republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-342.md

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Bill	Meals tax and county food and beverage tax; exemption for farmers market and roadside stand sales.	Meals tax and county food and beverage tax; exemption for farmers market and roadside stand sales up to $2,500. Exempts from meals tax, which may be imposed by any city or town, and food and beverage tax, which may be imposed by any county, sales by sellers at local farmers markets and roadside stands when such sellers' annual income from such sales does not exceed $2,500. The bill defines such sellers' annual income as income from sales at all local farmer's markets and roadside stands, not just those sales occurring in the locality imposing the tax.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 342	Virginia HB 342 (2020)	bill		enacted	Robert B. Bell	4	33	7	2020-01-01	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/d64b5c74-c6a7-440d-b05d-0b0f7605b58f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB342	4d8555a00c3dd92fc707f81ee94b368dfdca552ad98e4c0d1d9080bab43378c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 342 (2020) — Meals tax and county food and beverage tax; exemption for farmers market and roadside stand sales.

Meals tax and county food and beverage tax; exemption for farmers market and roadside stand sales up to $2,500. Exempts from meals tax, which may be imposed by any city or town, and food and beverage tax, which may be imposed by any county, sales by sellers at local farmers markets and roadside stands when such sellers' annual income from such sales does not exceed $2,500. The bill defines such sellers' annual income as income from sales at all local farmer's markets and roadside stands, not just those sales occurring in the locality imposing the tax.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB342ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB342E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from TAX (HB342) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 1-N) — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with amendments (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert B. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100190D introduction
• 2020-01-01 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2020-01-11 Impact statement from TAX (HB342)
• 2020-01-14 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB342)
• 2020-01-27 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 1-N)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Finance with amendments (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-02-04 Engrossed by House as amended HB342E
• 2020-02-04 Printed as engrossed 20100190D-E
• 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-06 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-11 Impact statement from TAX (HB342E)
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled
• 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-26 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from TAX (HB342ER)
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 241 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d64b5c74-c6a7-440d-b05d-0b0f7605b58f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).