VA HB2085 | 2019 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Rules
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Rules
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
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.
Title
Transit funding; raises the existing regional transportation fee, etc.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2019-02-05 | House | Left in Rules |
2019-01-07 | House | Referred to Committee on Rules |
2019-01-07 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101608D |
Code Citations
Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
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33 | 2 | 2509 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
58 | 1 | 1743 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
58 | 1 | 802.3 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
Virginia State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2085 |
Text | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2085+hil |