---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency."
description: "Advances conformity with the federal tax code to December 31, 2016. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1521"
citation: "Virginia HB 1521 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-12-22"
last_action: "2017-02-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7de97ede-57b1-42e2-84a7-0ad7df3f8b17"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1521"
source_hash: "c8f68c8507ef70952d54ce57567813fb129318e5c566e4ed77280590d985c0ac"
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 1521 (2017) — Commonwealth's tax code; conformity with federal law; emergency.

Advances conformity with the federal tax code to December 31, 2016. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0001)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0001)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1521ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1521ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101386D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1521)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101386D `introduction`
- **2016-12-22** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-19** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-20** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-01-30** Enrolled
- **2017-01-30** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-01-30** Signed by President
- **2017-01-31** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 1/31/17
- **2017-01-31** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 7, 2017
- **2017-02-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1 (effective 2/3/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7de97ede-57b1-42e2-84a7-0ad7df3f8b17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).