republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1679.md

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Bill	All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), mopeds, and off-road motorcycles; clarifies taxation on vehicles, etc.	Clarifies the taxation of all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road motorcycles and provides that vehicles that qualify as farm equipment that is exempt from sales and use tax shall be exempt from the motor vehicle sales and use tax. The bill contains technical amendments related to the collection of the additional state sales and use tax within the Historic Triangle.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1679	Virginia HB 1679 (2019)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Taxation	enacted	Robert D. Orrock, Sr.	4	16	5	2018-12-05	2019-02-19	openstates	ocd-bill/5b0b743c-e1dd-43ba-872c-c6676486f7cb	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1679	fc895a42ebc04296ab3f0d46d07a48d4faea8b8bbbb6eb82da71baf2ef47aba6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1679 (2019) — All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), mopeds, and off-road motorcycles; clarifies taxation on vehicles, etc.

Clarifies the taxation of all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, and off-road motorcycles and provides that vehicles that qualify as farm equipment that is exempt from sales and use tax shall be exempt from the motor vehicle sales and use tax. The bill contains technical amendments related to the collection of the additional state sales and use tax within the Historic Triangle.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1679ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 19104855D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100726D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House — 82–12 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100726D introduction
• 2018-12-05 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-24 Committee substitute agreed to 19104855D-H1
• 2019-01-24 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1679H1
• 2019-01-25 Read third time and passed House (82-Y 12-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-28 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Enrolled
• 2019-02-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-11 Signed by President
• 2019-02-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
• 2019-02-12 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
• 2019-02-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 52 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b0b743c-e1dd-43ba-872c-c6676486f7cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).