---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal property tax; business property."
description: "Requires localities to permit taxpayers to provide an aggregate estimate of the total cost of all personal property used in a business that has an original cost of less than $500, in lieu of a specific, itemized list. Under current law, localities are permitted to allow taxpayers to provide such estimate of aggregate cost for property whose original cost is less than $250."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2193"
citation: "Virginia HB 2193 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Personal Property and Personal Property Tax", "Taxation", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c74c49f4-166a-480f-b679-d0564357af6a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2193"
source_hash: "9a647d07ba284beacc2b90967553043289e0200fb4f05bcf47c429e79facd65d"
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 2193 (2017) — Personal property tax; business property.

Requires localities to permit taxpayers to provide an aggregate estimate of the total cost of all personal property used in a business that has an original cost of less than $500, in lieu of a specific, itemized list. Under current law, localities are permitted to allow taxpayers to provide such estimate of aggregate cost for property whose original cost is less than $250.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0116)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0116)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2193ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2193ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100521D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2193)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nick Rush — primary (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100521D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `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 116 (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/c74c49f4-166a-480f-b679-d0564357af6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).