republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1298.md

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Bill	Tourism improvement districts; authorizes any locality to create.	Tourism improvement districts. Authorizesany locality to create a local tourism improvement district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund tourismpromotion activities and capital improvements. Under the bill, thelocality is authorized to contract with a nonprofit entity to administerthe activities and improvements.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1298	Virginia SB 1298 (2021)	bill		enacted	John J. Bell	3	26	8	2021-01-11	2021-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/d75dbf74-8bcf-42c0-a86c-639617b01371	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1298	4e4946b622b91809d3ee297e47a87aa364e0a602f848a860e2f28c19b2c46051	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1298 (2021) — Tourism improvement districts; authorizes any locality to create.

Tourism improvement districts. Authorizesany locality to create a local tourism improvement district plan, consisting of fees charged to businesses and used to fund tourismpromotion activities and capital improvements. Under the bill, thelocality is authorized to contract with a nonprofit entity to administerthe activities and improvements.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0500 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102381D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB1298ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage #2 (62-Y 36-N) — 61–36 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (64-Y 35-N) — 63–35 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John J. Bell — primary (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• L. Louise Lucas — cosponsor (person)
• Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
• Steve E. Heretick — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
• Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102381D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2021-01-18 Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-18 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-26 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-28 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2021-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
• 2021-02-12 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-17 Passed House (64-Y 35-N) passage
• 2021-02-17 VOTE: Passage (64-Y 35-N)
• 2021-02-17 Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
• 2021-02-17 Passed House (62-Y 36-N) passage
• 2021-02-17 VOTE: Passage #2 (62-Y 36-N)
• 2021-02-19 Enrolled
• 2021-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-22 Signed by President
• 2021-02-24 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
• 2021-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 500 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d75dbf74-8bcf-42c0-a86c-639617b01371. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).