Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 2149: Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program; created, report, sunset.
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Plain-language summary
HB 2149 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program; created, report, sunset. Primary sponsor: Betsy Carr (Democratic). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program created; affordable dwelling unit policy incentives; report. Creates the Zoning for Housing Production Pilot Program to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. To be eligible for a grant from the Program, an eligible locality, as named in the bill, is required to make a change to its zoning policies to allow for by-right development that is expected to further the goal of creating and maintaining mixed-income communities, affordable housing, and moderately priced housing, as those terms are defined in the bill. The Department is required to establish certain guidelines for the Program no later than December 31, 2025, and to notify eligible localities of the existence and purpose of the Program no later than February 1, 2026. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2028.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betsy Carr | Primary sponsor | Democratic | House | 78 |
| Lamont Bagby | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 14 |
| Ghazala F. Hashmi | Co-sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Mamie Locke | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 23 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
- Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2149)
- Read third time and passed House (70-Y 29-N)
- Printed as engrossed 25101607D-E
- Engrossed by House as amended
- General Laws Amendments agreed to
- Read second time
- Read first time
- Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 6-N)
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