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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren Counties authorized to impose."
+description: "Adds the Counties of Goochland, Powhatan,"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1415"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1415 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-10-11"
+last_action: "2017-02-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8b8b727-8641-4549-af1e-e4d8c5148998"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1415"
+source_hash: "3d70d6a9e6391bdb5ef3edb65abef7874b98140b52b91082c7302c8bd9c8051f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1415 (2017) — Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren Counties authorized to impose.
+
+Adds the Counties of Goochland, Powhatan,
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0023)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1415ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1415ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100691D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1415)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17100691D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1415E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **30–9** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **13–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–3** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance with amendments — **13–9** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **72–27** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-10-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100691D `introduction`
+- **2016-10-11** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-11** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-25** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2017-01-25** Amendments by Delegate Ware agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB1415E
+- **2017-01-25** Printed as engrossed 17100691D-E
+- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (72-Y 27-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-09** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-13** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-13** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
+- **2017-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
+- **2017-02-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 23 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8b8b727-8641-4549-af1e-e4d8c5148998`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+