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Bill	Taxes on income, wills, and administrations; exemption for victims of the Va. Beach mass shooting.	Taxes on income, wills, and administrations; exemption for victims of the Virginia Beach mass shooting and for payments to such victims; emergency. Establishes an income tax exemption for relief payments paid to a victim of the 2019 Virginia Beach mass shooting or a parent, guardian, child, or spouse of a victim. The bill also establishes an exemption from probate tax for a person killed or injured in the shooting. The bill provides that if, prior to its enactment, a person eligible for a tax exemption pursuant to the bill paid tax to the Commonwealth or a locality for a will or grant of administration of a victim's estate, either the Commonwealth or the locality shall refund the tax. The bill establishes a deduction for a taxpayer's relief payment, whether directly or indirectly, to a victim of the Virginia Beach mass shooting, provided the taxpayer coordinates with the City of Virginia Beach to identify victims and distribute payments. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 93	Virginia SB 93 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bill DeSteph	4	30	6	2019-12-02	2020-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/b9b718b9-a868-49f1-8b5c-9e75d02b6ed2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB93	33bbc4e39c0fda0911f951ae491a31bd23dd85a0194ac0b472bb67dde6c40ac5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 93 (2020) — Taxes on income, wills, and administrations; exemption for victims of the Va. Beach mass shooting.

Taxes on income, wills, and administrations; exemption for victims of the Virginia Beach mass shooting and for payments to such victims; emergency. Establishes an income tax exemption for relief payments paid to a victim of the 2019 Virginia Beach mass shooting or a parent, guardian, child, or spouse of a victim. The bill also establishes an exemption from probate tax for a person killed or injured in the shooting. The bill provides that if, prior to its enactment, a person eligible for a tax exemption pursuant to the bill paid tax to the Commonwealth or a locality for a will or grant of administration of a victim's estate, either the Commonwealth or the locality shall refund the tax. The bill establishes a deduction for a taxpayer's relief payment, whether directly or indirectly, to a victim of the Virginia Beach mass shooting, provided the taxpayer coordinates with the City of Virginia Beach to identify victims and distribute payments. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0278) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB93ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB93S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from TAX (SB93) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill DeSteph — primary (person)
• Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
• Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-02 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/08/20 20101254D introduction
• 2019-12-02 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
• 2020-01-19 Impact statement from TAX (SB93)
• 2020-01-21 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-21 Committee substitute printed 20106162D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-22 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 20106162D-S1
• 2020-01-22 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB93S1
• 2020-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-22 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-10 Impact statement from TAX (SB93E)
• 2020-02-10 Impact statement from TAX (SB93S1)
• 2020-02-18 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-18 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-18 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from TAX (SB93ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-10 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 278 (effective 3/11/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9b718b9-a868-49f1-8b5c-9e75d02b6ed2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).