HB 549 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Overgrown vegetation; local authority.

Summary
Overgrown vegetation; local authority. Authorizesany locality within Planning District 23 or that has a populationof at least 75,000 to include provisions for cutting overgrown shrubs,trees, and other such vegetation in an ordinance requiring certainlandowners to cut the grass, weeds, and other foreign growth on certainproperty.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Feb 2020
Introduced Jan 5, 2020 Signed Feb 24, 2020
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
29
Key actions
8
Committee
6
Amendments
3
Feb 24, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 13 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 14, 2020
Introduced
Senate amendment agreed to by House (60-Y 36-N)
lower
Feb 12, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (31-Y 9-N)
upper
Feb 12, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 12, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Feb 12, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Local Government with amendment (13-Y 1-N)
upper
Feb 4, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Local Government
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (72-Y 26-N 1-A)
lower
Jan 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 24, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 3-N)
lower
Jan 17, 2020
Committee
Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use
lower
Jan 5, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
lower
Jan 5, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102310D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Jeion Ward
Jeion Ward
DDemocratic
VA
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