---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing, composite index."
description: "Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing, composite index."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1838"
citation: "Virginia HB 1838 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel W. Marshall, III"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-02"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b40f49ab-73ff-4025-9499-b587f47b6968"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1838"
source_hash: "7d34cf89c0b5a8b95eaf69e1475b64eb4ae03eecb6d57e031cefcea4f13084cd"
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 1838 (2019) — Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act; revenue sharing, composite index.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0534)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1838ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1838ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101266D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1838)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Local Government — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniel W. Marshall, III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101266D `introduction`
- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 534 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b40f49ab-73ff-4025-9499-b587f47b6968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).