HB 703 — RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.
VA 20261 session
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. 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. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027.
Latest action: — Continued
Sponsors (32)
- Anne Ferrell Tata (R, VA) — sponsor
- Jason S. Ballard (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Mike A. Cherry (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Mitchell Cornett (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Will Davis (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Timothy P. Griffin (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen Hamilton (R, VA) — cosponsor
- M. Keith Hodges (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Hillary Pugh Kent (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Terry G. Kilgore (R, VA) — cosponsor
- James A. "Jay" Leftwich (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Ellen H. McLaughlin (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Joseph P. McNamara (R, VA) — cosponsor
- James W. Morefield (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Delores Oates (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Israel D. O'Quinn (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Justin Pence (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Eric Phillips (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Chris S. Runion (R, VA) — cosponsor
- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Wendell S. Walker (R, VA) — cosponsor
- R. Lee Ware (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Michael J. Webert (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Madison Whittle (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Bill Wiley (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Wren M. Williams (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Tony O. Wilt (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Scott A. Wyatt (R, VA) — cosponsor
- Eric R. Zehr (R, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (6)
- · house · H4020 —
- · house · H1001 —
- · house · H8500 —
- · house · H1012 —
- · house · H1043 —
- · house · H1040 —
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Connected on the graph
1 typed relationship in the influence graph — 0 inbound, 1 outbound, grouped by type.
referred to committee (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | → | HFIN Sub: Subcommittee #3 | — | va-leg |
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anne Ferrell Tata (R, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Bill Wiley (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Chris S. Runion (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Delores Oates (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Ellen H. McLaughlin (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Eric Phillips (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Eric R. Zehr (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Hillary Pugh Kent (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Israel D. O'Quinn (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | James A. "Jay" Leftwich (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | James W. Morefield (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Jason S. Ballard (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Joseph P. McNamara (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Justin Pence (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 17 | Karen Hamilton (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 18 | M. Keith Hodges (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 19 | Madison Whittle (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 20 | Michael J. Webert (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 21 | Mike A. Cherry (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 22 | Mitchell Cornett (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 23 | R. Lee Ware (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 24 | Scott A. Wyatt (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 25 | Terry G. Kilgore (R, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Timeline
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- 2026-05-24 · was referred to HFIN Sub: Subcommittee #3 · va-leg