---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax assessment districts; establishes, petition by parcel owners."
description: "Tax assessment districts; petition by parcelowners. Changes the threshold for petitioning a city or townfor establishment of a tax assessment district from not less thanthree-fourths of the landowners affected to the owners of not lessthan three-fourths of the parcels affected."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1211"
citation: "Virginia HB 1211 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6859d9ad-42ea-4163-ae1f-864d154c9a6e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1211"
source_hash: "cb9b30c9eba2a1117217289005eaab1618a3fea74c1057d565dee5b3a5a2c7b2"
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 1211 (2024) — Tax assessment districts; establishes, petition by parcel owners.

Tax assessment districts; petition by parcelowners. Changes the threshold for petitioning a city or townfor establishment of a tax assessment district from not less thanthree-fourths of the landowners affected to the owners of not lessthan three-fourths of the parcels affected.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0740** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0740)
2. **HB1211ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1211ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101006D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1211)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (78-Y 20-N) — **77–20** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (11-Y 4-N) — **11–4** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (28-Y 11-N) — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (23-Y 16-N) — **23–16** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (15-Y 5-N) — **15–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101006D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from TAX (HB1211)
- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
- **2024-01-26** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (15-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Read third time and passed House (78-Y 20-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** VOTE: Passage (78-Y 20-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-02** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Reported from Local Government (11-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed Senate (28-Y 11-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-28** Passed Senate (23-Y 16-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-05** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1211ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Impact statement from TAX (HB1211ER)
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 740 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0740)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6859d9ad-42ea-4163-ae1f-864d154c9a6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).