---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax return; notification of data breach, taxpayer identity information."
description: "Requires paid income tax return preparers to notify the Department of Taxation within a reasonable time period if they discover that an unauthorized person has accessed a taxpayer's return information. The bill defines return information and provides that it does not include publicly available information. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "Virginia HB 183 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hala S. Ayala"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-12-26"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb1f2153-88c4-4ba4-a802-54c9e734fa7f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB183"
source_hash: "b184f390e64ea9bf972f16d36979f5a58888a9587a1c92bb0a49e9dba553a85f"
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 183 (2018) — Income tax return; notification of data breach, taxpayer identity information.

Requires paid income tax return preparers to notify the Department of Taxation within a reasonable time period if they discover that an unauthorized person has accessed a taxpayer's return information. The bill defines return information and provides that it does not include publicly available information. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB183ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB183ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105269D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB183H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101790D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB183)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **17–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hala S. Ayala — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- Cheryl B. Turpin — cosponsor (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-26** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101790D `introduction`
- **2017-12-26** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Referred from Finance by voice vote
- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 18105269D-H1
- **2018-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB183H1
- **2018-02-13** Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 283 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb1f2153-88c4-4ba4-a802-54c9e734fa7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).