---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate; delinquent taxes or liens, appointment of special commissioner, City of Martinsville."
description: "Adds Martinsville to the list of cities with different requirements for the appointment of a special commissioner to execute the necessary deed to convey property with delinquent taxes or liens to the locality in lieu of a sale at public auction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2405"
citation: "Virginia HB 2405 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7e7ff4c-0cbc-4036-9162-e9d6cc2e142f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2405"
source_hash: "dab913766dd6166142528566934c40f5426f0ff14baeed748a1c59e25a396481"
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 2405 (2019) — Real estate; delinquent taxes or liens, appointment of special commissioner, City of Martinsville.

Adds Martinsville to the list of cities with different requirements for the appointment of a special commissioner to execute the necessary deed to convey property with delinquent taxes or liens to the locality in lieu of a sale at public auction.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0159)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0159)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2405AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2405ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2405ER)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102751D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2405)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102751D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2405E)
6. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2405ASE)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance with amendment — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance with amendment — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment — **35–4** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **88–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Les R. Adams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102751D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB2405E
- **2019-01-24** Printed as engrossed 19102751D-E
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House (88-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-08** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-08** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-12** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Senate amendment agreed to by House (93-Y 6-N)
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 159 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7e7ff4c-0cbc-4036-9162-e9d6cc2e142f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).