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type: "Bill"
title: "Local Foundation and Soil Management Fund."
description: "Local Foundation and Soil Management Fund. Authorizes a locality by ordinance to create a local Foundation and Soil Management Fund consisting of appropriated local moneys for the purpose of granting funds to an owner of private property or a common interest community for foundation management and soil settlement repairs and prevention on previously developed lands."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1659"
citation: "Virginia HB 1659 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rozia A. Henson, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-03"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be916408-7e0b-4aef-9a1a-be19ccd340e5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1659"
source_hash: "9b86534b6f8aa6a8c42cfa9a81b9954a5d02e2c2ece84f16d2ab856f2debd352"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1659 (2025) — Local Foundation and Soil Management Fund.
Local Foundation and Soil Management Fund. Authorizes a locality by ordinance to create a local Foundation and Soil Management Fund consisting of appropriated local moneys for the purpose of granting funds to an owner of private property or a common interest community for foundation management and soil settlement repairs and prevention on previously developed lands.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012500.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071334.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1049949.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (91-Y 5-N) — **915** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100299D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-22** Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- **2025-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-23** Read third time and passed House (91-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1659ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 123 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0123)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be916408-7e0b-4aef-9a1a-be19ccd340e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).