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Bill Worker retraining tax credit; sunset date, worker training investment tax credit. Advances the sunset date of the worker retraining tax credit from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2019, and creates the worker training investment tax credit to replace it beginning with taxable year 2019. The worker training investment tax credit is a modification of the worker retraining tax credit. Credit is allowed to businesses who provide (i) eligible worker training, defined in the bill, or (ii) manufacturing instruction to students. The provisions relating to manufacturing instruction are identical to those in the expiring worker retraining tax credit. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 2539 Virginia HB 2539 (2019)
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Virginia HB 2539 (2019) — Worker retraining tax credit; sunset date, worker training investment tax credit.

Advances the sunset date of the worker retraining tax credit from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2019, and creates the worker training investment tax credit to replace it beginning with taxable year 2019. The worker training investment tax credit is a modification of the worker retraining tax credit. Credit is allowed to businesses who provide (i) eligible worker training, defined in the bill, or (ii) manufacturing instruction to students. The provisions relating to manufacturing instruction are identical to those in the expiring worker retraining tax credit.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2539ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102343D (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate amendment agreed to by House — 895 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate with amendment — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance with amendment — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance — 202 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House — 889 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 390 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Kathy J. Byron — primary (person)
  • R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
  • Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
  • T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102343D introduction
  • 2019-01-09 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
  • 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-01-25 Read third time and passed House (88-Y 9-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2019-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2019-01-28 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
  • 2019-02-13 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-02-13 Reading of amendment waived
  • 2019-02-13 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2019-02-13 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2019-02-13 Placed on Calendar
  • 2019-02-13 Senate amendment agreed to by House (89-Y 5-N)
  • 2019-02-15 Enrolled
  • 2019-02-15 Signed by Speaker
  • 2019-02-15 Signed by President
  • 2019-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
  • 2019-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
  • 2019-03-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 189 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/489794a9-2d80-4298-971c-c8d15919bb6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).