republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-771.md

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Bill	Personal property; other classifications of tangible property for taxation.	Personal property tax; classification; emergency. Authorizes localities to classify for rate purposes certain vehicles that, under current law, may be classified only for valuation purposes, including certain automobiles, trucks, motor vehicles for use by the handicapped, motorcycles, mopeds, all-terrain vehicles, off-road motorcycles, campers, and other recreational vehicles. The bill specifies that its provisions shall apply only to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2025. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 1239.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 771	Virginia SB 771 (2022)	bill		enacted	Richard H. Stuart	5	42	9	2022-01-21	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/6af5185a-bbd8-402d-b0b0-69d12eb8bafe	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB771	a5f430dfcf39507c75d27a1cb77280fb4eaad01bc57f9e13a987b5535877c53e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 771 (2022) — Personal property; other classifications of tangible property for taxation.

Personal property tax; classification; emergency. Authorizes localities to classify for rate purposes certain vehicles that, under current law, may be classified only for valuation purposes, including certain automobiles, trucks, motor vehicles for use by the handicapped, motorcycles, mopeds, all-terrain vehicles, off-road motorcycles, campers, and other recreational vehicles. The bill specifies that its provisions shall apply only to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2025. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 1239.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0578 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22105887D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 22106932D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Presented and ordered printed 22104978D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB771ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption Emergency (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — 0–40 (fail) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 22104978D introduction
• 2022-01-21 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-29 Impact statement from TAX (SB771)
• 2022-02-02 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Committee substitute printed 22105887D-S1 substitution
• 2022-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-04 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 22105887D-S1
• 2022-02-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB771S1
• 2022-02-07 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Reported from Finance with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-23 Committee substitute printed 22106932D-H1 substitution
• 2022-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Committee substitute agreed to 22106932D-H1
• 2022-02-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB771H1
• 2022-02-28 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
• 2022-03-03 House insisted on substitute
• 2022-03-03 House requested conference committee
• 2022-03-07 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-07 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2022-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
• 2022-03-10 Amended by conference committee
• 2022-03-11 Passed by temporarily
• 2022-03-11 Conference report withdrawn
• 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-11 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-11 VOTE: Adoption Emergency (95-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-21 Enrolled
• 2022-03-21 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-03-23 Impact statement from TAX (SB771S1)
• 2022-03-23 Impact statement from TAX (SB771ER)
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 578 (effective 4/11/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6af5185a-bbd8-402d-b0b0-69d12eb8bafe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).