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type: "Bill"
title: "Danville, City of; recordation of deeds subject to liens for unpaid taxes."
description: "Authorizes the City of Danville to establish by ordinance a pilot project requiring that no deed with an assessed value of $50,000 or less be recorded by the clerk unless the city director of finance certifies that there are no liens against the property for unpaid taxes, interest, or fines owed to the City of Danville. The bill requires the City of Danville to make a written report to the Virginia Housing Commission by May 31, 2020, and it expires on July 1, 2021. As introduced, the bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1699"
citation: "Virginia HB 1699 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel W. Marshall, III"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-06"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/239c64d4-addf-4c84-acb2-ec0e784648ef"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1699"
source_hash: "37fcf2a609a72ea70e396d0fe463950391489a5197e3e59471ae5322e8455c9b"
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 1699 (2017) — Danville, City of; recordation of deeds subject to liens for unpaid taxes.
Authorizes the City of Danville to establish by ordinance a pilot project requiring that no deed with an assessed value of $50,000 or less be recorded by the clerk unless the city director of finance certifies that there are no liens against the property for unpaid taxes, interest, or fines owed to the City of Danville. The bill requires the City of Danville to make a written report to the Virginia Housing Commission by May 31, 2020, and it expires on July 1, 2021. As introduced, the bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0131)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1699ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1699ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102043D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1699)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102043D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1699E)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **113** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **950** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **337** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **100** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102043D `introduction`
- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB1699E
- **2017-02-01** Printed as engrossed 17102043D-E
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/239c64d4-addf-4c84-acb2-ec0e784648ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).