2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

HB2289: Zoning; recovery residences.

Legislative Summary

Zoning; recovery residences. Provides that zoning ordinances for all purposes shall consider a certified recovery residence in which no more than eight individuals with substance use disorder reside, either with or without one or more resident or nonresident staff persons, as residential occupancy by a single family and that no conditions more restrictive than those imposed on residences occupied by persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption shall be imposed on such certified recovery residence. The bill provides that no clinical treatment shall take place in such recovery residence and that the recovery residence shall submit the individual name and contact information for the person responsible for the residence to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.

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Bill History

1/8/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102924D
House of Delegates
1/8/2025
Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
House of Delegates
1/14/2025
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2289)
House of Delegates
1/20/2025
Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #3
House of Delegates
1/31/2025
Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N)
House of Delegates
2/4/2025
Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
House of Delegates

Roll Call Votes

Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket (8-Y 0-N)
1/31/2025
8
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/8/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Committee
Counties, Cities and Towns(House of Delegates)

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/8/20255.9 KB
Fiscal Note/Analysis
Fiscal Note/Analysis1/14/202594.6 KB