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type: "Bill"
title: "Illegal gaming devices; manufacturing, etc., device, civil penalty."
description: "Illegal gaming devices; Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; civil penalty. Adds the manufacturing for sale, selling, or distributing of an illegal gaming device while knowing that it is or is intended to be operated in the Commonwealth in violation of the law to the list of violations for which a civil penalty may be assessed against a person who is found to have committed such violation. The bill also adds a knowledge requirement to the existing violation of possessing or controlling an illegal gambling device. The bill also provides for a civil penalty of up to $25,000 per gambling device for any person who sells a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location. The bill provides that it shall be sufficient ground for an action for pretrial levy or seizure or an attachment that a principal defendant has conducted, financed, managed, supervised, directed, sold, or owned a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location. This bill incorporates SB 566."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 530"
citation: "Virginia SB 530 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1ec1ae5-e7b8-4e66-ab5b-4c99274b3a51"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB530"
source_hash: "992c1a6873a1627fd587b6b7e08974316a57da73e340c5b65dc1babefbbcdb94"
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 SB 530 (2022) — Illegal gaming devices; manufacturing, etc., device, civil penalty.
Illegal gaming devices; Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act; civil penalty. Adds the manufacturing for sale, selling, or distributing of an illegal gaming device while knowing that it is or is intended to be operated in the Commonwealth in violation of the law to the list of violations for which a civil penalty may be assessed against a person who is found to have committed such violation. The bill also adds a knowledge requirement to the existing violation of possessing or controlling an illegal gambling device. The bill also provides for a civil penalty of up to $25,000 per gambling device for any person who sells a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location. The bill provides that it shall be sufficient ground for an action for pretrial levy or seizure or an attachment that a principal defendant has conducted, financed, managed, supervised, directed, sold, or owned a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location. This bill incorporates SB 566.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0553** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0553)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105926D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB530S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104310D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB530)
4. **SB530ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB530ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (19-Y 3-N) — **193** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N) — **927** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 2-A) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
- Ryan T. McDougle — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104310D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB530)
- **2022-01-26** Assigned GL&T sub: Gaming `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02** Committee substitute printed 22105926D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-02** Incorporates SB566 (McDougle)
- **2022-02-02** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Impact statement from VCSC (SB530S1)
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB530S1)
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 22105926D-S1
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB530S1
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 2-A) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Reported from General Laws (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-25** Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-01** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-03-01** Passed House with amendment (93-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N)
- **2022-03-02** House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB530ER)
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-08** 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
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 553 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1ec1ae5-e7b8-4e66-ab5b-4c99274b3a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).