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County attorney's office intern delivers annual 2025 law update to supervisors
Summary
A summer intern from the county attorney's office presented a summary of 2025 state budget items and bills affecting local government, including behavioral-health funding, school accessibility reviews, subdivision review changes and digital-accessibility rules. Board members praised the intern's presentation and asked staff to follow up on specific items.
The Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors received its annual summary of new and proposed state laws on July 15 in a presentation led by a summer intern in the county attorney's office.
The presentation covered a range of items in the 2025 budget and bills: behavioral-health and temporary-detention-order reimbursements to localities, measures to convert certain state facility beds to skilled nursing, changes extending workers' compensation coverage for first responders, increases to compensation for livestock and poultry killed by dogs, a mandate that school divisions review physical-accessibility challenges in public school buildings, authorization for local tree-canopy funds, and procedural changes to subdivision and administrative review processes in planning and zoning. The packet also flagged a number of bills with a "must" or "may" symbol indicating whether localities are legally required or permitted to adopt ordinances in response.
Board members thanked the presenter and praised the clarity of the materials. Supervisors asked for follow-up on items that could require local ordinance changes (for example, local code amendments related to compensation for livestock or planning commission procedures). Staff said they would provide additional details or bring draft ordinance language back to the board if needed.
The county attorney's office noted that some bills include delayed effective dates or reporting deadlines to the chairs of appropriation/finance committees; staff flagged the Nov. 1, 2025 reporting date for a DBHDS plan referenced in the packet and urged supervisors to review the packet items to determine whether local amendments are necessary.
