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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for audiovisual productions and equipment."
description: "Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for audiovisual productions and equipment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1543"
citation: "Virginia HB 1543 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sales and Use Tax", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-28"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e647d8ba-6647-49c5-8343-1f14a2924c93"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1543"
source_hash: "0ef55cb4d56a210c6f30b307a00364185ba336c31cb156206dc3d295a6199a6e"
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 HB 1543 (2017) — Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for audiovisual productions and equipment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0412)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1543ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1543ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102259D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1543)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House — **905** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **192** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102259D `introduction`
- **2016-12-28** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (90-Y 5-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 412 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e647d8ba-6647-49c5-8343-1f14a2924c93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).