NVAR

Priority Issues

Read about NVAR's work on several legislative and regulatory policy goals, including current priority issues, on-going issues, standing Public Policy Positions and recent Realtor® Advocacy Wins. Make your voice heard by submitting feedback for the annual NVAR Legislative Program, submitted every spring.

Realtor® Advocacy
Wins

NAR Federal
Issues

2023-2024 NVAR Legislative Agenda

Download the 2023-2024 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

Housing Supply, Attainability & Affordability
Common Interest Communities
Property Management and Residential Landlord and Tenant Issues
Realtor® Professionalism, Education and Practice
Fair Housing
Transportation, Infrastructure, and Emergin Technologies
Standing Positions

On-Going Issues

Sign Ordinances
New Virginia Laws
Property Tax Rates

NVAR Legislative Program

Every spring, NVAR compiles legislative and regulatory policy goals for the coming year into a document called the NVAR Legislative Program.

The Legislative Program is developed over several months based on feedback given by NVAR members. The process begins in March, when NVAR committees and forums are asked to submit issues to the NVAR Public Policy Committee for consideration. Individual Realtors® may also submit issues to the committee. A task force researches these issues and recommends pertinent ones for inclusion in the Legislative Program.

Once a draft program has been developed, the Public Policy Committee reviews it and sends a final draft to NVAR’s Board of Directors for consideration. Following approval by the Board, NVAR forwards the program to the Virginia Association of Realtors® for inclusion in the statewide list of legislative priorities.

An important component of the issues we look at is your voice. If you have suggestions for items we should be looking into please email us at govaffairs@nvar.com OR fill out this quick form.

Town Hall Notes Blog

Fairfax County Bans Plastic Bags for Yard Waste

Mar 10, 2021, 15:09 PM by User Not Found

Joining several neighboring communities in the D.C. Metro Area that have banned the use of plastic bags for yard waste, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors amended the county’s Solid Waste Management ordinance to prohibit the use of plastic bags for set out and collection of yard waste.

The change took effect on Monday, March 1 and requires county residents who have curbside collection of yard waste to use reusable containers or paper yard waste bags to set out grass, leaves and brush. Although the new rule took effect March 1, the Solid Waste Management Program will be exercising enforcement discretion for a six-week period to allow time for customer notification and education on the new rule. Enforcement will begin Monday, April 19, 2021.

For more information visit the Fairfax County Public Works and Environmental Services Page

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