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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 748: Uniform Statewide Building Code; stakeholder group to evaluate temperature regulation.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 748 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on November 23, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Uniform Statewide Building Code; stakeholder group to evaluate temperature regulation. Primary sponsor: Barbara Favola (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Board of Housing and Community Development; USBC; temperature regulation. Directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to, during the 2024 Virginia Code Development Cycle, evaluate potential revisions to the Uniform Statewide Building Code to require that certain owners and operators that rent, lease, or let one or more dwelling unit, rooming unit, or guestroom to supply cooling and furnish heat to maintain certain temperatures in all habitable rooms.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Barbara FavolaPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate40

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N)
  2. Referred to Committee on Rules
  3. Read first time
  4. Placed on Calendar
  5. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB748)
  6. Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
  7. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
  8. General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
  9. Reading of substitute waived
  10. Read second time
  11. Passed by for the day
  12. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)

Showing 12 most recent of 17 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source