republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-1076.md

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Bill	Cigarette tax, local; identifying unsold inventory, localities that increase taxes.	Local cigarette tax; unsold inventory. Requires any locality that increases its cigarette tax rate to allow, for one calendar year after the increase, a person with unsold inventory to pay the tax increase on the unsold inventory by filing a return, rather than requiring the use of a stamp or meter impression. The bill imposes a duty on regional cigarette tax boards to effectuate the policy. This bill is identical to SB 25.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 1076	Virginia HB 1076 (2022)	bill		enacted	Joseph P. McNamara	3	23	6	2022-01-12	2022-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/bf5ca7fc-9264-4c8e-a162-d5cda9b45563	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1076	861f3201113e4b1e4f53def4738160ccf01f7c347fe13fb8ea2412335e563659	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1076 (2022) — Cigarette tax, local; identifying unsold inventory, localities that increase taxes.

Local cigarette tax; unsold inventory. Requires any locality that increases its cigarette tax rate to allow, for one calendar year after the increase, a person with unsold inventory to pay the tax increase on the unsold inventory by filing a return, rather than requiring the use of a stamp or meter impression. The bill imposes a duty on regional cigarette tax boards to effectuate the policy. This bill is identical to SB 25.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0224 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1076ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101730D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joseph P. McNamara — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101730D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2022-01-27 Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2022-01-27 Impact statement from TAX (HB1076)
• 2022-02-04 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-07 Reported from Finance (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-11 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-14 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-24 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-28 Enrolled
• 2022-02-28 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-02-28 Signed by President
• 2022-03-01 Impact statement from TAX (HB1076ER)
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 224 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf5ca7fc-9264-4c8e-a162-d5cda9b45563. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).