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Bill County food and beverage tax; referendum. Prohibits a county from holding a new referendum on the levy of a food and beverage tax in the three calendar years subsequent to its electoral defeat, but only if such referendum is initiated by a resolution of the board of supervisors. The bill also requires the ballot for any such referendum to state the total tax, as a percentage, that would be imposed on food and beverage if the referendum were to pass, based upon a four percent food and beverage tax and any other ad valorem taxes applicable to the purchase of prepared food and beverage in the county. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 1296 Virginia SB 1296 (2017)
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Virginia SB 1296 (2017) — County food and beverage tax; referendum.

Prohibits a county from holding a new referendum on the levy of a food and beverage tax in the three calendar years subsequent to its electoral defeat, but only if such referendum is initiated by a resolution of the board of supervisors. The bill also requires the ballot for any such referendum to state the total tax, as a percentage, that would be imposed on food and beverage if the referendum were to pass, based upon a four percent food and beverage tax and any other ad valorem taxes applicable to the purchase of prepared food and beverage in the county.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0833) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1296ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103024D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Finance with amendment — 166 (pass) · legislature
  • Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate — 390 (pass) · legislature
  • Senate rejected Governor's recommendation #3 — 1723 (fail) · legislature
  • House amendment agreed to by Senate — 328 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate — 327 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House with amendment — 6731 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Finance — 151 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 318 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 81 (pass) · legislature
  • Senate rejected Governor's recommendations #'s 1-2 — 1426 (fail) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Jill Holtzman Vogel — primary (person)
  • David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
  • Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103024D introduction
  • 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
  • 2017-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-01-31 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
  • 2017-02-03 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
  • 2017-02-14 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-15 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-15 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2017-02-15 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2017-02-15 Passed House with amendment (67-Y 31-N 1-A) passage
  • 2017-02-22 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-22 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-22 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-23 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
  • 2017-02-23 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
  • 2017-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
  • 2017-04-05 Communicated to Governor
  • 2017-04-05 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, May 5, 2017
  • 2017-04-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 833 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0af9938e-474d-4b98-b17d-f537338fd7e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).