---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telework expenses; advances expiration of tax credit."
description: "Telework expenses; advances expiration of tax credit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2065"
citation: "Virginia HB 2065 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-02-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c10d7c-429e-4c58-b5b4-cb2e9725c097"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2065"
source_hash: "7c3cb8da4d6bc88b3afd77050c657c41b0ac35a0f17d76d8b3b61516be8219a3"
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 2065 (2019) — Telework expenses; advances expiration of tax credit.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0021)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2065ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2065ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101540D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2065)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **33–7** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **69–26** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **12–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **16–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101540D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-18** Read third time and passed House (69-Y 26-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-21** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** 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 21 (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/73c10d7c-429e-4c58-b5b4-cb2e9725c097`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).