republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-1582.md

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Bill	Delinquent tax lands; threshold for nonjudicial sale.	Delinquent tax lands; threshold for nonjudicial sale. Raises the assessment threshold at which a local treasurer or other officer responsible for collecting taxes has general authority to sell real property with over three years of delinquent taxes from less than $5,000 to no more than $10,000 and extends such authority to improved as well as unimproved parcels of real property. The bill raises the assessment range at which such officer may sell parcels of real property with over three years of delinquent taxes and that meet certain criteria from at least $5,000 but less than $20,000 to more than $10,000 but no more than $25,000. The bill increases the size of unimproved parcels that may be sold from less than 4,000 square feet to one acre or less.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1582	Virginia HB 1582 (2020)	bill		enacted	Steve E. Heretick	3	23	6	2020-01-14	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/dd3b41d0-b82e-43f3-9d67-ae0fcd110ec9	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1582	1ae45b3a8972e881efd3c6fa1647ba310f105199e4dca8a9b3f6445effea31a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1582 (2020) — Delinquent tax lands; threshold for nonjudicial sale.

Delinquent tax lands; threshold for nonjudicial sale. Raises the assessment threshold at which a local treasurer or other officer responsible for collecting taxes has general authority to sell real property with over three years of delinquent taxes from less than $5,000 to no more than $10,000 and extends such authority to improved as well as unimproved parcels of real property. The bill raises the assessment range at which such officer may sell parcels of real property with over three years of delinquent taxes and that meet certain criteria from at least $5,000 but less than $20,000 to more than $10,000 but no more than $25,000. The bill increases the size of unimproved parcels that may be sold from less than 4,000 square feet to one acre or less.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1582ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from TAX (HB1582) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Steve E. Heretick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-14 Presented and ordered printed 20104965D introduction
• 2020-01-14 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2020-01-25 Impact statement from TAX (HB1582)
• 2020-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Finance (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled
• 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-26 Impact statement from TAX (HB1582ER)
• 2020-02-26 Signed by President
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 257 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd3b41d0-b82e-43f3-9d67-ae0fcd110ec9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).