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2020 SESSION
HB 729 Transit funding; raises the existing regional transportation fee, grantor's tax, etc.
Introduced by: Vivian E. Watts | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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. This bill incorporates HB 977.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101892D pdf
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107760D-H1 pdf
- 02/10/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20108032D-H2 (Watts) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101892D
- 01/06/20 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107760D-H1
- 02/05/20 House: Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/06/20 House: Read first time
- 02/07/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/10/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20108032D-H2 (Watts)
- 02/10/20 House: Read second time
- 02/10/20 House: Committee on Finance substitute rejected 20107760D-H1
- 02/10/20 House: Substitute by Delegate Watts agreed to 20108032D-H2
- 02/10/20 House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB729H2
- 02/11/20 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N)
- 02/11/20 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
- 02/12/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/12/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
- 02/25/20 Senate: Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)