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Bill	Cigarettes; purchase for resale, issuance of a cigarette exemption certificate, penalties.	Creates a new requirement that purchasers of cigarettes for resale must apply for a special cigarette exemption certificate from the Department of Taxation in order to not be liable for the payment of sales tax at the time of purchase. The bill sets forth numerous requirements that a taxpayer must meet in order to qualify for a cigarette exemption certificate and establishes processes and procedures for the application, renewal, denial, and revocation of the certificates. The bill creates new recordkeeping requirements for the sale or distribution of any quantity of cigarettes in excess of 50 cartons, or with a value greater than $10,000 in any single sale. The bill also contains technical amendments. The provisions of the bill requiring the use of a cigarette exemption certificate have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2018. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1913	Virginia HB 1913 (2017)	bill	Appropriations Taxation Tobacco and Tobacco Products	enacted	Richard L. Anderson	4	16	5	2017-01-10	2017-02-21	openstates	ocd-bill/9d8c5f29-0104-4f57-b940-f1bdf3fe7774	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1913	83dd13c1e87f2386fa95cece8d2078e063c6fd42af7812641a343fd0c288c62c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1913 (2017) — Cigarettes; purchase for resale, issuance of a cigarette exemption certificate, penalties.

Creates a new requirement that purchasers of cigarettes for resale must apply for a special cigarette exemption certificate from the Department of Taxation in order to not be liable for the payment of sales tax at the time of purchase. The bill sets forth numerous requirements that a taxpayer must meet in order to qualify for a cigarette exemption certificate and establishes processes and procedures for the application, renewal, denial, and revocation of the certificates. The bill creates new recordkeeping requirements for the sale or distribution of any quantity of cigarettes in excess of 50 cartons, or with a value greater than $10,000 in any single sale. The bill also contains technical amendments. The provisions of the bill requiring the use of a cigarette exemption certificate have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2018. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0112) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1913ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104391D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103593D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 93–2 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance with substitute — 18–3 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Richard L. Anderson — primary (person)
• James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103593D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-25 Committee substitute agreed to 17104391D-H1
• 2017-01-25 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1913H1
• 2017-01-26 Read third time and passed House (93-Y 2-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-27 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-09 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Enrolled
• 2017-02-13 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-13 Signed by President
• 2017-02-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
• 2017-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
• 2017-02-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d8c5f29-0104-4f57-b940-f1bdf3fe7774. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).