republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2246.md

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Bill	Virginia Tax Amnesty Program; established.	Establishes the Virginia Tax Amnesty Program to be administered by the Department of Taxation (the Department) during the 2017-2018 fiscal year for not less than 60 nor more than 75 days, as determined by the Tax Commissioner. The Program will be open to any taxpayer that is required but has failed to file a return or to pay any tax administered by the Department. All civil or criminal penalties assessed or assessable and one-half of the interest assessed or assessable, resulting from nonpayment, underpayment, nonreporting, or underreporting of tax liabilities, will be waived upon payment of the taxes and interest. For purposes of implementing the Program, the Department is exempt from the project management and procurement oversight of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2246	Virginia HB 2246 (2017)	bill	Taxation	enacted	S. Chris Jones	3	15	6	2017-01-11	2017-02-20	openstates	ocd-bill/a13aa22e-c7ed-4a0b-b9c4-0929bd68df2a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2246	b0a25852480d84d528ae6ae315fd72afe46653bc1491360175438dc630623140	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2246 (2017) — Virginia Tax Amnesty Program; established.

Establishes the Virginia Tax Amnesty Program to be administered by the Department of Taxation (the Department) during the 2017-2018 fiscal year for not less than 60 nor more than 75 days, as determined by the Tax Commissioner. The Program will be open to any taxpayer that is required but has failed to file a return or to pay any tax administered by the Department. All civil or criminal penalties assessed or assessable and one-half of the interest assessed or assessable, resulting from nonpayment, underpayment, nonreporting, or underreporting of tax liabilities, will be waived upon payment of the taxes and interest. For purposes of implementing the Program, the Department is exempt from the project management and procurement oversight of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2246ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101767D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House — 94–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 21–1 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–1 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 14–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• S. Chris Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101767D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-02 Read third time and passed House (94-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-14 Enrolled
• 2017-02-14 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-15 Signed by President
• 2017-02-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
• 2017-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
• 2017-02-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 53 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a13aa22e-c7ed-4a0b-b9c4-0929bd68df2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).