republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-4.md

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Bill	Constitutional amendment; property tax exemption for certain surviving spouses (voter referendum).	Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would expand the real property tax exemption that is currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action to be available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense. This bill is identical to HB 558.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 4	Virginia SB 4 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	3	26	6	2023-11-20	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/4b618f5e-5c16-4d96-9a6b-859de90e0744	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB4	37ee8303a297f8145175c066511dde011b5cb2ae4205da49da3938b7e1872e7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 4 (2024) — Constitutional amendment; property tax exemption for certain surviving spouses (voter referendum).

Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia that would expand the real property tax exemption that is currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action to be available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense. This bill is identical to HB 558.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0395 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100994D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB4ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (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
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-20 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100994D filing, introduction
• 2023-11-20 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2024-01-20 Impact statement from TAX (SB4)
• 2024-01-23 Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 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 Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB4ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from TAX (SB4ER)
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-28 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 395 (effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b618f5e-5c16-4d96-9a6b-859de90e0744. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).