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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural best management practices; extends sunset date."
description: "Agricultural best management practices taxcredit; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individualand corporate agricultural best management practices tax credit fromJanuary 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 297"
citation: "Virginia SB 297 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timmy F. French"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c212d83-1563-4611-84ce-dba275ab4229"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB297"
source_hash: "eaf06c4c6e079d04aa9c2b8ac079c02f62499440fa33bbffd6a357ce3c27037e"
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 SB 297 (2024) — Agricultural best management practices; extends sunset date.
Agricultural best management practices taxcredit; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individualand corporate agricultural best management practices tax credit fromJanuary 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0233** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0233)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102308D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB297)
3. **SB297ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB297ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Timmy F. French — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102308D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Impact statement from TAX (SB297)
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y -0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-27** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB297ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from TAX (SB297ER)
- **2024-02-27** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 233 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0233)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c212d83-1563-4611-84ce-dba275ab4229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).