Virginia House Bill 2237 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Economic development incentives; disclosure to public. Provides that no project that includes an offer of economic development incentives shall be approved by the Governor unless the essential terms of the offer are disclosed to the public no less than 21 days prior to approval. The bill defines essential terms as the aggregate amount of incentives to be provided by the Commonwealth, how the incentives are to be allocated, the projected return on investment for the Commonwealth, the projected time frame for repayment of the incentives, the Division of Incentives' projections for the number of new jobs that will be created and the average wage of those new jobs, and any proposed agreement between the Commonwealth and the recipient of the incentives regarding the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.

Economic development incentives; disclosure to public.

Del. Michael Webert [R]

2019-01-16 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Appropriations
2019-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
2019-01-14	House	Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Technology
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101330D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	2237.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2237
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2237+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0201V0007+HB2237