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type: "Bill"
title: "Certified pollution control equipment and facilities; tax exemption, timing of certification."
description: "Tax exemption for certified pollution control equipment and facilities; timing of certification by the state certifying authority. Provides that, upon the request of a political subdivision, the state certifying authority having jurisdiction shall certify the tax-exempt status of certain pollution control equipment and facilities on a prospective basis. The property eligible for such treatment shall be equipment and facilities intended for use by a political subdivision in conjunction with the operation of its water, wastewater, stormwater, or solid waste management facilities or systems. This bill is identical to SB 685."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1173"
citation: "Virginia HB 1173 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alfonso H. Lopez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4393b3a2-9c0a-4fa4-a2dc-7b6f07f54a0d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1173"
source_hash: "de98b105f615d767535030a9d99379761d13518011ddf35e71f676d504ae0716"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1173 (2020) — Certified pollution control equipment and facilities; tax exemption, timing of certification.
Tax exemption for certified pollution control equipment and facilities; timing of certification by the state certifying authority. Provides that, upon the request of a political subdivision, the state certifying authority having jurisdiction shall certify the tax-exempt status of certain pollution control equipment and facilities on a prospective basis. The property eligible for such treatment shall be equipment and facilities intended for use by a political subdivision in conjunction with the operation of its water, wastewater, stormwater, or solid waste management facilities or systems. This bill is identical to SB 685.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0252)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1173ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1173ER)
3. **Impact statement from TAX (HB1173)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1173)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (91-Y 6-N) — **906** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 0-N) — **110** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance (20-Y 1-N) — **201** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103437D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-19** Impact statement from TAX (HB1173)
- **2020-01-23** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Finance (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House (91-Y 6-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Passage (91-Y 6-N)
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from TAX (HB1173ER)
- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 252 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4393b3a2-9c0a-4fa4-a2dc-7b6f07f54a0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).