---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cigarette tax, local; refund of returned tax stamps."
description: "Cigarette tax, local; refund of returned tax stamps."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1950"
citation: "Virginia HB 1950 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Taxation", "Tobacco and Tobacco Products"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher K. Peace"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca1021ec-2b24-40d2-83b1-7a283774c7d9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1950"
source_hash: "187f8b7f3807d1df7af1452133fcfc6921019c1e203919070a6ef0ade791d500"
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 1950 (2017) — Cigarette tax, local; refund of returned tax stamps.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0113)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0113)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1950ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1950ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101196D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1950)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Christopher K. Peace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101196D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled
- **2017-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-15** Signed by President
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
- **2017-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 113 (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/ca1021ec-2b24-40d2-83b1-7a283774c7d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).