Virginia House Bill 1381 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on December 12 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-05 - Left in Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Plastic bag tax. Imposes a tax of five cents ($0.05) beginning on July 1, 2014, on plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property purchased in grocery stores, convenience stores, or drug stores. Durable, reusable plastic bags and bags used for ice cream, meat, fish, poultry, leftover restaurant food, newspapers, dry cleaning, and prescription drugs are exempt from the tax. Retailers are allowed to retain one cent ($0.01) of the five-cent ($0.05) tax or two cents ($0.02) if the retailer has a customer bag credit program. Failure to collect and remit the tax will result in fines of $250, $500, and $1,000 for the first, second, and third and subsequent offenses, respectively. The revenues from the tax would be deposited into the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund.

Plastic bags; imposes $0.05 tax beginning 7/1/14 on those used by purchasers to carry certain goods.

Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

Del. James Scott [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Left in Finance
2013-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2013-01-14	House	Assigned Finance sub: #1
2012-12-12	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2012-12-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101393D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	1742	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1746	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1381
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1381+hil