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State Government / Virginia / Legislation / HB 703

HB 703Session 2027HouseIn committee

RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.

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. 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.

Latest development · Jul 21, 2026

Continued from last session

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Session
2027
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Latest passage
Date unavailable
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Budget & Taxes

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Bill

Sponsors

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Primary sponsorAnne Ferrell Tata
cosponsorBill Wiley
cosponsorChris S. Runion
cosponsorDelores Oates
cosponsor

Ellen H. McLaughlin

cosponsorEric Phillips
cosponsorEric R. Zehr
cosponsorH. Otto Wachsmann, Jr.
cosponsorHillary Pugh Kent
cosponsorHyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr.
cosponsorIsrael D. O'Quinn
cosponsorJames A. "Jay" Leftwich
cosponsorJames W. Morefield
cosponsorJason S. Ballard
cosponsorJoseph P. McNamara
cosponsorJustin Pence
cosponsorKaren Hamilton
cosponsorM. Keith Hodges
cosponsorMadison Whittle
cosponsorMichael J. Webert
cosponsorMike A. Cherry
cosponsorMitchell Cornett
cosponsorR. Lee Ware
cosponsorScott A. Wyatt
cosponsorTerry G. Kilgore
cosponsorThomas A. Garrett, Jr.
cosponsorThomas C. Wright, Jr.
cosponsorTimothy P. Griffin
cosponsorTony O. Wilt
cosponsorWendell S. Walker
cosponsorWill Davis
cosponsorWren M. Williams

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View full action timeline7 actions⌄
  1. Jul 21, 2026

    Continued from last session

    House
  2. Feb 11, 2026

    Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote)

    House
  3. Feb 9, 2026

    Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote)

    House
  4. Feb 5, 2026

    Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #3

    Referral CommitteeHouse
  5. Jan 23, 2026

    Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/23/2026 2:04 pm)

    House
  6. Jan 13, 2026

    Referred to Committee on Finance

    Referral CommitteeHouse
  7. Jan 13, 2026

    Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103660D

    FilingIntroductionHouse

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Source data last updated Jul 21, 2026.