HB 164 — Housing for local employees; grants for homeownership.
VA 20261 session
Housing for local employees; grants for homeownership and workforce housing alternatives. Eliminates the maximum amount a locality may provide (i) to employees of the locality, employees of the school board, and employees of constitutional officers for homeownership grants to purchase primary residences in the locality and (ii) to school division personnel for residential housing assistance grants to provide affordable workforce housing alternatives. The bill also eliminates the requirement that such grants adhere to the Virginia Housing and Development Authority regional sales price and household income limitation guidelines. Current law imposes a maximum grant amount of $25,000 for individual grants per employee, as well as a maximum lifetime cumulative amount of $25,000 per employee. This bill is identical to SB 328.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (9)
- Joshua E. Thomas (D, VA) — sponsor
- Dan I. Helmer (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Katrina Callsen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Laura Jane Cohen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michael B. Feggans (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Atoosa R. Reaser (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (31)
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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.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua E. Thomas (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Atoosa R. Reaser (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Dan I. Helmer (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Laura Jane Cohen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Michael B. Feggans (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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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