Virginia House of Delegates bill in Session 2026.
Status: introduced. Latest action: February 11, 2026.
RS and UT; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products.
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 beginning on July 1, 2026. 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.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-19 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-12-19 | Status | introduced |
| 2026-02-11 | Latest Action | H Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote) |