republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-828.md

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Bill	Personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers.	Creates a separate classification of tangible personal property, for valuation purposes, for computer equipment and peripherals used in a data center. The classification specifies that the computer equipment and peripherals shall be valued by means of a percentage or percentages of original cost or by any other method that reasonably may be expected to determine fair market value. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 828	Virginia HB 828 (2018)	bill	Computer Services and Uses Personal Property and Personal Property Tax Taxation	enacted	Lamont Bagby	4	18	6	2018-01-09	2018-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/a09095e8-ddf7-4047-aec0-382355b3f2d3	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB828	502f814e154d8dd1b58cab0b9668bfd07434dde87e2da92d892b593c08f724f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 828 (2018) — Personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers.

Creates a separate classification of tangible personal property, for valuation purposes, for computer equipment and peripherals used in a data center. The classification specifies that the computer equipment and peripherals shall be valued by means of a percentage or percentages of original cost or by any other method that reasonably may be expected to determine fair market value. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB828ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100799D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 18100799D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 9–1 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
• Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
• Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
• Siobhan S. Dunnavant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100799D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2018-01-23 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 amendment agreed to
• 2018-02-01 Engrossed by House as amended HB828E
• 2018-02-01 Printed as engrossed 18100799D-E
• 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
• 2018-02-15 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 28 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a09095e8-ddf7-4047-aec0-382355b3f2d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).