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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Commercial fishing vessels; classifies vessels as a separate class of property."
+description: "Classifies commercial fishing vessels and property permanently attached to such vessels as a separate class of property for the purpose of local personal property tax."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 1205"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1205 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters", "Personal Property and Personal Property Tax", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/906b9b76-8e8c-4a97-9691-decdb69066b6"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1205"
+source_hash: "f791798c762c29bf30a59db8e4aa866d4d9d93335893b32cbde14f14a03a47ca"
+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 SB 1205 (2017) — Commercial fishing vessels; classifies vessels as a separate class of property.
+
+Classifies commercial fishing vessels and property permanently attached to such vessels as a separate class of property for the purpose of local personal property tax.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0447)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1205ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1205ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103826D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1205)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103826D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-15** Passed House (97-Y 1-N 1-A) `passage`
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
+- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 447 (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/906b9b76-8e8c-4a97-9691-decdb69066b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+