republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1202.md

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Bill	Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning, provisions are declaratory of existing law.	Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning; emergency. Clarifies existing law in that institutions licensed by the Department of Education that provide services pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or any school that is licensed by the Board of Education as a school for students with disabilities are institutions of learning not conducted for profit whose property is exempt from taxation pursuant to the Constitution of Virginia. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to HB 1970.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1202	Virginia SB 1202 (2025)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	9	54	12	2025-01-08	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/8f78322c-a5e8-4888-a2ac-87f3782f7e3d	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1202	69b9ce8199124772c249b1d8ceff9d4451a4a2923eea23b74c212d9531e643aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1202 (2025) — Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning, provisions are declaratory of existing law.

Tax exempt property; nonprofit institutions of learning; emergency. Clarifies existing law in that institutions licensed by the Department of Education that provide services pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or any school that is licensed by the Board of Education as a school for students with disabilities are institutions of learning not conducted for profit whose property is exempt from taxation pursuant to the Constitution of Virginia. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to HB 1970.

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. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Finance Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Finance and Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
8. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (94-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 36-N) — 2–36 (fail) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; Offered 01-08-2025 25104443D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-18 Impact statement from TAX (SB1202)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 2025-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-01-31 Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-01-31 Printed as engrossed 25104443D-E
• 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-31 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-06 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-06 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Impact statement from TAX (SB1202)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Finance with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107134D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Finance Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-13 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-13 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 36-N)
• 2025-02-18 House insisted on substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 House requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-19 Senators: Deeds, Hashmi, Obenshain
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-20 Delegates: Watts, Laufer, Walker
• 2025-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1202ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Impact statement from TAX (SB1202)
• 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
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (94-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (SB1202ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 620 (Effective 04/02/2025) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0620)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8f78322c-a5e8-4888-a2ac-87f3782f7e3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).