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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real estate; delinquent taxes or liens, appointment of special commissioner, City of Martinsville."
+description: "Adds Martinsville to the list of cities with different requirements for the appointment of a special commissioner to execute the necessary deed to convey property with delinquent taxes or liens to the locality in lieu of a sale at public auction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2405"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2405 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-02-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7e7ff4c-0cbc-4036-9162-e9d6cc2e142f"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2405"
+source_hash: "dab913766dd6166142528566934c40f5426f0ff14baeed748a1c59e25a396481"
+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 2405 (2019) — Real estate; delinquent taxes or liens, appointment of special commissioner, City of Martinsville.
+
+Adds Martinsville to the list of cities with different requirements for the appointment of a special commissioner to execute the necessary deed to convey property with delinquent taxes or liens to the locality in lieu of a sale at public auction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0159)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0159)
+2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2405AH)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2405ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2405ER)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102751D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2405)
+5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102751D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2405E)
+6. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2405ASE)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–1** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance with amendment — **20–2** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance with amendment — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate with amendment — **35–4** (pass) · upper
+- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **93–6** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House — **88–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Les R. Adams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102751D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-15** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2019-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB2405E
+- **2019-01-24** Printed as engrossed 19102751D-E
+- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House (88-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-08** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2019-02-08** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2019-02-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2019-02-12** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-02-12** Senate amendment agreed to by House (93-Y 6-N)
+- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
+- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 159 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7e7ff4c-0cbc-4036-9162-e9d6cc2e142f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+