---
type: "Bill"
title: "Historic rehabilitation; limit on tax credit that may be claimed."
description: "Historic rehabilitation; limit on tax credit that may be claimed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2705"
citation: "Virginia HB 2705 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert S. Bloxom, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-02-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af41beae-1f23-4d93-8310-783ac1cbd2df"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2705"
source_hash: "1a502830961ceb9e3873f65a7d4e5ae082cafc398d02263e5cdca62d2ef58921"
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 2705 (2019) — Historic rehabilitation; limit on tax credit that may be claimed.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0025)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2705ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2705ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104391D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2705)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **94–2** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **25–15** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **20–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 19104391D `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 2-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled
- **2019-02-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-11** Signed by President
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
- **2019-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Approved by Governor-Chapter 25 (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/af41beae-1f23-4d93-8310-783ac1cbd2df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).