Virginia Senate Bill 899 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-04 - Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [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, etc.

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]

2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-04	Senate	Stricken at request of Patron in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101937D

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+SB899
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB899+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0132+SB0899