---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate with delinquent taxes or liens; appointment of special commissioner, etc."
description: "Increases the required assessed value of property for the purpose of a locality appointing a special commissioner to convey property with delinquent taxes or liens to the locality in lieu of sale at public auction (i) from $100,000 to $150,000 in Norfolk, Richmond, Hopewell, Newport News, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, and Hampton and (ii) from $50,000 to $75,000 in all other localities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2060"
citation: "Virginia HB 2060 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6722703a-3e25-472e-b17d-fe449f83dc99"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2060"
source_hash: "72148d2d4f46c75329bf957d903bb383944efcf3ebc84fb0eafcb4b262ba52e7"
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 2060 (2019) — Real estate with delinquent taxes or liens; appointment of special commissioner, etc.

Increases the required assessed value of property for the purpose of a locality appointing a special commissioner to convey property with delinquent taxes or liens to the locality in lieu of sale at public auction (i) from $100,000 to $150,000 in Norfolk, Richmond, Hopewell, Newport News, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, and Hampton and (ii) from $50,000 to $75,000 in all other localities.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0541)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2060ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2060ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101861D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2060)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2060ASE)

## Votes

- Senate insisted on amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendments rejected by House — **0–98** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **33–6** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance with amendments — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **80–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101861D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** 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 and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House (80-Y 17-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 amendments waived
- **2019-02-08** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-12** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Senate amendments rejected by House (0-Y 98-N 1-A)
- **2019-02-14** Senate requested conference committee
- **2019-02-15** House acceded to request
- **2019-02-15** Conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-19** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-21** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-21** Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 5-N)
- **2019-02-22** Passed by temporarily
- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 541 (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/6722703a-3e25-472e-b17d-fe449f83dc99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).