republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-273.md

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Bill	Tangible personal property tax; classes of property, satellites.	Tangible personal property tax; classes of property; satellites. Extends the sunset date for the classification of tangible personal property used in manufacturing, testing, or operating satellites within a Multicounty Transportation Improvement District as a separate class of property from June 30, 2019, to June 30, 2029. This bill is identical to HB 724.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 273	Virginia SB 273 (2020)	bill		enacted	John J. Bell	4	30	7	2020-01-03	2020-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/78daa982-1a6f-483c-a1e7-bf56d5d949e3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB273	d5d19188d9e35ecaeac0aa3d03ab9ce6f013d6070b71ce87b0847256e86ceb03	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 273 (2020) — Tangible personal property tax; classes of property, satellites.

Tangible personal property tax; classes of property; satellites. Extends the sunset date for the classification of tangible personal property used in manufacturing, testing, or operating satellites within a Multicounty Transportation Improvement District as a separate class of property from June 30, 2019, to June 30, 2029. This bill is identical to HB 724.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB273ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB273E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from TAX (SB273) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N) — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John J. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102630D introduction
• 2020-01-03 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
• 2020-01-12 Impact statement from TAX (SB273)
• 2020-01-15 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-17 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-01-17 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-01-17 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB273E
• 2020-01-17 Printed as engrossed 20102630D-E
• 2020-01-20 Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-20 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-20 Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2020-02-11 Impact statement from TAX (SB273E)
• 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 (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-17 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Enrolled
• 2020-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-20 Signed by President
• 2020-02-21 Impact statement from TAX (SB273ER)
• 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 64 (effective 1/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78daa982-1a6f-483c-a1e7-bf56d5d949e3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).