---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land preservation tax credit; extends allowable time to claim credit."
description: "Land preservation tax credit; extends allowable time to claim credit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1816"
citation: "Virginia HB 1816 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Matthew Fariss"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-12-31"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9cfc7cf-b14a-4a7c-b7e2-1e37efb873f0"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1816"
source_hash: "fbd9f1cea407361ed8cd5c2387ff3a2f1f800b6bb659fb616f72f0f4fc9d42d5"
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 1816 (2019) — Land preservation tax credit; extends allowable time to claim credit.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0183)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0183)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1816ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1816ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19106299D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1816H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101586D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1816)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **20–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance with substitute — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **91–7** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Matthew Fariss — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-31** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101586D `introduction`
- **2018-12-31** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-17** Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- **2019-01-17** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19106299D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1816H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (91-Y 7-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled
- **2019-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-15** Signed by President
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 183 (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/a9cfc7cf-b14a-4a7c-b7e2-1e37efb873f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).