---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren Counties authorized to impose."
description: "Adds the Counties of Goochland, Powhatan,"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1415"
citation: "Virginia HB 1415 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-10-11"
last_action: "2017-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8b8b727-8641-4549-af1e-e4d8c5148998"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1415"
source_hash: "3d70d6a9e6391bdb5ef3edb65abef7874b98140b52b91082c7302c8bd9c8051f"
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 1415 (2017) — Transient occupancy tax; Goochland, Powhatan, and Warren Counties authorized to impose.

Adds the Counties of Goochland, Powhatan,

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0023)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1415ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1415ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100691D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1415)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17100691D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1415E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **30–9** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **13–2** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–3** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance with amendments — **13–9** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **72–27** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-10-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100691D `introduction`
- **2016-10-11** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-11** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-25** Amendments by Delegate Ware agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2017-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB1415E
- **2017-01-25** Printed as engrossed 17100691D-E
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (72-Y 27-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Enrolled
- **2017-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
- **2017-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
- **2017-02-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 23 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8b8b727-8641-4549-af1e-e4d8c5148998`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).