VirginiaRS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.
What it does
Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is applied to such products.
More detail
The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Jan 20Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)Latest
- Vote recorded Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 17Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/17/2026 10:37 am)
- Jan 20Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)Latest
- 2025
- Nov 17Referred to Committee on Finance and AppropriationsMinor
- Nov 17Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100497DIntroduced