republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1455.md

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Bill	Real property tax; partial exemption for certain commercial and industrial structures.	Reduces from 20 years to 15 years the minimum age of a structure in a technology zone that is rehabilitated for commercial use that qualifies the rehabilitated structure for a partial exemption from real property taxes. Under current law, a 15-year age minimum applies only to structures located in an enterprise zone designated by the Commonwealth, and a 20-year age minimum applies in all other situations. The bill contains technical amendments.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1455	Virginia HB 1455 (2017)	bill	Real Estate and Real Estate Tax Taxation	enacted	R. Lee Ware	4	18	6	2016-12-05	2017-02-17	openstates	ocd-bill/7b69ba7d-b1b2-47eb-b5a5-73e1343ff216	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1455	653a38d0ab77e736027960675d34da9d3508ba056fea3aa5904147961a6ddd0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1455 (2017) — Real property tax; partial exemption for certain commercial and industrial structures.

Reduces from 20 years to 15 years the minimum age of a structure in a technology zone that is rehabilitated for commercial use that qualifies the rehabilitated structure for a partial exemption from real property taxes. Under current law, a 15-year age minimum applies only to structures located in an enterprise zone designated by the Commonwealth, and a 20-year age minimum applies in all other situations. The bill contains technical amendments.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1455ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101736D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17101736D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance with amendments — 21–1 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 99–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• R. Lee Ware — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101736D introduction
• 2016-12-05 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-11 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-25 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-01-25 Engrossed by House as amended HB1455E
• 2017-01-25 Printed as engrossed 17101736D-E
• 2017-01-26 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-27 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-09 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Enrolled
• 2017-02-13 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-13 Signed by President
• 2017-02-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
• 2017-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
• 2017-02-17 Approved by Governor-Chapter 24 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b69ba7d-b1b2-47eb-b5a5-73e1343ff216. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).