republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-107.md

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Bill	Transient occupancy tax; removes 7/1/21, sunset date from Arlington County's authority to impose.	Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Removes the July 1, 2021, sunset date from Arlington County's authority to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed 0.25 percent to be used for the purpose of promoting tourism and business travel in the county. Under current law, in addition to this tax, Arlington County is authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed five percent. This bill is identical to HB 62.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 107	Virginia SB 107 (2020)	bill		enacted	Janet D. Howell	3	23	5	2019-12-09	2020-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/e46a281d-9340-4b08-8eea-a6c85162976a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB107	0d742a975745ec89038fe401aec68e8be01c77d664fd1d4fe5a5c3e4b2d2451f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 107 (2020) — Transient occupancy tax; removes 7/1/21, sunset date from Arlington County's authority to impose.

Transient occupancy tax; Arlington County. Removes the July 1, 2021, sunset date from Arlington County's authority to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed 0.25 percent to be used for the purpose of promoting tourism and business travel in the county. Under current law, in addition to this tax, Arlington County is authorized to impose a transient occupancy tax at a rate not to exceed five percent. This bill is identical to HB 62.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB107ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from TAX (SB107) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (78-Y 22-N) — 77–22 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N) — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance (15-Y 7-N) — 15–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Janet D. Howell — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101359D introduction
• 2019-12-09 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Finance to Finance and Appropriations due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-13 Impact statement from TAX (SB107)
• 2020-01-15 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-20 Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Finance (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Passed House (78-Y 22-N) passage
• 2020-02-17 VOTE: Passage (78-Y 22-N)
• 2020-02-19 Enrolled
• 2020-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-20 Signed by President
• 2020-02-21 Impact statement from TAX (SB107ER)
• 2020-02-24 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2020
• 2020-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020
• 2020-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 61 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e46a281d-9340-4b08-8eea-a6c85162976a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).