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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tourism improvement districts; authorizes any locality to create."
+description: "Tourism improvement districts. Authorizesany locality to create a local tourism improvement district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund tourismpromotion activities and capital improvements. Under the bill, thelocality is authorized to contract with a nonprofit entity to administerthe activities and improvements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1298"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1298 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John J. Bell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2021-01-11"
+last_action: "2021-03-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d75dbf74-8bcf-42c0-a86c-639617b01371"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1298"
+source_hash: "4e4946b622b91809d3ee297e47a87aa364e0a602f848a860e2f28c19b2c46051"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 1298 (2021) — Tourism improvement districts; authorizes any locality to create.
+
+Tourism improvement districts. Authorizesany locality to create a local tourism improvement district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund tourismpromotion activities and capital improvements. Under the bill, thelocality is authorized to contract with a nonprofit entity to administerthe activities and improvements.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0500** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0500)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102381D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1298)
+3. **SB1298ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1298ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage #2 (62-Y 36-N) — **61–36** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (64-Y 35-N) — **63–35** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John J. Bell — primary (person)
+- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Louise Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve E. Heretick — cosponsor (person)
+- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
+- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102381D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-18** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-18** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
+- **2021-02-12** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-17** Passed House (64-Y 35-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-17** VOTE: Passage (64-Y 35-N)
+- **2021-02-17** Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
+- **2021-02-17** Passed House (62-Y 36-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-17** VOTE: Passage #2 (62-Y 36-N)
+- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
+- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 500 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d75dbf74-8bcf-42c0-a86c-639617b01371`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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