VA HB1456

Establishes the Virginia Government Efficiency and Accountability Act, creating permanent statutory requirements for all executive branch agencies to submit annual cost reduction reports by October 1 identifying savings opportunities across housing, healthcare, energy, education, childcare, and regulatory burdens

Creates the Interagency Health Financing Task Force within the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop unified healthcare financing strategy, review managed care organization performance against established benchmarks, and prepare contingency plans for 10%, 25%, and 50% federal funding reductions to Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs

Establishes the Commission on Unlocking Housing Production and mandates comprehensive review of housing regulations, with automatic 18-month sunset provisions for regulations identified as barriers to housing production unless agencies demonstrate continued necessity

Creates the Joint Subcommittee on Government Efficiency with legislative oversight authority and enforcement mechanisms, including withholding 2% of administrative appropriations from non-compliant agencies until reporting requirements are certified as met

Codifies efficiency initiatives from Governor Spanberger's Executive Orders 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9 (2026) into permanent law, requiring technology consolidation reviews, real property management assessments, procurement reform, and centralized data transparency through the Chief Data Officer