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type: "Bill"
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title: "Zoning appeals, board of; clarifies provisions referring to appeal costs, includes governing body."
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description: "Clarifies that provisions that currently state that appeal costs may not be awarded against the locality unless it appears to the court that the locality acted in bad faith also apply to the governing body."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1994"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1994 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gregory D. Habeeb"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-10"
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last_action: "2017-03-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae0c9195-8c73-44a6-9574-1f847afbf75f"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1994"
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source_hash: "169f2dad6acbd669262d6ea3168cd4f2786eb8f7d6a94a2a85d2189818245862"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1994 (2017) — Zoning appeals, board of; clarifies provisions referring to appeal costs, includes governing body.
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Clarifies that provisions that currently state that appeal costs may not be awarded against the locality unless it appears to the court that the locality acted in bad faith also apply to the governing body.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0661)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1994ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1994ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101886D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1994)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Local Government — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Gregory D. Habeeb — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101886D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
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- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 661 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae0c9195-8c73-44a6-9574-1f847afbf75f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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