republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-483.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 is identical to HB 1429.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 483	Virginia SB 483 (2024)	bill		enacted	Lashrecse D. Aird	3	25	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/87751e7b-b1b7-4396-a51f-257352daa90e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB483	45383bc6b5aa4af9153b9d18a603ab27d0c9b76bdf2ea397ed1e5abab7ad1369	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 483 (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 is identical to HB 1429.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0088 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102642D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB483ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
• Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102642D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from TAX (SB483)
• 2024-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-22 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y -0-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB483ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from TAX (SB483ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 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
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 88 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0088)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87751e7b-b1b7-4396-a51f-257352daa90e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).