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Bill Fee for passing bad checks to localities; payment order not paid by recipient. Fee for passing bad checks to localities. Makes clarifying amendments to existing provisions related to the imposition of a fee by a locality for the passing of a bad check and adds a reference to electronic payment orders to such provisions. The bill also provides that no fee shall be imposed as the result of an electronic payment order that is not honored as the result of the nonexistence of any account matching the account information provided by the taxpayer, provided that the taxpayer has not tendered any other electronic payment order that was not honored during the 12 months preceding the tender of the payment order in question. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2026 HB 177 Virginia HB 177 (2026)
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Virginia HB 177 (2026) — Fee for passing bad checks to localities; payment order not paid by recipient.

Fee for passing bad checks to localities. Makes clarifying amendments to existing provisions related to the imposition of a fee by a locality for the passing of a bad check and adds a reference to electronic payment orders to such provisions. The bill also provides that no fee shall be imposed as the result of an electronic payment order that is not honored as the result of the nonexistence of any account matching the account information provided by the taxpayer, provided that the taxpayer has not tendered any other electronic payment order that was not honored during the 12 months preceding the tender of the payment order in question.

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. Counties, Cities and Towns Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  5. Local Government Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  6. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
  7. Subcommittee #3 Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
  8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • H VOTE: — 944 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Local Government with amendments — 140 (pass) · upper
  • H VOTE: — 942 (pass) · lower
  • Passage R — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 60 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bonita G. Anthony — primary (person)
  • Stacey Annie Carroll — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102386D filing, introduction
  • 2026-01-06 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
  • 2026-01-28 Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
  • 2026-01-29 House subcommittee offered
  • 2026-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 2026-01-30 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-02-03 Read first time reading-1
  • 2026-02-04 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
  • 2026-02-04 Read second time reading-2
  • 2026-02-04 committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2026-02-04 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2026-02-05 Read third time and passed House (94-Y 4-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
  • 2026-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2026-02-06 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
  • 2026-03-02 Senate committee offered
  • 2026-03-02 Reported from Local Government with amendments (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2026-03-03 Rules suspended
  • 2026-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
  • 2026-03-03 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
  • 2026-03-04 Read third time reading-3
  • 2026-03-04 Local Government Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2026-03-04 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2026-03-04 Passed Senate with amendments Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
  • 2026-03-06 Senate amendments agreed to by House (94-Y 2-N 0-A) amendment-passage
  • 2026-03-13 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2026-03-13 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB177ER) passage
  • 2026-03-13 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2026-03-13 Signed by President passage
  • 2026-03-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2026-03-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
  • 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 86 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
  • 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0086)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b058bc1-6b57-49bb-9f4b-6ffe4528017c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).