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type: "Bill"
title: "Real property tax; Bedford County authorized to perform general reassessment."
description: "Authorizes Bedford County to perform a general reassessment of real property every five or six years instead of every four years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 124"
citation: "Virginia HB 124 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Real Estate and Real Estate Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-18"
last_action: "2018-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a880485-8f3d-4178-b636-18355393ef36"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB124"
source_hash: "7102cb7b860bcb6c035e642a345a35840f8be3d29d534b78bad8811f1a5b5cf7"
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 124 (2018) — Real property tax; Bedford County authorized to perform general reassessment.
Authorizes Bedford County to perform a general reassessment of real property every five or six years instead of every four years.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0024)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB124ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB124ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101634D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB124)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **380** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101634D `introduction`
- **2017-12-18** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 24 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a880485-8f3d-4178-b636-18355393ef36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).