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| Bill | Tangible personal property tax; establishes classification for electric landscaping equipment. | Tangible personal property tax; electric landscaping equipment. Establishes a separate classification of tangible personal property for electric-powered landscaping equipment employed in a trade or business and used to maintain commercial, public, or private gardens, lawns, trees, shrubs, or other plants, including lawn mowers, edgers, trimmers, leaf blowers, and chainsaws. Such property may be taxed by a locality at a rate not to exceed that applied to the general class of tangible personal property. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 557 | Virginia HB 557 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 557 (2026) — Tangible personal property tax; establishes classification for electric landscaping equipment.
Tangible personal property tax; electric landscaping equipment. Establishes a separate classification of tangible personal property for electric-powered landscaping equipment employed in a trade or business and used to maintain commercial, public, or private gardens, lawns, trees, shrubs, or other plants, including lawn mowers, edgers, trimmers, leaf blowers, and chainsaws. Such property may be taxed by a locality at a rate not to exceed that applied to the general class of tangible personal property.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 62–35 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — 9–4 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — 15–7 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–3 (pass) · lower
- Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Atoosa R. Reaser — primary (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100257D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Finance
referral-committee - 2026-01-19 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/19/2026 3:14 pm)
- 2026-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N)
- 2026-02-03 Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2026-02-04 Reported from Finance (15-Y 7-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-06 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-09 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2026-02-10 Read third time and passed House (62-Y 35-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-11 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2026-02-25 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 4-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 (HB557ER)
passage - 2026-03-06 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (3/6/2026 11:35 am)
- 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 - 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 403 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0403)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cfce10ec-b2c8-4f79-a3e3-baa7037b6586. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).