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type: "Bill"
title: "Charitable gaming; prohibited practices."
description: "Increases from one to three the number of times per calendar year that a qualified organization qualified as a tax-exempt organization pursuant to § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code may conduct a raffle for a prize consisting of a lot improved by a residential dwelling where 100 percent of the moneys received from such a raffle, less deductions for the fair market value for the cost of acquisition of the land and materials, are donated to lawful religious, charitable, community, or educational organizations specifically chartered or organized under the laws of the Commonwealth and qualified as a § 501(c) tax-exempt organization. The bill also provides that no more than one such raffle shall be conducted in any one geographical region of the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2374"
citation: "Virginia HB 2374 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Gambling", "Lotteries", "Etc.", "Tax Exempt Organizations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-16"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63aff724-5856-4169-b33e-49a2df05cf00"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2374"
source_hash: "00f7b4312ea49c9aa73ae8644b6d57dc4088177d5887fa9886a32c080287661e"
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 2374 (2017) — Charitable gaming; prohibited practices.
Increases from one to three the number of times per calendar year that a qualified organization qualified as a tax-exempt organization pursuant to § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code may conduct a raffle for a prize consisting of a lot improved by a residential dwelling where 100 percent of the moneys received from such a raffle, less deductions for the fair market value for the cost of acquisition of the land and materials, are donated to lawful religious, charitable, community, or educational organizations specifically chartered or organized under the laws of the Commonwealth and qualified as a § 501(c) tax-exempt organization. The bill also provides that no more than one such raffle shall be conducted in any one geographical region of the Commonwealth.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0566)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0566)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2374ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2374ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104571D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2374H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17104324D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2374)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 17104324D `introduction`
- **2017-01-16** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 17104571D-H1
- **2017-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2374H1
- **2017-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 566 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63aff724-5856-4169-b33e-49a2df05cf00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).