Virginia House Bill 540 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in Finance by voice vote
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Sales tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Provides an exemption from local sales and use tax beginning July 1, 2024, for food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. The bill also provides an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill. Under current law, such products are exempt from state sales and use tax but are subject to the standard local rate of one percent.

Sales and use tax; exemption for food purchased for human consumption & essential personal hygiene.

Del. Joseph McNamara [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-07	House	Continued to 2025 in Finance by voice vote
2024-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote
2024-02-02	House	Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101582D

HB540 (Carry Over) 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in Finance by voice vote
SB110 (Similar To) 2024-01-30 - Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	2425	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	603.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	603.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	604.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	605.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	606.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	611.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	638	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB540
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB540+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB540F161+PDF