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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicle sales and use tax; abandoned vehicles not sold at auction."
+description: "Motor vehicle sales and use tax; abandoned vehicles not sold at auction. Clarifies the basis by which the motor vehicle sales and use tax is calculated in cases where a person is applying for a title to an abandoned motor vehicle that is in their possession and did not sell at auction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1841"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1841 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Wyatt"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-06"
+last_action: "2025-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/134ca88e-e089-4beb-84e0-574143f2aa95"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1841"
+source_hash: "a0a2e9e284104b0b50568bc5b52da40dda4942586571098826b87700b01010a4"
+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 1841 (2025) — Motor vehicle sales and use tax; abandoned vehicles not sold at auction.
+
+Motor vehicle sales and use tax; abandoned vehicles not sold at auction. Clarifies the basis by which the motor vehicle sales and use tax is calculated in cases where a person is applying for a title to an abandoned motor vehicle that is in their possession and did not sell at auction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013440.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071158.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050068.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Scott A. Wyatt — primary (person)
+- David Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100633D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-13** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1841)
+- **2025-01-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-20** Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-24** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-01-27** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-11** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1841ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1841)
+- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 80 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0080)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/134ca88e-e089-4beb-84e0-574143f2aa95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+