Virginia Senate Bill 1588

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 17 2019 - 50% progression
Action: 2019-02-13 - VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (88-Y 10-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Partial exemption from real property taxes for flood Partial exemption from real property taxes for flood mitigation efforts. Codifies an amendment to Article X, Section 6 of the Constitution of Virginia that was adopted by the voters on November 6, 2018, which enables a locality to provide by ordinance a partial exemption from real property taxes for flooding abatement, mitigation, or resiliency efforts for improved real estate that is subject to recurrent flooding. The bill provides that exemptions may only be granted for qualifying flood improvements. Qualifying flood improvements are defined in the bill as improvements that do not increase the size of any impervious area and are made to qualifying structures or to land. Qualifying structures are defined as structures that were completed prior to July 1, 2018 or were completed more than 10 years prior to the completion of the improvements. For improvements made to land, the improvements must be made primarily for the benefit of one or more qualifying structures. No exemption shall be granted for any improvements made prior to

Real property taxes; partial exemption for flood mitigation efforts.

Del. Lynwood Lewis [D]

2019-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (88-Y 10-N) (Y: 88 N: 10 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (87-Y 10-N) (Y: 87 N: 10 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - House - House: Reported from Finance (18-Y 3-N) (Y: 18 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) (Y: 6 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N) (Y: 31 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-15 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (14-Y 2-N) (Y: 14 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-13	House	VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (88-Y 10-N)
2019-02-13	House	Passed House (88-Y 10-N)
2019-02-13	House	Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
2019-02-13	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (87-Y 10-N)
2019-02-13	House	Passed House (87-Y 10-N)
2019-02-13	House	Read third time
2019-02-12	House	Read second time
2019-02-11	House	Reported from Finance (18-Y 3-N)
2019-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
2019-02-01	House	Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-01-22	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2019-01-22	House	Read first time
2019-01-22	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-01-18	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N)
2019-01-17	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2019-01-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-15	Senate	Reported from Finance (14-Y 2-N)
2019-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2019-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103418D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	3228.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1588
Text	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1588+hil
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S05V0044+SB1588
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0027SB1588+SB1588
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0083SB1588+SB1588
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1002V0024+SB1588
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H10V0123+SB1588
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2755+SB1588
Roll Call	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2757+SB1588