Virginia HB 1390: Food and beverage tax; counties to enact ordinances providing that bonds shall be paid from revenue.

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18104922D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1390 

Offered January 15, 2018 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 24.2-684 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to bond referenda; authorizing localities to make bond 
 issuance contingent on enactment of a food and beverage tax. 
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Patron-- Aird 

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Referred to Committee on Finance 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 24.2-684 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:

� 24.2-684. How referendum elections called and held, and the 
 results ascertained and certified; referenda for bond issuance and repayment 
 from county food and beverage tax.

A. Notwithstanding 
 any other provision of any law or charter to the contrary, the provisions of 
 this section shall govern all referenda.

No referendum shall be placed on the ballot unless 
 specifically authorized by statute or by charter.

Whenever any question is to be submitted to the voters of any 
 county, city, town, or other local subdivision, the referendum shall in every 
 case be held pursuant to a court order as provided in this section. The court 
 order calling a referendum shall state the question to appear on the ballot in 
 plain English as that term is defined in � 24.2-687. The order shall be entered 
 and the election held within a reasonable period of time subsequent to the 
 receipt of the request for the referendum if the request is found to be in 
 proper order. The court order shall set the date for the referendum in 
 conformity with the requirements of � 24.2-682.

A copy of the court order calling a referendum shall be sent 
 immediately to the State Board by the clerk of the court in which the order was 
 issued.

The ballot shall be prepared by the appropriate general 
 registrar and distributed to the appropriate precincts. On the day fixed for 
 the referendum, the regular election officers shall open the polls and take the 
 sense of the qualified voters of the county, city, town, or other local 
 subdivision, as the case may be, on the question so submitted. The ballots for 
 use at any such election shall be printed to state the question as follows:

"(Here state briefly the question submitted)

[ ] Yes

[ ] No"

The ballots shall be printed, marked, and counted and returns 
 made and canvassed as in other elections. The results shall be certified by the 
 secretary of the appropriate electoral board to the State Board, to the court 
 ordering the election, and to such other authority as may be proper to 
 accomplish the purpose of the election.

B. For 
 a referendum held for the purpose of approving a county food and beverage tax, 
 as authorized by � 58.1-3833, if a county adopts 
 an ordinance or resolution pursuant to � 
 15.2-2607 providing for the payment