2026 SESSION

INTRODUCED

26102008D

HOUSE BILL NO. 104

Offered January 14, 2026

Prefiled January 2, 2026

A BILL to require the Department of Historic Resources to include bicentennial farms as a category under the Virginia Historic Landmarks Register.

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Patron—Ballard

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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Historic Resources (the Department) shall include bicentennial farms as a property that can be nominated for listing on the Virginia Historic Landmarks Register to honor farm families in the Commonwealth whose property has been in the same family for 200 years or more. To be eligible for such nomination, the Department shall require a farm to (i) have been owned by the same family for at least 200 consecutive years; (ii) be lived on, or actually farmed, by a descendant of the original owners; and (iii) comply with any other nomination requirements the Department deems appropriate.