republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-957.md

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Bill	Real property; classification, property owned by certain surviving spouses for tax purposes.	Classification of real property owned by certain surviving spouses for tax purposes. Provides that beginning with taxable year 2022, any locality may declare real property owned by a surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who died in the line of duty with a line of duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense, while performing official military activities and where such death was not the result of criminal conduct, and where the spouse occupies the real property as his principal place of residence and does not remarry, a separate class of property for local taxation of real property that may be taxed at a different rate than that imposed on the general class of real property, provided that the rate of tax is greater than zero and does not exceed the rate of tax on the general class of real property.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 957	Virginia HB 957 (2022)	bill		enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	4	36	7	2022-01-12	2022-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/7968cda4-d7bc-49b6-8031-810f28e625dd	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB957	885a7f319d102e22eab8f8feb9759b1e874cecd21bbf94011fc0698a22dc7d4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 957 (2022) — Real property; classification, property owned by certain surviving spouses for tax purposes.

Classification of real property owned by certain surviving spouses for tax purposes. Provides that beginning with taxable year 2022, any locality may declare real property owned by a surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who died in the line of duty with a line of duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense, while performing official military activities and where such death was not the result of criminal conduct, and where the spouse occupies the real property as his principal place of residence and does not remarry, a separate class of property for local taxation of real property that may be taxed at a different rate than that imposed on the general class of real property, provided that the rate of tax is greater than zero and does not exceed the rate of tax on the general class of real property.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0077 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22105620D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB957ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100675D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
• Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100675D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Impact statement from TAX (HB957)
• 2022-01-31 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2022-02-04 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-04 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-04 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-07 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-07 Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-07 Committee substitute printed 22105620D-H1 substitution
• 2022-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 22105620D-H1
• 2022-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB957H1
• 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-11 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-14 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-16 Impact statement from TAX (HB957H1)
• 2022-03-02 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-02 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-03-04 Amendment by Senator agreed to amendment-passage
• 2022-03-04 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2022-03-04 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-08 Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-11 Impact statement from TAX (HB957ER)
• 2022-03-11 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 77 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7968cda4-d7bc-49b6-8031-810f28e625dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).