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Leesburg staff summarizes 2024–2025 General Assembly activity; bills on local land use and revenue flagged
Summary
Town legislative staff updated the council on multiple bills in the 2025 Virginia General Assembly session—bills affecting plastic-bag revenue distribution, tree-root protection mapping, full virtual meetings for advisory bodies, speed-camera revenue allocation and shortened review timelines for land-use reviews were among those discussed.
Town legislative staff provided the council with an update on General Assembly activity during the short session and reviewed measures affecting local land-use authority, revenue distribution and administrative procedures.
Items highlighted - Bag tax revenue distribution (House Bill 1764): a repeat of last year’s bill that would require counties with a plastic bag tax to distribute some revenue back to towns using the sales-tax distribution formula. Staff said it advanced out of a Senate subcommittee and moved toward finance and appropriations.
- Tree root protection: a bill introduced on the town’s behalf to…
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