republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-513.md

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Bill	Data centers; center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, etc.	Property tax; data centers. Provides that if data center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, they shall be valued based on depreciated reproduction or replacement cost, rather than based on the amount of income they generate. This bill is identical to HB 791.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 513	Virginia SB 513 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	3	22	5	2022-01-12	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/b8689f13-ac0b-4049-ab86-18211710a2c2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB513	7a27105db1333bb670695975e904c09c59eccae64a34bbad91835e29114fff7c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 513 (2022) — Data centers; center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, etc.

Property tax; data centers. Provides that if data center fixtures are taxed as part of the real property where they are located, they shall be valued based on depreciated reproduction or replacement cost, rather than based on the amount of income they generate. This bill is identical to HB 791.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0672 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104161D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB513ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N 1-A) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104161D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Impact statement from TAX (SB513)
• 2022-02-08 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-11 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 Finance referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Reported from Finance (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Passed House (98-Y 1-N) passage
• 2022-02-28 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N)
• 2022-03-02 Enrolled
• 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-03 Signed by President
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from TAX (SB513ER)
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 672 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8689f13-ac0b-4049-ab86-18211710a2c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).