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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Merchants' capital tax; classification."
+description: "Merchants' capital tax; classification."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 119"
+citation: "Virginia HB 119 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxation", "Trade and Commerce"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert M. \"Bob\" Thomas, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-15"
+last_action: "2018-02-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fabd93b2-533c-424d-b364-89b33618bab9"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB119"
+source_hash: "4c2f6f3d85ee31acf5942d46e2d1de648bec91fc14b046b8b22b2d74646e1f2f"
+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 119 (2018) — Merchants' capital tax; classification.
+
+## 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?181+ful+CHAP0023)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB119ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB119ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101758D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB119)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **21–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **94–3** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — primary (person)
+- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-15** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101758D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-15** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-23** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
+- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 23 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fabd93b2-533c-424d-b364-89b33618bab9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+