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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real property tax; Bedford County authorized to perform general reassessment."
+description: "Authorizes Bedford County to perform a general reassessment of real property every five or six years instead of every four years."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 124"
+citation: "Virginia HB 124 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-18"
+last_action: "2018-02-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a880485-8f3d-4178-b636-18355393ef36"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB124"
+source_hash: "7102cb7b860bcb6c035e642a345a35840f8be3d29d534b78bad8811f1a5b5cf7"
+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 124 (2018) — Real property tax; Bedford County authorized to perform general reassessment.
+
+Authorizes Bedford County to perform a general reassessment of real property every five or six years instead of every four years.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0024)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB124ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB124ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101634D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB124)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101634D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-18** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-16** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-29** 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 24 (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/6a880485-8f3d-4178-b636-18355393ef36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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