Real property; classification, property owned by certain surviving spouses for tax purposes.
Summary
Classification of real property owned by certain surviving spouses for tax purposes. Provides that beginning with taxable year 2022, any locality may declare real property owned by a surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who died in the line of duty with a line of duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense, while performing official military activities and where such death was not the result of criminal conduct, and where the spouse occupies the real property as his principal place of residence and does not remarry, a separate class of property for local taxation of real property that may be taxed at a different rate than that imposed on the general class of real property, provided that the rate of tax is greater than zero and does not exceed the rate of tax on the general class of real property.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 12, 2022
Signed Apr 5, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 3, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 11, 2022
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
Mar 3, 2022
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
36
Key actions
13
Committee
11
Amendments
4
Apr 5, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 77 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Mar 8, 2022
Introduced
Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
lower
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Amendment by Senator agreed to
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (32-0-1)
senate
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 14, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 10, 2022
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB957H1
lower
Feb 10, 2022
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 22105620D-H1
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Lower · Passed
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 4, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 4, 2022
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Committee
Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #3
lower
Jan 12, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
lower
Jan 12, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100675D
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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