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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real property tax; exemption for single member limited liability company."
+description: "Specifies that a single member limited liability company whose sole member is a nonprofit organization is eligible to be considered for a property exemption by a locality the same as other nonprofit organizations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 894"
+citation: "Virginia HB 894 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Charitable", "Civic and Volunteer Institutions and Organizations", "Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-02-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6a081e6-ad78-4601-9225-fd0a6cdc0315"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB894"
+source_hash: "06bf590eaa823f0a738faacbcee1ab1129e8107eb017de84c27cc0a7552163a4"
+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 894 (2018) — Real property tax; exemption for single member limited liability company.
+
+Specifies that a single member limited liability company whose sole member is a nonprofit organization is eligible to be considered for a property exemption by a locality the same as other nonprofit organizations.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0029)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB894ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB894ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103297D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB894)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103297D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** 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 BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-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`
+- **2018-02-16** Passed Senate (38-Y 0--N) `passage`
+- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 29 (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/a6a081e6-ad78-4601-9225-fd0a6cdc0315`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+