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type: "Bill"
title: "Temporary exemption periods from retail sales and use taxes for qualifying items; sunset dates."
description: "Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022, the sunset dates for the sales tax holiday periods for school supplies and clothing, Energy Star and WaterSense products, and hurricane preparedness products. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1018"
citation: "Virginia SB 1018 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sales and Use Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c50153-fbda-4d39-9eb7-6d3ebdb88ef3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1018"
source_hash: "44e3402168dee33863434d2309c73066bb9555fdf0be619491ae6edb929cd628"
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 SB 1018 (2017) — Temporary exemption periods from retail sales and use taxes for qualifying items; sunset dates.
Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022, the sunset dates for the sales tax holiday periods for school supplies and clothing, Energy Star and WaterSense products, and hurricane preparedness products. 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 (CHAP0446)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0446)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1018ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1018ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102176D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1018)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- George L. Barker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102176D `introduction`
- **2017-01-04** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 446 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73c50153-fbda-4d39-9eb7-6d3ebdb88ef3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).