Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, eligible housing areas.
Summary
Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include census tracts in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area in which less than 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to such areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area. This bill is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2018
Committee Review
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Dec 5, 2018
Signed Feb 15, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 7, 2019 · House of Delegates Jan 14, 2019
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 7, 2019
D
Democratic19
100% Yea
R
Republican21
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
4
Committee
2
Feb 15, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 19 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 7, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (40-0)
senate
Jan 21, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
upper
Jan 18, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (87-Y 8-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2019
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (20-2)
house of delegates
Dec 5, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
lower
Dec 5, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101630D
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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