republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-240.md

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Bill	Property tax; exemption for surviving spouses of armed forces members who died in the line of duty.	Property tax exemption; surviving spouses ofarmed forces members who died in the line of duty. Expands thereal property tax exemption that is currently available to the survivingspouses of soldiers killed in action to the surviving spouses ofsoldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determinationfrom the U.S. Department of Defense. This bill is enabling legislationfor a constitutional amendment to be presented during the November2024 general election.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 240	Virginia SB 240 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	3	24	5	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/4925c014-ca06-4d6c-bae8-eb5307e19c8e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB240	a9529f148b4008efab813ec5f42e85da29e645e169b35ce20463ac14cdbf33d8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 240 (2024) — Property tax; exemption for surviving spouses of armed forces members who died in the line of duty.

Property tax exemption; surviving spouses ofarmed forces members who died in the line of duty. Expands thereal property tax exemption that is currently available to the survivingspouses of soldiers killed in action to the surviving spouses ofsoldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determinationfrom the U.S. Department of Defense. This bill is enabling legislationfor a constitutional amendment to be presented during the November2024 general election.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0583 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100971D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB240ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100971D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from TAX (SB240)
• 2024-01-30 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB240ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-12 Impact statement from TAX (SB240ER)
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 583 (effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4925c014-ca06-4d6c-bae8-eb5307e19c8e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).