republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-793.md

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Bill	Small businesses; waiver of tax penalties.	Waives any penalties related to taxes administered by the Department of Taxation for a small business during its first two years of operation as long as the business enters into an installment agreement with the Tax Commissioner for the payment of taxes. However, the bill provides that the Department of Taxation shall not be required to waive penalties for conversion of trust taxes or failure to remit state sales or withholding taxes.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 793	Virginia SB 793 (2017)	bill	Taxation Trade and Commerce	enacted	Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr.	3	24	10	2016-09-19	2017-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/4cbe3c36-6345-4ffd-9a4b-7c02265c9d3f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB793	6a090d764f7f36cc409abee2a56eaeba492d4437e04d74595c462484013b44cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 793 (2017) — Small businesses; waiver of tax penalties.

Waives any penalties related to taxes administered by the Department of Taxation for a small business during its first two years of operation as long as the business enters into an installment agreement with the Tax Commissioner for the payment of taxes. However, the bill provides that the Department of Taxation shall not be required to waive penalties for conversion of trust taxes or failure to remit state sales or withholding taxes.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0718) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB793ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100189D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate acceded to request — 33–2 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 96–3 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• House amendment rejected by Senate — 0–38 (fail) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 15–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with amendment — 94–5 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 19–3 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — primary (person)
• Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-09-19 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100189D introduction
• 2016-09-19 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-15 Amendment by Delegate Massie agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-02-15 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2017-02-15 Passed House with amendment (94-Y 5-N) passage
• 2017-02-15 House insisted on amendment
• 2017-02-15 House requested conference committee
• 2017-02-15 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-15 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-23 Amended by conference committee
• 2017-02-23 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 3-N)
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 718 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4cbe3c36-6345-4ffd-9a4b-7c02265c9d3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).