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type: "Bill"
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title: "Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, eligible housing areas."
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description: "Expands the definition of \"eligible housing area\" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include census tracts in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area in which less than 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to such areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 1681"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1681 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Housing", "Income Tax", "Taxation"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jerrauld C. \"Jay\" Jones"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2018-12-05"
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last_action: "2019-02-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adc9344d-bd8f-4da1-8a1a-89aa83841d1f"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1681"
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source_hash: "557e2f61d2e85bd08655af0682616503e157515f3e6d7a6e83ff5862096fcdc5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1681 (2019) — Income tax, state; housing choice vouchers, eligible housing areas.
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Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for purposes of the housing choice voucher tax credit to include census tracts in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News Metropolitan Statistical Area in which less than 10 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. Landlords who rent qualified housing units within such areas are eligible for an income tax credit. Current law only applies to such areas within the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0019)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0019)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1681ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1681ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101630D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1681)
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## Votes
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Finance — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Finance — **20–2** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House — **87–8** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — primary (person)
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- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-12-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101630D `introduction`
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- **2018-12-05** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-16** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-18** Read third time and passed House (87-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-01-21** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-07** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-11** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-11** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-11** Signed by President
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- **2019-02-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
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- **2019-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
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- **2019-02-15** Approved by Governor-Chapter 19 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/adc9344d-bd8f-4da1-8a1a-89aa83841d1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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