republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-74.md

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Bill	Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority.	Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts such authorization to counties with an urban county executive form of government or county manager plan of government and certain other localities. In addition to optional increases in density, the bill provides that such program may include certain additional implementation measures including lot size reductions and accessory housing unit allowances. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027, and is identical to HB 867.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	SB 74	Virginia SB 74 (2026)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	7	42	9	2025-12-18	2026-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6c5d6d97-b744-499b-aa4a-691338272049	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB74	3556903413ceefd0dd2f0a3d4c32b24c3a2389bbd67a5c7d66f37ee2034584e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 74 (2026) — Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority.

Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts such authorization to counties with an urban county executive form of government or county manager plan of government and certain other localities. In addition to optional increases in density, the bill provides that such program may include certain additional implementation measures including lot size reductions and accessory housing unit allowances. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027, and is identical to HB 867.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Counties, Cities and Towns Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Local Government Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
• Accede Conference Committee R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Adopt Conference Committee Report R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government with amendments — 8–7 (pass) · upper
• Concur House Substitute R — 0–39 (fail) · upper
• H VOTE: — 65–33 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute — 16–5 (pass) · lower
• H VOTE: — 65–32 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Kannan Srinivasan — cosponsor (person)
• Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-12-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100873D filing, introduction
• 2025-12-18 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2026-02-02 Senate committee amendments offered
• 2026-02-02 Reported from Local Government with amendments (8-Y 7-N) 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 Local Government Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2026-02-04 Engrossed by Senate as amended (Voice Vote)
• 2026-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-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
• 2026-02-13 House committee offered
• 2026-02-13 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (16-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-13 Committee substitute printed 26107961D-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 (65-Y 33-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: McPike, Aird, Hackworth
• 2026-02-24 Conferees appointed by House
• 2026-02-24 House Conferees: Cousins, Askew, Morefield
• 2026-03-11 Conference Report released
• 2026-03-11 Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-12 Conference report agreed to by House (65-Y 32-N 0-A) committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-30 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-30 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB74ER) 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
• 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 436 (effective 7/1/2027) executive-signature
• 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c5d6d97-b744-499b-aa4a-691338272049. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).