Transit funding; raises the existing regional transportation fee, etc. (HB729)
Introduced By
Del. Vivian Watts (D-Annandale)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
✓ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
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. Read the Bill »
Status
12/04/2020: Failed to Pass in Committee
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/06/2020 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101892D |
| 01/06/2020 | Referred to Committee on Finance |
| 02/05/2020 | House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered |
| 02/05/2020 | Committee substitute printed 20107760D-H1 |
| 02/05/2020 | Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 8-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/06/2020 | Read first time |
| 02/07/2020 | Passed by for the day |
| 02/10/2020 | Floor substitute printed 20108032D-H2 (Watts) |
| 02/10/2020 | Read second time |
| 02/10/2020 | Committee on Finance substitute rejected 20107760D-H1 |
| 02/10/2020 | Substitute by Delegate Watts agreed to 20108032D-H2 |
| 02/10/2020 | Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB729H2 |
| 02/11/2020 | Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N) |
| 02/11/2020 | VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/12/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 02/12/2020 | Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations |
| 02/24/2020 | Impact statement from DPB (HB729H2) |
| 02/25/2020 | Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 12/04/2020 | Left in Finance and Appropriations |