment-passage - 2026-01-28 Local Government Amendments agreed to
amendment-passage - 2026-01-28 Engrossed by Senate as amended (Voice Vote)
- 2026-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-04 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-04 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-04 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-02-13 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (15-Y 6-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-13 House committee offered
- 2026-02-13 Committee substitute printed 26107960D-H1
substitution - 2026-02-15 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-16 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-16 committee substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-02-16 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2026-02-16 Passed House with substitute (63-Y 35-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-18 House substitute rejected by Senate
- 2026-02-19 House insisted on substitute
substitution - 2026-02-19 House requested conference committee
referral-committee - 2026-02-23 Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-23 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2026-02-23 Senate Conferees: Bagby, Aird, Stanley
- 2026-02-24 Conferees appointed by House
- 2026-02-24 House Conferees: Simonds, Clark, Kent
- 2026-03-12 Conference Report released
- 2026-03-12 Conference report agreed to by House (63-Y 34-N 0-A)
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-13 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A)
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-03-30 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-30 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB425ER)
passage - 2026-03-30 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-31 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-31 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-31 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 582 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-13 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0582)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/add64f04-70d6-4cde-9f8d-04253e87ea66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).