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Bill	RS & UT; exemption for aircraft components, extends sunset.	Retail sales and use tax; aircraft components. Extends the sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for parts, engines, and supplies used for maintaining, repairing, or reconditioning aircraft or any aircraft's avionics system, engine, or component parts to July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to HB 1729.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 942	Virginia SB 942 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bill DeSteph	6	50	11	2025-01-06	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/6efb127b-d034-409c-abab-1cc547106851	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB942	b005704b4e57cc57f1308392d657c40095f6a820806bc654aec9aa6ce69ed103	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 942 (2025) — RS & UT; exemption for aircraft components, extends sunset.

Retail sales and use tax; aircraft components. Extends the sunset date for the sales and use tax exemption for parts, engines, and supplies used for maintaining, repairing, or reconditioning aircraft or any aircraft's avionics system, engine, or component parts to July 1, 2030. This bill is identical to HB 1729.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — 0–40 (fail) · upper
• Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N) — 95–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill DeSteph — primary (person)
• Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
• Luther Cifers, III — cosponsor (person)
• Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102041D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Impact statement from TAX (SB942)
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Committee substitute printed 25105831D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-27 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-27 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-28 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-29 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-29 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-29 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Impact statement from TAX (SB942)
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Finance with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Committee substitute printed 25107278D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Finance Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-17 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-17 Passed House with substitute (95-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-17 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
• 2025-02-19 House insisted on substitute substitution
• 2025-02-19 House requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: DeSteph, Deeds, VanValkenburg
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-20 Delegates: Delaney, Anthony, Runion
• 2025-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 2-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB942ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Impact statement from TAX (SB942)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 152 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6efb127b-d034-409c-abab-1cc547106851. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).