republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-759.md

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Bill	Food inspections; pickles and acidified vegetables, gross sales.	Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower and are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill expands the exemption for private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products to allow for such person to sell the food at a temporary event that operates for a period of no more than 14 consecutive days. The bill also clarifies that such person may advertise such food products over the Internet provided that the sale takes place in person and complies with certain restrictions.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 759	Virginia HB 759 (2024)	bill		enacted	Nicholas J. Freitas	4	30	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/1953ca50-cab8-4c72-b557-ed7fdc2fe4f2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB759	e1871f747f9b294a291bdc8cfe3c816aa9b4de04e66acb58495c56555b44c6b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 759 (2024) — Food inspections; pickles and acidified vegetables, gross sales.

Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower and are processed and prepared in a private home without an inspection as otherwise required to operate a food establishment. The bill expands the exemption for private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products to allow for such person to sell the food at a temporary event that operates for a period of no more than 14 consecutive days. The bill also clarifies that such person may advertise such food products over the Internet provided that the sale takes place in person and complies with certain restrictions.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0131 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106149D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB759ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101821D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: (94-Y 2-N) — 93–2 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N) — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nicholas J. Freitas — primary (person)
• Delores Oates — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip A. Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101821D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB759)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24106149D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106149D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB759H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (94-Y 2-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: (94-Y 2-N)
• 2024-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB759H1)
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB759ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB759ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-25 Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-25 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1953ca50-cab8-4c72-b557-ed7fdc2fe4f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).