republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-12.md

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Bill	Taxes, local; surplus revenues.	Local taxes; surplus revenues. Grants localities permissive authority to return surplus personal property tax revenues to taxpayers. Under current law, localities may return only surplus real property tax revenues. This bill is identical to HB 267.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 12	Virginia SB 12 (2022)	bill		enacted	David R. Suetterlein	3	22	5	2021-12-08	2022-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/c5ef82c8-c263-4350-975b-ca069b49d144	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB12	4d785c4a31af743ec98783c7e47f5307f25fb0f727a172d68007aa8103d68557	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 12 (2022) — Taxes, local; surplus revenues.

Local taxes; surplus revenues. Grants localities permissive authority to return surplus personal property tax revenues to taxpayers. Under current law, localities may return only surplus real property tax revenues. This bill is identical to HB 267.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0166 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101319D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB12ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (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

• David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-12-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101319D introduction
• 2021-12-08 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Impact statement from TAX (SB12)
• 2022-02-01 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-07 Enrolled
• 2022-03-07 Impact statement from TAX (SB12ER)
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 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
• 2022-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 166 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c5ef82c8-c263-4350-975b-ca069b49d144. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).