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type: "Bill"
title: "Retail Sales and Use Tax; media-related exemptions."
description: "Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022, the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for printing purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so long as such material is distributed outside of the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 804"
citation: "Virginia SB 804 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sales and Use Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-10-13"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d412583-b8d8-42dd-b5f4-e14fb6560ccd"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB804"
source_hash: "32a78aa3b4dcd126fc52edac52f81e68c7442ae8bb5f151ccc88ae6b3be8e08a"
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 804 (2017) — Retail Sales and Use Tax; media-related exemptions.
Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022, the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for printing purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so long as such material is distributed outside of the Commonwealth.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0441)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB804ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB804ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100699D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB804)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **140** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-10-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100699D `introduction`
- **2016-10-13** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Passed by for the day
- **2017-01-23** 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** 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 441 (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/3d412583-b8d8-42dd-b5f4-e14fb6560ccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).