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HB 698 Real estate tax; authorizes certain counties & cities to adopt income limit for elderly & disabled.
Introduced by: Mamye E. BaCote | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Real estate tax exemption for the elderly and handicapped. Adds the cities of Newport News and Hampton, and the counties of Hanover and Powhatan to the list of localities that may provide real estate tax exemptions to elderly and handicapped persons whose income and net worth do not exceed limitations that are higher than the income and net worth limitations that apply in general to counties, cities, and towns. The bill also increases the income limitation from $62,000 to $67,000 for the cities of Charlottesville, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and the counties of Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, and Powhatan. The bill incorporates HB 1428.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 087944424 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/08 House: Committee substitute printed 082572424-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 082960212-S1 pdf
- 02/27/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB698ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/11/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 087944424
- 01/08/08 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/15/08 House: Assigned Finance sub: 1
- 02/04/08 House: Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/08 House: Committee substitute printed 082572424-H1
- 02/05/08 House: Read first time
- 02/06/08 House: Read second time
- 02/06/08 House: Committee substitute agreed to 082572424-H1
- 02/06/08 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB698H1
- 02/07/08 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/08 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/19/08 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 082960212-S1
- 02/20/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/08 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/21/08 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 082960212-S1
- 02/21/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB698S1
- 02/21/08 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/08 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/08 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/25/08 House: Passed by temporarily
- 02/25/08 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 082960212-S1 (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/08 House: Enrolled
- 02/27/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB698ER)
- 02/27/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/28/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/04/08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 298 (effective 7/1/08)
- 03/11/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0298)