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VA HB753

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/13/2026

Primary Sponsor

Chris Runion

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Origin

House of Delegates

2026 Regular Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires Virginia's composite index of local ability-to-pay for public school funding to use the agricultural "use value" rather than fair market value for qualifying real estate
  • Applies to land devoted to agricultural, horticultural, forest, and open-space uses in localities that have adopted use-value taxation ordinances
  • Extends the use-value calculation to real estate in agricultural districts, forestal districts, and agricultural and forestal districts established under state law
  • Would lower the assessed property values used to calculate local wealth, potentially increasing state funding shares for rural localities with significant farmland and forestland
  • Adds new section 22.1-98.3 to the Code of Virginia; introduced January 14, 2026 by Delegate Runion

Legislative Description

Public school funding; composite index of local ability-to-pay.

Last Action

Left in Education

2/18/2026

Committee Referrals

Education2/18/2026
Education: K-121/30/2026
Education1/13/2026

Full Bill Text

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