SB314
Tourism improvement districts; transient occupancy tax in Arlington County.
Status:
In Senate
Latest Action:
Feb. 5, 2026
Senate: Passed by for the day
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Tourism improvement districts; transient occupancy tax; Arlington County.
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 raises Arlington County's permissible additional transient occupancy tax from a maximum rate of one-fourth of one percent to one percent. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2026 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103075D
- 01/13/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 01/20/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/20/2026 12:09 pm)
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Reported from Local Government and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)
- 01/26/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/03/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 02/05/2026 - Senate: Floor substitute printed 26107288D-S1 (Ebbin)
- 02/05/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day
