Virginia House Bill 2185 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-4)
Status: Passed on March 11 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-03-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Sales tax; exemption for personal protective equipment; emergency. Establishes a retail sales and use tax exemption for personal protective equipment, defined in the bill. The exemption is available to any business that has in place a COVID-19 safety protocol that complies with the Emergency Temporary Standard promulgated by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry and that meets other criteria. The exemption sunsets on the first day following the expiration of the last executive order issued by the Governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the termination of the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard and any permanent COVID-19 regulations adopted by the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board.

Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for personal protective equipment.

Del. Kathy Byron [R]	Del. Terry Austin [R]	Del. John Avoli [R]	Del. Amanda Batten [R]
Del. Robert Bell [R]	Del. Ronnie Campbell [R]	Del. Hyland Fowler [R]	Del. Terry Kilgore [R]
Del. Daniel Marshall [R]	Sen. John McGuire [R]	Del. Margaret Ransone [R]	Del. David Reid [D]
Del. Roxann Robinson [R]	Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Luke Torian [D]	Del. Kathy Tran [D]
Del. Roslyn Tyler [D]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Michael Webert [R]	Del. Bill Wiley [R]
Del. Thomas Wright [R]

2021-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2021-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-01 - House - House: Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-11		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055)
2021-03-11		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 55 (effective 3/11/21)
2021-02-25		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
2021-02-25	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
2021-02-24	House	Signed by Speaker
2021-02-22	Senate	Signed by President
2021-02-22	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2185ER)
2021-02-22	House	Enrolled
2021-02-17	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-17	Senate	Read third time
2021-02-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2021-02-16	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
2021-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2021-02-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2021-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2021-02-05	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2021-02-05	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2021-02-04	House	Read second time and engrossed
2021-02-03	House	Read first time
2021-02-03	House	Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
2021-02-01	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2021-02-01	House	Reported from Finance (22-Y 0-N)
2021-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2021-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
2021-01-16	House	Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #1
2021-01-13	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2021-01-13	House	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21 21102420D

HB2185 (Carry Over) 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
SB1403 (Same As) 2021-03-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056)
SB1403 (Same As) 2021-03-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	609.14	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2185
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2185+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2185ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0055+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB2185F161+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB2185FER161+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H02C0104+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+HC1472+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S05C0194+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H1001C0010+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H10C0042+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S05V0014+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0072HB2185+HB2185
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0080HB2185+HB2185