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| Bill | Tourism improvement districts; transient occupancy tax in Arlington County. | Tourism improvement districts; administering nonprofits; county manager plan; transient occupancy tax. Allows tourism entities, defined in the bill, to enter into written agreements for the provision of professional services to an administering nonprofit that is under contract with a locality to administer or implement activities specified in a tourism improvement district plan. Current law does not permit such public-private partnerships in tourism improvement districts. The bill also requires a newly formed administering nonprofit's board of directors to be wholly composed of business owners and an existing administering nonprofit to create a committee of business owners to oversee the activities prescribed in the tourism improvement district plan. Finally, the bill permits any locality with the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to impose an additional transient occupancy tax of up to one percent. This bill is identical to SB 314. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 524 | Virginia HB 524 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 524 (2026) — Tourism improvement districts; transient occupancy tax in Arlington County.
Tourism improvement districts; administering nonprofits; county manager plan; transient occupancy tax. Allows tourism entities, defined in the bill, to enter into written agreements for the provision of professional services to an administering nonprofit that is under contract with a locality to administer or implement activities specified in a tourism improvement district plan. Current law does not permit such public-private partnerships in tourism improvement districts. The bill also requires a newly formed administering nonprofit's board of directors to be wholly composed of business owners and an existing administering nonprofit to create a committee of business owners to oversee the activities prescribed in the tourism improvement district plan. Finally, the bill permits any locality with the county manager plan of government (Arlington County) to impose an additional transient occupancy tax of up to one percent. This bill is identical to SB 314.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Delegate McClure Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — 17–4 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government — 8–7 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 67–28 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — 10–5 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Adele Y. McClure — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102965D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-01-17 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/17/2026 12:42 pm)
- 2026-01-28 Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2026-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2026-01-30 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (17-Y 4-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-04 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-05 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-06 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-09 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-10 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-11 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-12 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-13 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-16 Floor substitute printed 26108044D-H1 (McClure)
- 2026-02-16 Floor offered Delegate McClure Substitute
- 2026-02-16 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-16 Delegate McClure Floor substitute agreed to
substitution - 2026-02-16 Engrossed by House - floor substitute
- 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (68-Y 28-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2026-02-22 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (2/22/2026 8:38 pm)
- 2026-02-23 Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-25 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-26 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-26 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-27 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-27 Passed by for the day
- 2026-03-02 Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-06 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-06 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB524ER)
passage - 2026-03-06 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-06 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-03-11 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (3/11/2026 2:02 pm)
- 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 162 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0b6f834-5cc8-45ec-b13f-da39fe7273a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).