CCT Subcommittee #3

Thursday, January 29, 2026·2h 26m·▶ Watch / Listen

CCT Subcommittee #3 advanced two housing and civic participation bills — HB 867 (inclusionary zoning) and HB 1404 (youth on local governing bodies) — both reporting 6-0, while tabling or carrying over a dozen others including contested measures on gas-powered leaf blowers, ADUs, data center energy impacts, and outdoor shooting safety, with most continued to the 2027 session.

Key Actions

·HB 867 – Inclusionary Zoning Programs for All LocalitiesNo Vote

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Controversies

HB 881 – Whether localities need new authority to regulate gas-powered leaf blowers

Stacy Oren (Virginia Manufacturers Association) argued localities already have authority to regulate noise through noise ordinances including day and time restrictions without banning lawful equipment, while Delegate Sullivan countered in closing that localities cannot simply pass ordinances against these things and that is precisely why they need the bill.

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Notable Quotes

“This bill simply allows localities to regulate. That's a different word than ban and it's in the title, it's in the text, to regulate leaf blowers if they decide to do so. We do this all the time. We relax the Dillon rule and we say here, you can do this if you want to. It doesn't tell localities to do anything and it's not even directed at all localities.”
Delegate Sullivan, bill patron (HB 881 – gas-powered leaf blower regulation) — Delegate Sullivan was responding to opposition arguments that the bill would impose a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers and burden small businesses, by explaining that the bill merely grants localities permissive authority to regulate if they choose.

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Votes

Strike HB 1148 from the docketPassed

Report HB 177 with amendmentsPassed

Report HB 226Passed

Lay HB 771 on the tablePassed

Table HB 1149Passed

Lay HB 1154 on the tablePassed

Report HB 1404Passed

Report HB 867 as amendedPassed

Report HB 257Passed

Table HB 1328Passed

Table HB 1163Passed

Table HB 1083Passed

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TranscriptPreview

As many county cities and towns. Subcommittee number three will come to order. We have quite a large docket and not that much time. So we're going to try to get through this briefly. I will ask those that are speaking for and against the bills to be brief again. We'll have five minutes for each side and the patrons as well. Ask you to limit your remarks as best as possible while still explaining your bill. What we're going to do is start with some administrative things. We will first start by taking attendance. Madam Clerk, can you please open the row to take attendance? Thank you. We do have a quorum. All right. Again, we'll start with House Bill 1148 by Delegate Hodges. We were asked to strike this bill for the day and consider a letter. And I'll talk to the chair about the letter and the language of the letter. And striking from the docket is a recorded vote. So Madam Clerk, can you please open the roll. The vote of matter of fact. Please close roll the vote of 65 to 0 that has been stricken from the docket. We will next proceed to see…

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