Virginia House Bill 729 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 10 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-25 - Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Transit funding. Raises the existing regional transportation fee, a grantor's tax, from $0.15 per $100 to $0.20 per $100 for localities in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority that are also members of the Northern Virginia Transportation District. The bill requires half of the revenues to be deposited in the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Fund and half to be deposited in the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Capital Fund. The rate of tax in the other localities will remain at $0.15 per $100, with one-third of the revenues to be retained by the locality to be used for transportation purposes and the other two-thirds to be deposited in the Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund. The bill also raises the existing transient occupancy tax in the localities located in the Northern Virginia Transportation District from $2 to $3, with all of the revenues from the tax being used to support WMATA.

Transit funding; raises the existing regional transportation fee, grantor's tax, etc.

Del. Vivian Watts [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Del. David Bulova [D]	Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]
Del. Lee Carter [D]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Eileen Filler-Corn [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]
Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. Charniele Herring [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]
Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. David Reid [D]	Sen. Danica Roem [D]
Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]
Del. Richard Sullivan [D]	Del. Luke Torian [D]	Del. Kathy Tran [D]

2020-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) (Y: 55 N: 45 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 8-N) (Y: 14 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 8-N) (Y: 14 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 8-N) (Y: 14 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-25	Senate	Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2020-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2020-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-11	House	VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
2020-02-11	House	Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N)
2020-02-10	House	Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB729H2
2020-02-10	House	Substitute by Delegate Watts agreed to 20108032D-H2
2020-02-10	House	Committee on Finance substitute rejected 20107760D-H1
2020-02-10	House	Read second time
2020-02-10	House	Floor substitute printed 20108032D-H2 (Watts)
2020-02-07	House	Passed by for the day
2020-02-06	House	Read first time
2020-02-05	House	Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
2020-02-05	House	Committee substitute printed 20107760D-H1
2020-01-06	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2020-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101892D

HB729 (Carry Over) 2020-02-25 - Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
HB977 (Similar To) 2020-02-05 - Incorporated by Finance

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
33	2	2509	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1743	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	802.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB729
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB729+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB729H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB729H2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H10V0062+HB0729
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H10V0164+HB0729
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H10V0213+HB0729
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0892+HB0729
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0446+HB0729