---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business licenses; certain localities allowed to waive requirements."
description: "Business license waivers. Allows localities with a population greater than 50,000 to waive license requirements for businesses with gross receipts of $200,000 or less. Current law limits such waiver to businesses with gross receipts of less than $100,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 466"
citation: "Virginia HB 466 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee221427-bca8-4c2e-841f-0a87dd46b8e0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB466"
source_hash: "e78d06767b35728e3ec28aeaa9e74d24648b577d2295972d66fced4b1dd71d3f"
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 466 (2020) — Business licenses; certain localities allowed to waive requirements.

Business license waivers. Allows localities with a population greater than 50,000 to waive license requirements for businesses with gross receipts of $200,000 or less. Current law limits such waiver to businesses with gross receipts of less than $100,000.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0242)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB466ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB466ER)
3. **Impact statement from TAX (HB466)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB466)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N) — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance (20-Y 1-N) — **20–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102555D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-11** Impact statement from TAX (HB466)
- **2020-01-15** Reported from Finance (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-17** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-21** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-01-22** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from TAX (HB466ER)
- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 242 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee221427-bca8-4c2e-841f-0a87dd46b8e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).