---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal property tax, tangible; list of uncollected balances."
description: "Expands the uncollected personal property tax on vehicles for which the treasurer is required to compile a list to include the personal property tax on trailers, semitrailers, watercraft, and manufactured homes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2455"
citation: "Virginia HB 2455 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal Property and Personal Property Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13c9253f-f7be-4e66-afce-df7f81bd5235"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2455"
source_hash: "b686ad203ff94506d9de459cc5677838e489309264bd63da9461fc78f01eea05"
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 2455 (2017) — Personal property tax, tangible; list of uncollected balances.

Expands the uncollected personal property tax on vehicles for which the treasurer is required to compile a list to include the personal property tax on trailers, semitrailers, watercraft, and manufactured homes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0440)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0440)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2455ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2455ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103957D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2455)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **18–4** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **86–10** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 17103957D `introduction`
- **2017-01-20** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** 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 440 (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/13c9253f-f7be-4e66-afce-df7f81bd5235`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).