republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-200.md

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Bill	Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, definition of eligible housing areas.	Income tax credits for housing choice vouchers; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to certain areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area. The bill provides that the credit would sunset in 2025. Under current law, there is no sunset. This bill is identical to HB 590.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 200	Virginia SB 200 (2020)	bill		enacted	George L. Barker	4	42	9	2019-12-30	2020-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/a1f2e68f-bda2-49d6-92c8-1a6c40e2c227	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB200	ca7330d4ea893766b2d34b59096185e56c7953e3cbda896b8a5c78d528e6c64c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 200 (2020) — Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, definition of eligible housing areas.

Income tax credits for housing choice vouchers; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to certain areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area. The bill provides that the credit would sunset in 2025. Under current law, there is no sunset. This bill is identical to HB 590.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1032) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB200ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB200S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from TAX (SB200) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 42-N) — 56–42 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with amendment (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (59-Y 41-N) — 58–41 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 37-N) — 0–37 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-30 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102465D introduction
• 2019-12-30 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 (SB200)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Committee substitute printed 20106812D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 20106812D-S1
• 2020-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB200S1
• 2020-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-10 Impact statement from TAX (SB200S1)
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Finance with amendment (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-17 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2020-02-17 Passed House with amendment (59-Y 41-N) passage
• 2020-02-17 VOTE: Passage (59-Y 41-N)
• 2020-02-19 House amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 37-N)
• 2020-02-20 House insisted on amendment
• 2020-02-20 House requested conference committee
• 2020-02-24 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-02-25 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-03-05 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-05 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-03-05 Conference report agreed to by House (57-Y 42-N)
• 2020-03-05 VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 42-N)
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-18 Enrolled
• 2020-03-18 Signed by President
• 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-24 Impact statement from TAX (SB200ER)
• 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1032 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1f2e68f-bda2-49d6-92c8-1a6c40e2c227. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).