---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real property tax; assessment cycles by counties."
description: "General reassessment of real estate; intervalsfor certain counties. Allows any county with a total populationof 50,000 or less to elect by majority vote of its board of supervisorsto conduct its general reassessments of real estate at three-yearintervals. Under current law, such counties may only elect by majorityvote of their board of supervisors to conduct such reassessmentsat either five-year or six-year intervals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 951"
citation: "Virginia HB 951 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d3a7caa-d53b-45e9-9f45-9111d07ca6f5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB951"
source_hash: "579696845d751755394a59c5009f1f07c79aaa0983ba498271fc47a943561112"
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 951 (2022) — Real property tax; assessment cycles by counties.

General reassessment of real estate; intervalsfor certain counties. Allows any county with a total populationof 50,000 or less to elect by majority vote of its board of supervisorsto conduct its general reassessments of real estate at three-yearintervals. Under current law, such counties may only elect by majorityvote of their board of supervisors to conduct such reassessmentsat either five-year or six-year intervals.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0361** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0361)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106829D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB951S1)
3. **HB951ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB951ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101716D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB951)

## Votes

- Passed Senate with substitute (33-Y 7-N) — **33–7** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 10-N) — **88–9** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101716D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from TAX (HB951)
- **2022-01-24** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Committee substitute printed 22106829D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-24** Committee substitute agreed to 22106829D-S1
- **2022-02-24** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB951S1
- **2022-02-24** Passed Senate with substitute (33-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Senate substitute agreed to by House 22106829D-S1 (88-Y 10-N)
- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 10-N)
- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
- **2022-03-06** Impact statement from TAX (HB951ER)
- **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
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 361 (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/2d3a7caa-d53b-45e9-9f45-9111d07ca6f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).