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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2076: Income tax, state; subtraction for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 2076 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Income tax, state; subtraction for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel. Primary sponsor: Tom Garrett (Republican). Most recent recorded action (February 4, 2025): Left in Finance.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Virginia taxable income; subtractions; volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services personnel. Provides a state income tax subtraction of $2,000 beginning in taxable year 2026 for bona fide volunteers who perform qualifying services, defined in the bill as volunteer firefighting and fire prevention services, emergency medical services, auxiliary police officer services, ambulance services, emergency rescue services, and all training and training-related activities required by law to perform such services.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Tom GarrettPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse56

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Finance
  2. Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N)
  3. Impact statement from TAX (HB2076)
  4. Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
  5. Referred to Committee on Finance
  6. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101798D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source