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type: "Bill"
title: "Taxes, local; surplus revenues."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "Virginia SB 12 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-08"
last_action: "2022-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5ef82c8-c263-4350-975b-ca069b49d144"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB12"
source_hash: "4d785c4a31af743ec98783c7e47f5307f25fb0f727a172d68007aa8103d68557"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0166)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101319D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB12)
3. **SB12ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB12ER)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5ef82c8-c263-4350-975b-ca069b49d144`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).