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type: "Bill"
title: "Combined transient occupancy and food and beverage tax; technical amendments."
description: "Combined transient occupancy and food and beveragetax; technical amendments. Provides that, for purposes of thecombined transient occupancy and food and beverage tax that is currentlyauthorized for Rappahannock and Madison Counties, the rate limitfor such tax shall be the same as if the two taxes were imposed separately.The bill also eliminates the referendum requirement for the foodand beverage component of the combined tax, consistent with Chapters1214 and 1263 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, which eliminated thereferendum requirement for the food and beverage tax generally."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1438"
citation: "Virginia SB 1438 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-15"
last_action: "2021-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c21f123-1d8a-4341-a206-88524a8588c6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1438"
source_hash: "ad7150f617ea7593cfbf166195375919eb16569eabd63f092dfa665779eb772f"
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 1438 (2021) — Combined transient occupancy and food and beverage tax; technical amendments.
Combined transient occupancy and food and beveragetax; technical amendments. Provides that, for purposes of thecombined transient occupancy and food and beverage tax that is currentlyauthorized for Rappahannock and Madison Counties, the rate limitfor such tax shall be the same as if the two taxes were imposed separately.The bill also eliminates the referendum requirement for the foodand beverage component of the combined tax, consistent with Chapters1214 and 1263 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, which eliminated thereferendum requirement for the food and beverage tax generally.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0062** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0062)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 21101783D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1438)
3. **SB1438ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1438ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance — **00** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N) — **110** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 21101783D `introduction`
- **2021-01-15** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20** Impact statement from TAX (SB1438)
- **2021-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance
- **2021-02-09** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled
- **2021-02-24** Signed by President
- **2021-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Impact statement from TAX (SB1438ER)
- **2021-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 62 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c21f123-1d8a-4341-a206-88524a8588c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).