VA Code | §58-1 | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
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| VA | HB1398 | Land preservation tax credit; unissued tax credits. Provides that, beginning with calendar year 2013, the maximum amount of land preservation tax credits that shall be issued to taxpayers shall be $100 million. However, the $100 million shall continu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Signed by President as reenrolled |
| VA | SB851 | Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Reinstates the authority of Arlington County, which expired pursuant to a January 1, 2012, sunset date, to impose an additional transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed one-fourth of one percent. The ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB2048 | Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756) |
| VA | HB2047 | Long-term health care insurance tax credit. Repeals the long-term health care insurance tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014. The bill would not repeal the income tax deduction for long-term health care insurance premium... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB1824 | Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Extends the tax credit beginning in 2013 to growers or producers of (i) wheat, grains, fruits, nuts, crops; (ii) tobacco, nursery, or floral products; (iii) forestry products excluding raw wood fiber or wood ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| VA | HB2005 | Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund. Renames the Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund to the Virginia Housing Trust Fund and codifies language in the latest appropriation act in which $7 million was appropriated to the Fund. The bill p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0754) |
| VA | SB1009 | Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credits. Makes several changes to the requirements that a neighborhood organization must meet in order for a proposal to be approved under the Neighborhood Assistance Act tax credit program. In order to be approved for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled |
| VA | SB1117 | Watercraft titling certificates; adoption of uniform act; penalty. Repeals Virginia's existing watercraft titling law and enacts in its place the Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act as adopted in 2011 by the National Conference of Commission... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| VA | SB1270 | Marina operators to file lists of boat owners. Includes state and local agencies among certain operators of marinas or boat storage places that must file with the commissioner of the revenue a list of boat owners and the name and number of the boats ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB1279 | Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| VA | HB2313 | Revenues and appropriations primarily for transportation. Makes several changes to the revenues collected by the Commonwealth, and the distribution of such revenues, primarily for the benefit of transportation. The changes are as follows: The bill ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | SB1225 | Entitlement to sales and use tax revenues; City of Fredericksburg. Adds the City of Fredericksburg to the list of localities that are permitted to retain sales and use tax revenue generated within a public facility to pay off bonds issued for the con... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| VA | HB1996 | Tax credits for donations to nonprofits providing assistance to low-income families. Makes several changes to the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit and Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits programs including (i) allowing tax credits fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0716) |
| VA | SB1227 | Tax credits for donations to nonprofits providing assistance to low-income families. Makes several changes to the Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit and Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits programs including (i) allowing tax credits fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| VA | SB799 | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Permits Goochland County to adopt certain variations in administering the special valuation of real property for land preservation for real property in service districts created after July 1... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| VA | SB1241 | Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency. Advances the conformity with the federal tax code from December 31, 2011, to January 2, 2013, and restores conformity with the federal earned income tax credit. The bill contains an eme... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) |
| VA | SB918 | Local coal severance taxes. Establishes gross receipts for purposes of the local coal severance tax by providing that the only deduction allowed from gross receipts is for non-local transportation and processing costs of coal. The bill establishes a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618) |
| VA | HB1783 | Tax-paid contraband cigarettes; penalties. Increases the penalty for possession with intent to distribute more than 25 but fewer than 500 cartons of tax-paid cigarettes by a person other than an authorized holder from a Class 2 to a Class 1 misdemean... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567) |
| VA | HB1785 | Sales and use tax revenue dedicated for public facility in Town of Wise. Adds the Town of Wise to the list of localities in which a public facility may be constructed or expanded, with the sales and use tax revenue generated in the public facility de... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| VA | SB1017 | Tax-paid contraband cigarettes; penalties. Increases the penalty for possession with intent to distribute more than 25 but fewer than 500 cartons of tax-paid cigarettes by a person other than an authorized holder from a Class 2 to a Class 1 misdemean... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) |
| VA | SB1262 | Admissions tax. Authorizes Stafford County to impose an admissions tax for attendance at entertainment venues, beginning July 1, 2014. The authority to impose the tax will expire on July 1, 2015, if no entertainment venues exist in Stafford County by... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| VA | SB1236 | Personal property tax; advertising signs. Provides that outdoor advertising signs constitute a separate class of personal property for purposes of assessment, and requires localities to tax such signs as personal property, not as real property. The b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0652) |
| VA | SB1054 | Voluntary contributions of taxpayer refunds; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Adds the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan submitted by the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an option under the Voluntary Chesapeake Bay Restoration Contribution, to the l... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| VA | HB1820 | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, transport, possession, etc.; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to sell, purchase, transport, receive, or possess 500 or more packages of unstamped cigarettes and a Class 5 felony for a second offense; under c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570) |
| VA | HB1767 | Grants for donation of machinery and equipment to certain schools; fund established. Establishes a fund for a grant program for business donations of new machinery and equipment, purchased within the last 12 months by the business, to Virginia's comm... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566) |
| VA | SB1018 | Unstamped cigarettes; sale, transport, possession, etc.; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 6 felony to sell, purchase, transport, receive, or possess 500 or more packages of unstamped cigarettes; under current law, the threshold is 3,000 or more... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0624) |
| VA | SB1140 | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Implements performance-based funding for mass transit for revenues generated above $160 million in 2014 and after. Creates the Transit Service Delivery Advisory Committee to advise the Department of Rail and Public Tr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639) |
| VA | SB1296 | Unclaimed tax credits; report. Declares a tax credit obsolete if it has not been claimed by any taxpayer during the preceding five calendar years, and prohibits the Department of Taxation from authorizing any taxpayer to claim a tax credit once it ha... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) |
| VA | HB1684 | Identity theft; penalties. Raises the punishment for identity theft where five or more persons' identifying information has been obtained, recorded, or accessed in the same transaction or occurrence from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony and raises the p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) |
| VA | SB1010 | Identity theft; penalties. Raises the punishment for identity theft where five or more persons' identifying information has been obtained, recorded, or accessed in the same transaction or occurrence from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony and raises the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) |
| VA | HB1401 | Real property tax; sale of sole dwelling for delinquent taxes. Requires that, prior to initiating judicial proceedings to sell real property because of delinquent taxes, the locality must notify the taxpayer that he has the right to request that the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334) |
| VA | SB932 | Income tax credit; landlords participating in housing choice voucher program. Reduces from $450,000 to $250,000 the amount of income tax credits that may be issued each fiscal year by the Department of Housing and Community Development to landlords p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0374) |
| VA | SB980 | Transient occupancy tax; Dickenson County. Adds Dickenson County to the list of counties that may impose a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent, rather than the two percent rate available to all counties. Any revenue attributable to any... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) |
| VA | SB1092 | Cigarette taxes; certain bond or irrevocable letter of credit requirements. Provides that the bond or irrevocable letter of credit required to be filed by a wholesale dealer to obtain cigarette tax stamps without payment of the cigarette tax be in a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389) |
| VA | SB1220 | Virginia College Savings Plan; deposit of income tax refunds. Permits taxpayers to direct the Department of Taxation to deposit all or any part of an income tax refund into their Virginia College Savings Plan accounts. The provisions of the bill shal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0402) |
| VA | SB1133 | Tangible personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers. Creates a separate classification, for purposes of permitting localities to set a lower personal property tax rate, on computer equipment and peripherals used in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393) |
| VA | HB2178 | Charitable gaming; network bingo. Authorizes the conduct of a new charitable game known as network bingo. The bill sets out the terms and conditions under which network bingo may be conducted, provides for the licensing of network bingo providers, an... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0350) |
| VA | SB1093 | Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; adoption. Codifies the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, which authorizes the creation of a transfer on death deed, which, when properly executed and recorded, passes title directly to named ben... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390) |
| VA | SB720 | Transient occupancy tax; Grayson County. Adds Grayson County to the list of counties authorized to levy a transient occupancy tax not to exceed five percent. The bill makes technical revisions. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0319) |
| VA | SB766 | Sales and use tax exemption for hurricane preparedness equipment; eligible equipment. Adds gas-powered chain saws with a selling price of $350 or less and chain saw accessories to the list of equipment eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0325) |
| VA | HB1553 | Real property tax assessment; affordable housing. Modifies the special means of assessing the value of affordable rental housing units by permitting a taxpayer who owns certain multiple units and has expenses that are common to two or more units to m... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249) |
| VA | HB1699 | Tangible personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers. Creates a separate classification, for purposes of permitting localities to set a lower personal property tax rate, on computer equipment and peripherals used in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) |
| VA | HB1697 | Real property tax; special valuation for land preservation. Makes it optional for localities to impose roll-back taxes when the owner of real property that qualifies for special land use valuation has the property rezoned for a more intensive use. Un... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269) |
| VA | HB2100 | Local coal severance taxes. Establishes gross receipts for purposes of the local coal severance tax by providing that the only deduction allowed from gross receipts is for non-local transportation and processing costs of coal. The bill establishes a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0305) |
| VA | HB2219 | Cigarette taxes; certain bond or irrevocable letter of credit requirements. Provides that the bond or irrevocable letter of credit required to be filed by a wholesale dealer to obtain cigarette tax stamps without payment of the cigarette tax be in a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311) |
| VA | HB1982 | Local tax bills. Permits treasurers to convey, with the consent of the taxpayer, any tax bill by permitting the taxpayer to access his tax bill online from a database on the treasurer's website. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| VA | HB1923 | Worker retraining tax credit; increase in credit amount. Increases the worker retraining tax credit for worker retraining courses taken by employees at private schools from a maximum of $100 per year per employee to $200 per year per employee or $300... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294) |
| VA | HB1872 | Online investments; eligible for state tax credits. Specifies that investments transacted via an online general solicitation, online broker, or a funding portal shall be eligible for state tax credits, so long as the investment otherwise meets all re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0289) |
| VA | HB1860 | Personal property tax; advertising signs. Provides that outdoor advertising signs constitute a separate class of personal property for purposes of assessment, and requires localities to tax such signs as personal property, not as real property. The ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287) |
| VA | HB2110 | Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund; construction of natural gas service lines. Allows a locality in the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority to apply a portion of its Coal and Gas Road Improvement Fund tax revenue collected from the seve... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
