republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1743.md

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Bill	License tax, local; work group to review deduction for receipts attributable to out-of-state.	License taxes; deduction for out-of-state receipts; work group; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to convene a work group to review the policies, methods, existing laws, and potential impacts of the local license tax deduction in Virginia for receipts attributable to out-of-state business and to submit a report of the findings and recommendations, if any, of the work group to the Joint Subcommittee on Tax Policy and to the Chairs of the House Committee on Finance, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by October 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1743	Virginia HB 1743 (2025)	bill		enacted	Vivian E. Watts	9	49	12	2025-01-04	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/6294beaa-7739-4dd5-af86-4067944bba3c	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1743	24e1cbfe92255d266cc75b8bf86d8095e172c01b4a2ab83113ea8f31698c738d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1743 (2025) — License tax, local; work group to review deduction for receipts attributable to out-of-state.

License taxes; deduction for out-of-state receipts; work group; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to convene a work group to review the policies, methods, existing laws, and potential impacts of the local license tax deduction in Virginia for receipts attributable to out-of-state business and to submit a report of the findings and recommendations, if any, of the work group to the Joint Subcommittee on Tax Policy and to the Chairs of the House Committee on Finance, the House Committee on Appropriations, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by October 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Conference Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Finance Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Finance and Appropriations Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
8. HFIN Sub: Subcommittee #2 Amendment (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House (Y-2 N-93 A-0) — 2–93 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vivian E. Watts — primary (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102625D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Impact statement from TAX (HB1743)
• 2025-01-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Finance with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106460D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Finance Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Impact statement from TAX (HB1743)
• 2025-02-10 Impact statement from CLG (HB1743)
• 2025-02-11 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-11 Committee substitute printed 25107127D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-12 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-12 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-14 Senate substitute rejected by House (Y-2 N-93 A-0)
• 2025-02-18 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-18 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-19 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-19 Delegates: Watts, Anthony, McNamara
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: Deeds, Locke, McDougle
• 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-21 Conference substitute printed 25107972D-H2
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1743ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Impact statement from TAX (HB1743)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 192 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0192)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6294beaa-7739-4dd5-af86-4067944bba3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).