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type: "Bill"
title: "Local housing policy; expands the range of changes that are required."
description: "Department of Housing and Community Development; local housing policy; report to Department. Expands the range of local housing policy changes that are required to be submitted annually in a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development by any locality with a population greater than 3,500. This bill is identical to HB 356."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 665"
citation: "Virginia SB 665 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kannan Srinivasan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42962f3c-c9c1-40f9-998e-b921d4fe7c51"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB665"
source_hash: "53c20d0e750e23256d3851b0d75c74d01112431020031747ead8e175598f1423"
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 SB 665 (2026) — Local housing policy; expands the range of changes that are required.
Department of Housing and Community Development; local housing policy; report to Department. Expands the range of local housing policy changes that are required to be submitted annually in a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development by any locality with a population greater than 3,500. This bill is identical to HB 356.
## 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/1091726.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216427.PDF)
3. **General Laws Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1170689.HTML)
4. **House Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1178730.HTML)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1186631.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **96** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **105** (pass) · upper
- Concur House Amendment R — **2119** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **2118** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) — **174** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **7622** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kannan Srinivasan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104019D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Assigned GL&T sub: Housing `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-11** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-11** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-12** Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-13** Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** House committee offered
- **2026-02-19** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-24** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-24** Passed House with amendment (76-Y 22-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-26** House amendment agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-02** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB665ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 122 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0122)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42962f3c-c9c1-40f9-998e-b921d4fe7c51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).