republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1429.md

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Bill	Tangible personal property tax; exemption for indoor agriculture equipment and machinery.	Tangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farm equipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility are a class of farm machinery and farm implements that a locality may exempt from personal property taxation. This bill incorporates HB 384 and is identical to SB 483.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1429	Virginia HB 1429 (2024)	bill		enacted	Amy J. Laufer	4	30	6	2024-01-18	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/f1a03ecb-f790-488f-b1ca-ac2776bbf26b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1429	7f7ae0389899e81700d10c5d79e6943696e3a78ee4e26638881838e5472e7aa8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1429 (2024) — Tangible personal property tax; exemption for indoor agriculture equipment and machinery.

Tangible personal property tax; indoor agriculture equipment and machinery. Specifies that farm machinery, farm equipment, and farm implements used by an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility are a class of farm machinery and farm implements that a locality may exempt from personal property taxation. This bill incorporates HB 384 and is identical to SB 483.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0087 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106718D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1429ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Presented and ordered printed 24105709D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Amy J. Laufer — primary (person)
• R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-18 Presented and ordered printed 24105709D introduction
• 2024-01-18 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Impact statement from TAX (HB1429)
• 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24106718D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Incorporates HB384 (Ware)
• 2024-02-01 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106718D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1429H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1429ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from TAX (HB1429ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 87 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0087)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1a03ecb-f790-488f-b1ca-ac2776bbf26b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).