SB 1254 Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy.

Summary
Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy. Requires cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000 to consider, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan, adopting an environmental justice strategy. The bill provides that the locality's strategy shall be to identify environmental justice and fenceline communities within the jurisdiction of the local planning commission and identify objectives and policies to reduce health risks, to promote civic engagement, and to prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of environmental justice and fenceline communities, as those terms are defined by the bill.
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Vetoed
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Vetoed Mar 24, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Enrolled · 1 edit · Feb 20, 2025
MINOR
This bill was enacted into law as SB 1254, requiring Virginia cities and counties to consider adopting environmental justice strategies in their comprehensive plans. The substantive policy content remained unchanged from introduction to enrollment, with only formatting and presentation differences between the introduced draft and the final enrolled version.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains unchanged - it applies to cities with populations over 20,000 and counties with populations over 100,000, requiring them to consider environmental justice strategies during comprehensive plan reviews.
TECHNICAL

The enrolled version includes additional spacing, line breaks, and formatting typical of official legislative documents, but contains no substantive policy changes to the original introduced text.

Floor votes · Senate Jan 21, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 12, 2025

How they voted

400
Passed
Total votes 40
Jan 21, 2025
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
19 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
26
Key actions
10
Committee
6
Apr 2, 2025
Vetoed
Senate sustained Governor's veto
upper
Apr 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 24, 2025
Vetoed
Vetoed by Governor
executive
Feb 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1254ER)
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House (50-Y 47-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (12-Y 9-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
lower
Jan 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (20-Y 19-N)
upper
Jan 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Local Government (8-Y 7-N)
upper
Jan 8, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Local Government
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Lamont Bagby
Lamont Bagby
DDemocratic
VA
14