republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-116.md

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Bill	Retail sales and use tax holiday; establishes an annual tax holiday that takes place in August.	Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax will not apply to certain (i) school supplies, (ii) clothing and footwear, (iii) qualified products designated as Energy Star or WaterSense, (iv) portable generators, or (v) hurricane preparedness equipment. This bill is identical to HB 25.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 116	Virginia SB 116 (2024)	bill		enacted	L. Louise Lucas	5	48	8	2024-01-04	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/87a13437-b510-4553-b79a-450c55b28a75	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB116	154feef8a7fad72d34ed98ed18901ba10815e802af5243e6c645eb02300c862b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 116 (2024) — Retail sales and use tax holiday; establishes an annual tax holiday that takes place in August.

Annual retail sales and use tax holiday. Establishes an annual retail sales and use tax holiday that takes place on the first full weekend in August beginning on July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2030. During such weekend, state retail sales and use tax will not apply to certain (i) school supplies, (ii) clothing and footwear, (iii) qualified products designated as Energy Star or WaterSense, (iv) portable generators, or (v) hurricane preparedness equipment. This bill is identical to HB 25.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0663 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105206D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24107710D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101315D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB116ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — 0–40 (fail) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
• Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
• Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101315D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-04 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from TAX (SB116)
• 2024-01-16 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-16 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-16 Committee substitute printed 24105206D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-16 Incorporates SB58 (Craig)
• 2024-01-16 Incorporates SB64 (Durant)
• 2024-01-17 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-01-18 Committee substitute agreed to 24105206D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB116S1 substitution
• 2024-01-19 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-13 Impact statement from TAX (SB116S1)
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-14 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-14 Committee substitute printed 24107710D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Committee substitute agreed to 24107710D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-19 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB116H1 substitution
• 2024-02-19 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-19 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
• 2024-02-22 House insisted on substitute substitution
• 2024-02-22 House requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2024-02-26 Senators: Lucas, Locke, Reeves
• 2024-02-28 Conferees appointed by House
• 2024-02-28 Delegates: Reid, Watts, Kent
• 2024-03-05 Amended by conference committee
• 2024-03-06 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-06 Conference report agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-06 VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB116ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-31 Impact statement from TAX (SB116ER)
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 663 (effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0663)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/87a13437-b510-4553-b79a-450c55b28a75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).