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type: "Bill"
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title: "Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians."
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description: "Retail sales and use tax; exemption for medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase of prescription medicines and drugs that are administered or dispensed to patients within a veterinarian-client-patient relationship. The bill repeals provisions of current law that provide that a veterinarian dispensing or selling medicines or drugs on prescription shall be deemed to be the user or consumer of all such medicines and drugs. The bill provides that the exemption shall be in effect from July 1, 2022, until July 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 551."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "SB 517"
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citation: "Virginia SB 517 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["L. Louise Lucas"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2022-01-12"
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last_action: "2022-04-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3681f49-94be-410c-9d06-3d15bf90edbf"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB517"
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source_hash: "c57ac08adf15919ea8a48be59d69b39e869ea9443986bfd77eebd9478858bdd5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 517 (2022) — Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians.
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Retail sales and use tax; exemption for medicine and drugs purchased by veterinarians. Exempts veterinarians from sales and use tax on the purchase of prescription medicines and drugs that are administered or dispensed to patients within a veterinarian-client-patient relationship. The bill repeals provisions of current law that provide that a veterinarian dispensing or selling medicines or drugs on prescription shall be deemed to be the user or consumer of all such medicines and drugs. The bill provides that the exemption shall be in effect from July 1, 2022, until July 1, 2025. This bill is identical to HB 551.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **CHAP0552** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0552)
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2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100192D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB517)
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3. **Printed as engrossed 22100192D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB517E)
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4. **SB517ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB517ER)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (13-Y 2-N) — **13–2** (pass) · upper
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- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
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- VOTE: (97-Y 2-N) — **96–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100192D `introduction`
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- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-23** Impact statement from TAX (SB517)
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- **2022-01-26** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
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- **2022-01-26** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
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- **2022-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2022-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
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- **2022-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2022-01-28** Reading of amendments waived
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- **2022-01-28** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2022-01-28** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB517E
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- **2022-01-28** Printed as engrossed 22100192D-E
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- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2022-02-17** Impact statement from TAX (SB517E)
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- **2022-02-18** Placed on Calendar
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- **2022-02-18** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-18** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-21** Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-23** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2022-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2022-02-28** Passed House (97-Y 2-N) `passage`
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- **2022-02-28** VOTE: (97-Y 2-N)
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- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
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- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
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- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
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- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from TAX (SB517ER)
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- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
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- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
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- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 552 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3681f49-94be-410c-9d06-3d15bf90edbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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