---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle registration; personal property tax relief."
description: "Vehicle registration; personal property taxrelief. Requires the application for vehicle registration toinclude any additional information necessary to determine if a vehicleis a qualifying vehicle for the purpose of personal property taxrelief. The bill requires vehicles held in a trust to be evaluated in the same manner as vehicles owned by a natural person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 693"
citation: "Virginia HB 693 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68fc5516-b858-4047-bb07-b374b5b56ad1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB693"
source_hash: "157be1c8489400ea64bf98259caf2a7e5d3eaee4857c2d10c2f8dda73d512d7f"
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 693 (2022) — Vehicle registration; personal property tax relief.

Vehicle registration; personal property taxrelief. Requires the application for vehicle registration toinclude any additional information necessary to determine if a vehicleis a qualifying vehicle for the purpose of personal property taxrelief. The bill requires vehicles held in a trust to be evaluated in the same manner as vehicles owned by a natural person.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0237** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0237)
2. **HB693ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB693ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102760D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB693)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102760D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB693)
- **2022-01-26** Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-02** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Enrolled
- **2022-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-28** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB693ER)
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 237 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68fc5516-b858-4047-bb07-b374b5b56ad1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).