---
type: "Bill"
title: "Derelict and blighted buildings; land banks, receivership."
description: "Authorizes a locality to petition the circuit court to appoint a land bank entity to act as a receiver in certain limited circumstances to repair derelict and blighted buildings that contain residential dwelling units."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1936"
citation: "Virginia HB 1936 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Courts of Record"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f221159-2ee8-4fc1-bd80-b5f952eb67a4"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1936"
source_hash: "c9c5a5bdb97907a03571baacfdd3a18c1bc1eba81f329ad1f1144d43590b4d69"
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 1936 (2017) — Derelict and blighted buildings; land banks, receivership.

Authorizes a locality to petition the circuit court to appoint a land bank entity to act as a receiver in certain limited circumstances to repair derelict and blighted buildings that contain residential dwelling units.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0381)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1936ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1936ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102899D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1936)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **96–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **13–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102899D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 381 (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/0f221159-2ee8-4fc1-bd80-b5f952eb67a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).