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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real estate taxes; clarifies when amount of taxes deferred pursuant to a local ordinance become due."
+description: "Clarifies when the amount of real estate taxes deferred pursuant to a local ordinance become due."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 228"
+citation: "Virginia SB 228 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Janet D. Howell"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-03"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56d237ca-45a4-44db-8323-4876e3dc9e17"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB228"
+source_hash: "b8515e8d8468e9643ce2518815be35a00eca675f580d74e4e4088086c54a63aa"
+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 228 (2018) — Real estate taxes; clarifies when amount of taxes deferred pursuant to a local ordinance become due.
+
+Clarifies when the amount of real estate taxes deferred pursuant to a local ordinance become due.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB228ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB228ER)
+2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103507D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB228)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Janet D. Howell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103507D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-03** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-29** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 291 (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/56d237ca-45a4-44db-8323-4876e3dc9e17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+