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type: "Bill"
title: "All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), mopeds, and off-road motorcycles; clarifies taxation on vehicles, etc."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1679"
citation: "Virginia HB 1679 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-12-05"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b0b743c-e1dd-43ba-872c-c6676486f7cb"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1679"
source_hash: "fc895a42ebc04296ab3f0d46d07a48d4faea8b8bbbb6eb82da71baf2ef47aba6"
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 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](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0052)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1679ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1679ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104855D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1679H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100726D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1679)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance — **110** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **8212** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance with substitute — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b0b743c-e1dd-43ba-872c-c6676486f7cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).