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Votes at a glance: Subcommittee reports a series of public-safety, housing and consumer bills; most pass unanimously
Summary
The housing and consumer protection subcommittee reported several bills to advance, including unanimous reports on fireworks-permit and reporting bills, and a 6-2 report on a lease-termination bill after amendment.
The House General Laws Committeehousing and consumer protection subcommittee voted on multiple bills during its session. Key outcomes included unanimous or near-unanimous reports for several relatively noncontroversial measures and a split vote on a contested housing bill.
Votes and brief descriptions
- Senate Bill 1248 (Sen. Ackworth): Reported 8-0. The bill would exempt localities with a total population under 10,000 from fees for state fire marshal inspections tied to locally conducted fireworks displays. The sponsor said only one locality in Virginia had used the permit; the bill was reported with no fiscal impact cited.
- Senate Bill 934 (Sen. Craig): Reported 8-0. The bill would allow unclaimed funds in the Volunteer Firefighters and Rescue Squad Workers Service Award Program (VOSAP) to be transferred to the Virginia unclaimed property program after five years, aligning VOSAP unclaimed funds with general unclaimed-property procedures.
- Senate Bill 1282 (Sen. Durant): Reported 8-0 (conformed to House language). The bill adopts the federal National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) reporting standard as state reporting transitions to the national system; minor language conformance was adopted.
- Senate Bill 754 (Sen. Favola): Reported 6-2. The bill would add reproductive and sexual-health information to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act and create a private right of action for willful, nonconsensual release of that data; HIPAA-covered information is excluded. Supporters included Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia.
- Senate Bill 842 (Sen. Favola, Joint Commission on Health Care recommendation): Reported 8-0. The bill directs the Department of Community Development to advance broadband programs to support mobile health clinics and to leverage federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funds.
- Senate Bill 1376 (Sen. Morrison): Motion to "go by for the day" carried; the bill was laid aside for the day (no final action reported).
- Senate Bill 1055 (Sen. Rome): Reported 8-0. The bill expands interment-right protections so that identified family cemeteries located on public property owned by a locality, or held in trust for a locality, are covered; the sponsor described cases where counties had revoked burial rights on former heirs' properties.
Several measures drew little or no public opposition; others prompted short stakeholder comments. The clerk recorded reported-vote tallies on the record for each bill as indicated above. The subcommittee adjourned after reporting the day's business.
