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HB 4Affordable housing; preservation, definitions, civil penalty.

VA 20261 session

Preservation of affordable housing; definitions; civil penalty. Creates a framework for localities to preserve affordable housing by exercising a right of first refusal on publicly supported housing, defined in the bill. The bill authorizes localities to adopt an ordinance that requires an owner to accept a right of first refusal offer by the locality or qualified designee, defined in the bill, in order to preserve affordable housing for at least 15 years. The bill requires that any locality with a population greater than 3,500 adopting such an ordinance to preserve affordable housing submit an annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to existing law.

Latest action: Acts of Assembly Chapter

Sponsors (30)
Action timeline (32)
  1. · house · H4020
  2. · house · H1101
  3. · house · H1112
  4. · house · H1116
  5. · house · H1105
  6. · house · H4110
  7. · house · H4122
  8. · house · H5000
  9. · senate · S4140
  10. · senate · S1201
  11. · senate · S1212
  12. · senate · S1205
  13. · senate · S4150
  14. · senate · S4145
  15. · senate · S4160
  16. · senate · S4160
  17. · senate · S4130
  18. · senate · S4160
  19. · senate · S4130
  20. · senate · S4130
  21. · senate · S4130
  22. · senate · S5100
  23. · house · H5610
  24. · house · H5601
  25. · senate · S5620
  26. · house · H7010
  27. · G7010
  28. · house · H5620
  29. · house · H7010
  30. · G7010
  31. · G7050
  32. · G9998
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Who matters on this bill

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, state_lower VA)sponsor05
2Adele Y. McClure (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
3Atoosa R. Reaser (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
4Briana D. Sewell (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
5Debra D. Gardner (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
6Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
7Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
8Garrett McGuire (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
9Gretchen M. Bulova (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
10Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
11Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
12Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
13Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
14Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
15Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
16Kimberly Pope Adams (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
17Laura Jane Cohen (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
18Leslie Chambers Mehta (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
19Lily V. Franklin (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
20Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
21Margaret A. Franklin (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
22Mark C. Downey (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
23Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
24May Nivar (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
25Michael B. Feggans (D, state_lower VA)cosponsor01
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Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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