republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-495.md

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Bill	Secrecy of tax information; local officials to disclose information to non-governmental entities.	Authorizes local commissioners of the revenue, treasurers, directors of finance, or other similar local officials to disclose tax information to nongovernmental entities with which their locality has contracted to provide services that assist it in the administration of refund processing or other non-audit services related to the administration of taxes. The bill prohibits such third-party contractors from disclosing the tax information to other parties.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 495	Virginia HB 495 (2018)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Taxation	enacted	M. Keith Hodges	4	13	6	2018-01-08	2018-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/7d3ae84d-6973-4d1f-86aa-adfbb9ad5f99	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB495	ce5facfc0bf013ec5cc120022ea906f7ca78dd9e79e27550cd885c91635557b1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 495 (2018) — Secrecy of tax information; local officials to disclose information to non-governmental entities.

Authorizes local commissioners of the revenue, treasurers, directors of finance, or other similar local officials to disclose tax information to nongovernmental entities with which their locality has contracted to provide services that assist it in the administration of refund processing or other non-audit services related to the administration of taxes. The bill prohibits such third-party contractors from disclosing the tax information to other parties.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB495ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 18105688D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102628D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 15–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102628D introduction
• 2018-01-08 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2018-01-16 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 18105688D-H1
• 2018-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB495H1
• 2018-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2018-02-16 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-19 Enrolled
• 2018-02-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 40 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d3ae84d-6973-4d1f-86aa-adfbb9ad5f99. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).