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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Litter tax; penalty for failure to timely pay."
description: "Litter tax; penalty for failure to timely pay."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 996"
citation: "Virginia SB 996 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ruff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91b8f845-b504-40f0-84d0-821358c8e3bb"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB996"
source_hash: "704e7fbc38c032c485ec4c24e1029145ab012b1e9a3b75572f19dfef0a68197b"
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 996 (2023) — Litter tax; penalty for failure to timely pay.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0252** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0252)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105290D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB996S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102219D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB996)
4. **SB996ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB996ER)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage (76-Y 23-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance (18-Y 3-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ruff — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102219D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from TAX (SB996)
- **2023-01-31** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-31** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Committee substitute printed 23105290D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to 23105290D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-02** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB996S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Impact statement from TAX (SB996S1)
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Finance (18-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House (76-Y 23-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Passage (76-Y 23-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB996ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from TAX (SB996ER)
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 252 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91b8f845-b504-40f0-84d0-821358c8e3bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).