---
type: "Bill"
title: "Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns."
description: "Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns. Requires that any town located within a county that has imposed a disposable plastic bag tax receive a distribution of revenues collected by the county based on the local sales tax distribution formula for appropriations to towns. The bill restricts a town's use of such revenues to the same purposes allowable for a county or city."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 341"
citation: "Virginia HB 341 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marty Martinez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-12"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ad312e8-a88a-4a65-8c23-9a8ae8588b4c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB341"
source_hash: "ce5888d8d41e834c22a6e5cf544798fa17bfe7323dd5bd322b0fa0499f23d68b"
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 341 (2026) — Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns.

Plastic bag tax; distribution to towns. Requires that any town located within a county that has imposed a disposable plastic bag tax receive a distribution of revenues collected by the county based on the local sales tax distribution formula for appropriations to towns. The bill restricts a town's use of such revenues to the same purposes allowable for a county or city.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1083916.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216442.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1171555.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **8–5** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **22–16** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **15–7** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **67–32** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marty Martinez — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100399D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-12** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-16** Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/19/2026 10:03 pm)
- **2026-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N)
- **2026-01-21** Reported from Finance (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-27** Read third time and passed House (67-Y 32-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-01-28** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-18** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-18** Passed by for the day
- **2026-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed Senate (22-Y 16-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB341ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (2/24/2026 7:43 am)
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ad312e8-a88a-4a65-8c23-9a8ae8588b4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).