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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tangible personal property taxes;classification of certain motor vehicles, trailers, & semitrailers."
+description: "Tangible personal property taxes; classificationof certain motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. Providesthat the separate class of property for rate purposes that includesmotor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers with a gross vehicle weightof 10,000 pounds or more used by a motor carrier engaged in interstatecommerce on a for-hire basis shall also include such vehicles usedto transport passengers. Under current law, this class of propertyonly includes such vehicles if they are used to transport property."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1774"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1774 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wendell S. Walker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2020-12-28"
+last_action: "2021-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e09877a0-05b2-43da-877f-30cef454f9ff"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1774"
+source_hash: "7ca0f184bb99ba3b4d973b2d9a8ce2e6e72aa33005bccb605baa7289757b4000"
+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 1774 (2021) — Tangible personal property taxes;classification of certain motor vehicles, trailers, & semitrailers.
+
+Tangible personal property taxes; classificationof certain motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. Providesthat the separate class of property for rate purposes that includesmotor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers with a gross vehicle weightof 10,000 pounds or more used by a motor carrier engaged in interstatecommerce on a for-hire basis shall also include such vehicles usedto transport passengers. Under current law, this class of propertyonly includes such vehicles if they are used to transport property.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0347** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0347)
+2. **HB1774ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1774ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100876D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1774)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wendell S. Walker — primary (person)
+- Bill D. Wiley — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100876D `introduction`
+- **2020-12-28** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-11** Impact statement from TAX (HB1774)
+- **2021-01-18** Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-19** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-21** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-21** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2021-01-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-01-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2021-01-22** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-16** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
+- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from TAX (HB1774ER)
+- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 347 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e09877a0-05b2-43da-877f-30cef454f9ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+