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type: "Bill"
title: "Approved local volunteer activities; enables localities to provide credit against taxes & fees."
description: "Local credits for approved local volunteer activities. Enables localities, by ordinance, to provide a credit against taxesand fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approvedvolunteer services in the locality. As defined in the bill, \"approvedvolunteer services\" includes (i) volunteer first responders or (ii)individuals who perform volunteer services to a nonprofit organizationor to the locality, if such services are approved by the locality.The bill specifies that the credit shall not be applied against anyproperty taxes or payments in lieu of property taxes. The bill giveslocalities discretion to determine which taxes or fees are permissibleuses of the credit and which services qualify for the credit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 911"
citation: "Virginia HB 911 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02bf2262-c561-45c9-a198-220e07327702"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB911"
source_hash: "72c52f0129da8956cd0670881a05edecd291098ad543d804ac678928e7d9091d"
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 911 (2022) — Approved local volunteer activities; enables localities to provide credit against taxes & fees.
Local credits for approved local volunteer activities. Enables localities, by ordinance, to provide a credit against taxesand fees imposed by the locality to an individual who provides approvedvolunteer services in the locality. As defined in the bill, "approvedvolunteer services" includes (i) volunteer first responders or (ii)individuals who perform volunteer services to a nonprofit organizationor to the locality, if such services are approved by the locality.The bill specifies that the credit shall not be applied against anyproperty taxes or payments in lieu of property taxes. The bill giveslocalities discretion to determine which taxes or fees are permissibleuses of the credit and which services qualify for the credit.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0773** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0773)
2. **Governor's substitute printed 22107976D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB911H1)
3. **HB911ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB911ER)
4. **HB911ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB911ER2)
5. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100927D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB911)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance (18-Y 3-N) — **183** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N) — **81** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 5-N 1-A) — **925** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 2-N 1-A) — **962** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100927D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Impact statement from TAX (HB911)
- **2022-01-27** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N)
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Finance (18-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-08** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 5-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-08** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 5-N 1-A)
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Enrolled
- **2022-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-28** Signed by President
- **2022-03-01** Impact statement from TAX (HB911ER)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by House
- **2022-04-11** Governor's substitute printed 22107976D-H1
- **2022-04-27** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (97-Y 2-N 1-A)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 2-N 1-A)
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (HB911ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 773 (effective 7/1/22) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02bf2262-c561-45c9-a198-220e07327702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).