Virginia House Bill #1122 would, if enacted, allow local governments to seize rental properties in order to bring them into compliance with the Uniform Statewide Building Code. Full text:
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1122
So, neither landlords nor tenants would have a right to be safe from search and seizure if the apartment building doesn't comply with rules someone thought up two hundred years after the building was built? And would those rules be "Agenda 21" standards for energy efficiency? And would the gentrifiers in your local government be required to resell your building to Virginians, or would they sell it to outside land-grabbers?
Bill reading requires temporary paranoia (in order to read bills effectively you have to imagine what, as laws, they'd mean to people whose intentions are much more evil than the intentions of anyone you actually know) but this year's bills are making me feel downright cranky.
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