republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1681.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, eligible housing areas.	Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include census tracts in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area in which less than 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to such areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1681	Virginia HB 1681 (2019)	bill	Housing Income Tax Taxation	enacted	Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones	3	14	5	2018-12-05	2019-02-15	openstates	ocd-bill/adc9344d-bd8f-4da1-8a1a-89aa83841d1f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1681	557e2f61d2e85bd08655af0682616503e157515f3e6d7a6e83ff5862096fcdc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1681 (2019) — Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, eligible housing areas.

Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include census tracts in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area in which less than 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to such areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1681ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101630D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House — 87–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — primary (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101630D introduction
• 2018-12-05 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-01-16 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2019-01-18 Read third time and passed House (87-Y 8-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-21 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-21 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Enrolled
• 2019-02-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-11 Signed by President
• 2019-02-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
• 2019-02-12 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
• 2019-02-15 Approved by Governor-Chapter 19 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/adc9344d-bd8f-4da1-8a1a-89aa83841d1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).