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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for oil and gas drilling equipment, extends sunset provision."
+description: "Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for oil and gas drilling equipment, extends sunset provision."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2334"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2334 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Morefield"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-12"
+last_action: "2023-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e059df86-f37d-42b7-a866-321f74e43ccb"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2334"
+source_hash: "a2ebb5893ab21bae320c0ab556b3cbc7c1549d991547030396840ab7f80d0269"
+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 HB 2334 (2023) — Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for oil and gas drilling equipment, extends sunset provision.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0144** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0144)
+2. **HB2334ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2334ER)
+3. **Presented and ordered printed 23103767D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2334)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Passage (73-Y 26-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 7-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Finance (18-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Morefield — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-12** Presented and ordered printed 23103767D `introduction`
+- **2023-01-12** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-19** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-19** Impact statement from TAX (HB2334)
+- **2023-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
+- **2023-01-25** Reported from Finance (18-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed House (73-Y 26-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-31** VOTE: Passage (73-Y 26-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-02-01** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-10** Passed by for the day
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2334ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from TAX (HB2334ER)
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 144 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e059df86-f37d-42b7-a866-321f74e43ccb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+