CHAPTER NUMBER: 156 
File Code: Taxes - Property
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 636  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Hixson, Heller, and Gordon
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Property Tax - Computer Software
 
Providing an exemption from valuation and property tax for computer
software, as defined, and related documentation; allowing the
governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant a certain
property tax credit on property tax imposed on computer software; and
providing that the exemption does not apply to embedded software, as
defined.
House Action
- 2/7
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 2/12
 - Hearing 2/27 at 11:00 a.m.
 - 3/18
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/19
 - Third Reading Passed (134-0)
 - 3/30
 - House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      House Requests Senate Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Healey, Finifter, McKee
 - 4/6
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (102-1)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 - 4/30
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 156
 
Senate Action
- 3/20
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
 - 4/1
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/2
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Hogan, Currie, Middleton
 - 4/6
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
 - Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
 - Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - ASSESSMENTS
 - COMPUTERS
 - COUNTIES
 - EXEMPTIONS
 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
 - PROPERTY TAX -see also- ASSESSMENTS
 - TAX CREDITS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Tax - Property
 - (
 7-238 ,
 9-227 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 395725/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1996     at: 16:48
 Status: Adopted         
 - Senate
 - Number: 288398/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 2, 1996      at: 12:37
 Status: Adopted