republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-179.md

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Bill	Public facilities; bonds issued for construction, municipal authority to retain certain tax revenue.	Extends until July 1, 2020, the authority of any municipality to issue bonds for the construction of certain public facilities and retain sales and use tax revenue generated within such facilities to pay off such bonds. Under current law, such authority expired on July 1, 2017.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 179	Virginia HB 179 (2018)	bill	Bond Issues Public Buildings Facilities and Property Sales and Use Tax Taxation	enacted	Christopher E. Collins	4	13	5	2017-12-23	2018-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/1a312d77-74c1-4c40-8fd8-e2eca6963473	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB179	262c1b47e3e7e6c41c516374ebefd234991bc8d47edcc0ff7434ddc7d679b8b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 179 (2018) — Public facilities; bonds issued for construction, municipal authority to retain certain tax revenue.

Extends until July 1, 2020, the authority of any municipality to issue bonds for the construction of certain public facilities and retain sales and use tax revenue generated within such facilities to pay off such bonds. Under current law, such authority expired on July 1, 2017.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB179ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101412D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 18101412D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-12-23 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101412D introduction
• 2017-12-23 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2018-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-01-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-01-25 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2018-01-25 Engrossed by House as amended HB179E
• 2018-01-25 Printed as engrossed 18101412D-E
• 2018-01-26 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-01-29 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2018-02-16 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-19 Enrolled
• 2018-02-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 25 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a312d77-74c1-4c40-8fd8-e2eca6963473. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).