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Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections
Subcommittee Constitutional Amendments, Reapportionment, Referenda

Deeds (Chairman), Martin, Whipple, McEachin, Smith, Northam, McWaters

Clerk: Hobie Lehman
Staff: M. Spain, J. Austin, D. Cotter
Date of Meeting: January 26, 2010
Time and Place: 9:15 a.m. 3rd Floor West Conference Room

S.B. 31

Patron: Puller

Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property tax exemptions.  Provides for a referendum at the November 2, 2010, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to provide a real property tax exemption for the principal residence of a veteran, or his or her surviving spouse, if the veteran has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability.

S.B. 362

Patron: Barker

Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund.  Provides for a referendum at the November 2010 election on the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to the limit on the size of the Revenue Stabilization Fund. The proposed amendment increases the permissible size of the Fund by 50 percent; i.e., from 10 percent to 15 percent of the Commonwealth's average annual tax revenues derived from income and sales taxes for the preceding three fiscal years.

S.B. 547

Patron: Barker

Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); property exempt from taxation.  Provides for a referendum at the November 2010 election on the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment relating to property exempt from taxation. The proposed amendment allows the General Assembly to authorize localities to establish their own income or financial worth limitations for purposes of granting property tax relief for homeowners not less than 65 years of age or permanently and totally disabled. The Constitution presently requires a showing that the homeowners granted property tax relief bear an extraordinary tax burden on the property in relation to their income or financial worth as provided by the General Assembly by state law.

S.J.R. 13

Patrons: Puller, Stuart

Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property tax exemption for certain veterans.  Directs the General Assembly to exempt from taxation real property that is the principal residence of a veteran (or widow or widower of a veteran) if the veteran has been determined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or its successor agency pursuant to federal law to have a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability.

S.J.R. 25

Patron: Petersen

Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation.  Authorizes the General Assembly to enact laws to permit localities to exempt from property taxes, any property, including real or personal property, equipment, facilities, or devices, constructed or designed to conserve energy and natural resources in a manner that meets or exceeds performance standards established for such purposes. The amendment also deletes the authorization for the General Assembly by general law to directly exempt from property taxes such property and property designed to abate pollution or transfer or store solar energy.

S.J.R. 81

Patron: Barker

Constitutional amendment (second resolution); limit on taxes or revenues and the Revenue Stabilization Fund.  Increases the permissible size of the Fund by 50 percent; i.e., from 10 percent to 15 percent of the Commonwealth's average annual tax revenues derived from income and sales taxes for the preceding three fiscal years.

S.J.R. 97

Patron: Barker

Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation.  Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to establish their own income or financial worth limitations for purposes of granting property tax relief for homeowners not less than 65 years of age or permanently and totally disabled. The Constitution presently requires a showing that the homeowners granted property tax relief bear an extraordinary tax burden on the property in relation to their income or financial worth as provided by the General Assembly by state law.