Virginia House Bill 13

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 11)
Status: Introduced on December 19 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2026-02-11 - Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sales and use tax; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products. Eliminates the remaining one percent local sales and use tax that is imposed on food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products beginning on July 1, 2026. Under current law, no other sales and use tax is applied to such products. The bill requires an equivalent amount of revenue to be distributed to cities and counties on a monthly basis in compensation for the lost tax revenue.

RS and UT; food purchased for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products.

Del. Joseph McNamara [R]	Del. Mike Cherry [R]	Del. Mitchell Cornett [R]	Del. Hyland Fowler [R]
Del. Karen Hamilton [R]	Del. Terry Kilgore [R]	Del. Ellen McLaughlin [R]	Del. Delores Oates [R]
Del. Phillip Scott [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Eric Zehr [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-02-11	House	Continued to next session in Finance (Voice Vote)
2026-02-09	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote)
2026-02-06	House	House subcommittee offered
2026-02-05	House	Assigned HFIN sub: Subcommittee #3
2026-01-28	House	Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/28/2026 7:34 pm)
2025-12-19	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2025-12-19	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102063D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB13
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB13/text/HB13
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB13/text/HB13AHC1
Supplement	https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1100519.PDF