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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 HB 524. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 314 | Virginia SB 314 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 314 (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 HB 524.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Senator Ebbin Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Passage R — 21–19 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 67–30 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — 16–5 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — 10–5 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reconsider R — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reconsider R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 20–18 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 23–17 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government — 9–5 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103075D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Local Government
referral-committee - 2026-01-20 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/20/2026 12:09 pm)
- 2026-01-26 Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-03 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-04 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-04 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-05 Floor offered Senator Ebbin Substitute
- 2026-02-05 Floor substitute printed 26107288D-S1 (Ebbin)
- 2026-02-05 Read second time
reading-2 - 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 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-10 Floor substitute printed 26107689D-S2 (Ebbin)
- 2026-02-10 Floor offered Senator Ebbin Substitute
- 2026-02-10 Substitute #1 by Senator Ebbin withdrawn
withdrawal - 2026-02-10 Reading of substitute waived (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-10 Senator Ebbin Substitute agreed to
- 2026-02-10 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-11 Read third time and defeated by Senate (20-Y 18-N 0-A)
failure, reading-3 - 2026-02-11 Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate
- 2026-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-11 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate
- 2026-02-11 Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-17 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-17 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-17 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
referral-committee - 2026-02-17 Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (2/17/2026 4:12 pm)
- 2026-02-20 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (16-Y 5-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-25 Passed House (67-Y 30-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-27 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-02-27 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB314ER)
passage - 2026-02-27 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-02-27 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 3:20 pm)
- 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 163 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/084775ef-d918-4966-8948-b5dd35e32943. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).