HB524
Tourism improvement districts; transient occupancy tax in Arlington County.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
March 11, 2026
House: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (3/11/2026 2:02 pm)
Chief Patron:
Adele McClure (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102965D
- 01/13/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 01/17/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/17/2026 12:42 pm)
- 01/28/2026 - House: Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/28/2026 - House: Placed on Counties, Cities and Towns Agenda
- 01/29/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2026 - House: Placed on Counties, Cities and Towns Agenda
- 01/30/2026 - House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (17-Y 4-N)
- 02/03/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/05/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/10/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/11/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/12/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/13/2026 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/16/2026 - House: Floor substitute printed 26108044D-H1 (McClure)
- 02/16/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/16/2026 - House: Delegate McClure Floor substitute agreed to
- 02/16/2026 - House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute
- 02/17/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (68-Y 28-N 0-A)
- 02/18/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/18/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 02/22/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (2/22/2026 8:38 pm)
- 02/23/2026 - Senate: Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/23/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/25/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/26/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/26/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/26/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 03/06/2026 - House: Enrolled
- 03/06/2026 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB524ER)
- 03/06/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/2026 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
- 03/10/2026 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
- 03/11/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (3/11/2026 2:02 pm)
