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type: "Bill"
title: "Personal property tax; computer equipment and peripherals used in data centers."
description: "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"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 828"
citation: "Virginia HB 828 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Personal Property and Personal Property Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a09095e8-ddf7-4047-aec0-382355b3f2d3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB828"
source_hash: "502f814e154d8dd1b58cab0b9668bfd07434dde87e2da92d892b593c08f724f1"
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 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](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0028)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB828ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB828ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100799D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB828)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 18100799D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB828E)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance with amendment — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **110** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **91** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a09095e8-ddf7-4047-aec0-382355b3f2d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).