republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1565.md

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Bill	Local tax and regulatory incentives; green development zones.	Authorizes localities to create green development zones that provide certain tax incentives and regulatory flexibility for up to 10 years to a business operating in an energy-efficient building or to a business that produces products used to reduce negative impact on the environment.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1565	Virginia HB 1565 (2017)	bill	Conservation Counties Cities and Towns Taxation	enacted	Michael J. Webert	4	19	6	2017-01-01	2017-02-17	openstates	ocd-bill/7652e87c-40e1-44cc-9143-37cfb1ad0a97	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1565	f0e0db95e49f27de80d0aaf2cf7a5eaf23d93578f46804cd8e05eb33f9e11f34	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1565 (2017) — Local tax and regulatory incentives; green development zones.

Authorizes localities to create green development zones that provide certain tax incentives and regulatory flexibility for up to 10 years to a business operating in an energy-efficient building or to a business that produces products used to reduce negative impact on the environment.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1565ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100063D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17100063D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–2 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 33–6 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 19–3 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 79–20 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100063D introduction
• 2017-01-01 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-13 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 Amendment by Delegate Webert agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-01-25 Engrossed by House as amended HB1565E
• 2017-01-25 Printed as engrossed 17100063D-E
• 2017-01-26 Read third time and passed House (79-Y 20-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
• 2017-02-09 Passed by temporarily
• 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 27 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7652e87c-40e1-44cc-9143-37cfb1ad0a97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).