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Bill	Virginia housing opportunity; tax credit established.	Virginia housing opportunity tax credit.Establishes, starting in taxable year 2021, a Virginia housing opportunitytax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-incomehousing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housing DevelopmentAuthority to a low-income building that is eligible for the federalcredit. The credit would be nonrefundable and could be carried forward for up to five years.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1197	Virginia SB 1197 (2021)	bill		enacted	Mamie E. Locke	5	49	13	2021-01-11	2021-05-18	openstates	ocd-bill/5de9ffce-0edf-4ee8-98c6-c8a833091c19	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1197	054aee282d7395870a56752f66f4d50503f1f4e4fc08cdc6052396abc0e87707	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1197 (2021) — Virginia housing opportunity; tax credit established.

Virginia housing opportunity tax credit.Establishes, starting in taxable year 2021, a Virginia housing opportunitytax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-incomehousing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housing DevelopmentAuthority to a low-income building that is eligible for the federalcredit. The credit would be nonrefundable and could be carried forward for up to five years.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0495 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21200332D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference substitute printed 21200718D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102520D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1197ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Agreed To (60-Y 39-N) — 59–39 (pass) · lower
• House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 36-N) — 1–36 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with amendment(s) (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 8-N) — 12–8 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (61-Y 39-N) — 60–39 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N) — 5–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102520D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-23 Impact statement from TAX (SB1197)
• 2021-02-02 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-04 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-07 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-07 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance
• 2021-02-15 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-15 Reported from Finance with amendment(s) (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-15 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-16 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-02-17 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-17 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-17 Committee substitute printed 21200332D-H1 substitution
• 2021-02-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-19 Passed by temporarily
• 2021-02-19 Committee on Finance amendment agreed to
• 2021-02-19 Committee on Finance amendment reconsidered
• 2021-02-19 Committee on Finance amendment rejected
• 2021-02-19 Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 21200332D-H1
• 2021-02-19 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1197H1
• 2021-02-19 Passed House with substitute (61-Y 39-N) passage
• 2021-02-19 VOTE: Passage (61-Y 39-N)
• 2021-02-19 Passed by temporarily
• 2021-02-19 House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 36-N)
• 2021-02-19 House insisted on substitute
• 2021-02-19 House requested conference committee
• 2021-02-19 Senate acceded to request (37-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-19 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2021-02-19 Conferees appointed by House
• 2021-02-26 Amended by conference committee
• 2021-02-26 Conference substitute printed 21200718D-S1
• 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-27 Conference report agreed to by House (60-Y 39-N)
• 2021-02-27 VOTE: Agreed To (60-Y 39-N)
• 2021-03-09 Enrolled
• 2021-03-09 Signed by President
• 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
• 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 495 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature
• 2021-05-18 Impact statement from TAX (SB1197ER)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5de9ffce-0edf-4ee8-98c6-c8a833091c19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).