republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-944.md

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Bill	Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation.	Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation. Provides that moneys from the Forest Sustainability Fund must be allocated proportionally among localities that forgo tax revenues as a result of the use value assessment and taxation for real estate devoted for forest use. The bill specifies that no locality shall receive an allocation of more than four percent or less than one-half of one percent of available funds from the Fund. This bill is identical to SB 129.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 944	Virginia HB 944 (2024)	bill		enacted	Alfonso H. Lopez	3	28	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/86b1ca02-33f5-428c-85ad-2f5efb8e8f52	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB944	fb1c6841544978483088720a8e0057a28de0f572aa2bc811193450358ffac54a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 944 (2024) — Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation.

Forest Sustainability Fund; fund allocation. Provides that moneys from the Forest Sustainability Fund must be allocated proportionally among localities that forgo tax revenues as a result of the use value assessment and taxation for real estate devoted for forest use. The bill specifies that no locality shall receive an allocation of more than four percent or less than one-half of one percent of available funds from the Fund. This bill is identical to SB 129.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0699 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB944ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101329D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Referred from Finance — 0–0 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101329D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB944)
• 2024-01-25 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Referred from Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB944ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB944ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 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
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 699 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0699)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86b1ca02-33f5-428c-85ad-2f5efb8e8f52. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).