SB314
Tourism improvement districts; transient occupancy tax in Arlington County.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
March 11, 2026
Senate: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (3/11/2026 3:20 pm)
Chief Patron:
Adam Ebbin (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 - 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
- 02/06/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Floor substitute printed 26107689D-S2 (Ebbin)
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Substitute #1 by Senator Ebbin withdrawn
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived (Voice Vote)
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Senator Ebbin Substitute agreed to
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute (Voice Vote)
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (20-Y 18-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N 0-A)
- 02/17/2026 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/17/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/17/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 02/17/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (2/17/2026 4:12 pm)
- 02/18/2026 - House: Placed on Counties, Cities and Towns Agenda
- 02/20/2026 - House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (16-Y 5-N)
- 02/24/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/25/2026 - House: Read third time
- 02/25/2026 - House: Passed House (67-Y 30-N 0-A)
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB314ER)
- 02/27/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/2026 - Senate: 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 - Senate: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (3/11/2026 3:20 pm)
