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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle sales and use tax; refund to purchaser."
description: "Allows a purchaser to be refunded any motor vehicle sales and use tax paid if the vehicle is returned pursuant to the Virginia Motor Vehicle Warranty Act, or if the vehicle is returned within 45 days of purchase, and the purchase price is refunded, due to a mechanical defect or failure. The bill requires a person claiming the refund due to a mechanical defect or failure to submit an affidavit to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles stating that the vehicle was returned due to a mechanical defect or failure, the purchase price was refunded, the title was assigned to the person accepting the return, and the purchaser no longer has possession of the vehicle."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1350"
citation: "Virginia SB 1350 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Sales and Use Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6279ed76-cc88-4327-927c-0a4f7b82a931"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1350"
source_hash: "dee610e6d2f692441a2e460642a1f42dc4cc94fa0fd087ee8ac5ae797d04f05a"
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 SB 1350 (2017) — Motor vehicle sales and use tax; refund to purchaser.
Allows a purchaser to be refunded any motor vehicle sales and use tax paid if the vehicle is returned pursuant to the Virginia Motor Vehicle Warranty Act, or if the vehicle is returned within 45 days of purchase, and the purchase price is refunded, due to a mechanical defect or failure. The bill requires a person claiming the refund due to a mechanical defect or failure to submit an affidavit to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles stating that the vehicle was returned due to a mechanical defect or failure, the purchase price was refunded, the title was assigned to the person accepting the return, and the purchaser no longer has possession of the vehicle.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0552)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1350ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1350ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104615D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1350S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101471D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1350)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance with substitute — **151** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101471D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Passed by for the day
- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 17104615D-S1
- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1350S1
- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** 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 552 (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/6279ed76-cc88-4327-927c-0a4f7b82a931`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).