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SB 219 Constitutional amendment; real property tax exemption for flooding remediation, abatement, etc.
Introduced by: Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption for flooding remediation, abatement, and resiliency. Provides for a referendum at the November 6, 2018, election to approve or reject an amendment to allow the General Assembly to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns to provide for a partial exemption from local real property taxation, within such restrictions and upon such conditions as may be prescribed, of improved real estate subject to recurrent flooding upon which flooding abatement, mitigation, or resiliency efforts have been undertaken. This bill is the companion ballot legislation for SJR 21.
FULL TEXT
- 01/03/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104027D pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/18 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB219ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/03/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104027D
- 01/03/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/30/18 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/18 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/07/18 Senate: Reported from Finance (14-Y 2-N)
- 02/08/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/18 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/12/18 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/12/18 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 5-N)
- 02/15/18 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/18 House: Read first time
- 02/15/18 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/15/18 House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #4
- 02/19/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- 02/23/18 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (18-Y 3-N)
- 02/27/18 House: Read second time
- 02/28/18 House: Read third time
- 02/28/18 House: Passed House (87-Y 12-N)
- 02/28/18 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (87-Y 12-N)
- 03/05/18 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/05/18 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB219ER)
- 03/05/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/14/18 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 14, 2018
- 03/14/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
- 03/30/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 616 (effective 7/1/18)
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0616)