republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1868.md

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Bill	Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of armed forces who died in line of duty.	Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty; clarification for deaths resulting from suicide. Clarifies that the real property tax exemption currently available to the surviving spouse of any member of the armed forces of the United States who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense includes the death of any such member that was the result of suicide.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1868	Virginia HB 1868 (2025)	bill		enacted	Michael B. Feggans	7	44	11	2025-01-06	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/587ff5b1-f4e5-471e-a7f4-2bf142a16f20	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1868	7939be716e2dc1cc3fee842afd35543031b4d7f7df203c6503f0fe040a08d369	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1868 (2025) — Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of armed forces who died in line of duty.

Real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty; clarification for deaths resulting from suicide. Clarifies that the real property tax exemption currently available to the surviving spouse of any member of the armed forces of the United States who died in the line of duty with a Line of Duty determination from the U.S. Department of Defense includes the death of any such member that was the result of suicide.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Senator Rouse, Aaron R. Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Substitute by Senator Rouse reconsidered — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee substitute reconsidered (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael B. Feggans — primary (person)
• Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104206D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2025-01-19 Impact statement from TAX (HB1868)
• 2025-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Finance with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Finance Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-01-27 Printed as engrossed 25104206D-E
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-08 Impact statement from TAX (HB1868)
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-18 Committee substitute printed 25107619D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-20 Floor substitute printed 25107754D-S2 (Rouse)
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Finance and Appropriations Substitute rejected
• 2025-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-20 Senator Rouse, Aaron R. Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) passage, substitution
• 2025-02-20 Substitute by Senator Rouse reconsidered
• 2025-02-20 Committee substitute reconsidered (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-20 Senator Rouse, Aaron R. Substitute ruled out of order
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1868ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Impact statement from TAX (HB1868)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 486 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/587ff5b1-f4e5-471e-a7f4-2bf142a16f20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).