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HB534

Disposable plastic bags; local tax.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Betsy Carr (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Plastic bag fee.

Imposes, beginning July 1, 2021, a statewide fee of five cents per bag on disposable plastic bags provided to consumers of tangible personal property, with certain bags being exempt from the fee. Revenues from the fee are collected by the Tax Commissioner and distributed equally into the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund and the Litter Control and Recycling Fund. The bill also allows every retailer that collects the fee to retain one cent of the five-cent fee, provided that such retailer discounts are accounted for in the form of a deduction when submitting the tax return and the amount due is paid in a timely manner.

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  • Bill History

  • 01/05/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101570D
  • 01/05/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Finance
  • 01/16/2020 - House: Impact statement from TAX (HB534)
  • 01/18/2020 - House: Impact statement from DHCD (HB534)
  • 01/29/2020 - House: Referred from Finance
  • 01/29/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 01/30/2020 - House: Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
  • 02/05/2020 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
  • 02/05/2020 - House: Committee substitute printed 20107686D-H1
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Passed by for the day
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Read second time
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107686D-H1
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB534H1
  • 02/11/2020 - House: Read third time and defeated by House (50-Y 49-N)
  • 02/11/2020 - House: VOTE: DEFEATED (50-Y 49-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/11/2020 - House: Requires 51 affirmative votes for passage
  • 02/11/2020 - House: Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by House
  • 02/11/2020 - House: Passed House (52-Y 46-N)
  • 02/11/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage #2 (52-Y 46-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/12/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/12/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
  • 02/14/2020 - House: Impact statement from TAX (HB534H1)
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108914D-S1
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20108914D-S1
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB534S1
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 18-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/26/2020 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House 20108914D-S1 (0-Y 93-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 93-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Senate insisted on amendments (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/26/2020 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
  • 02/27/2020 - House: House acceded to request
  • 02/27/2020 - House: Conferees appointed by House
  • 02/27/2020 - House: Delegates: Carr, Lopez, Ware
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 02/27/2020 - Senate: Senators: Ebbin, McClellan, Vogel
  • 03/05/2020 - Conference: Amended by conference committee
  • 03/05/2020 - House: Conference substitute printed 20109450D-H2
  • 03/05/2020 - House: Passed by temporarily
  • 03/05/2020 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (52-Y 47-N 1-A)
  • 03/05/2020 - House: VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 47-N 1-A)   Close Floor Vote
  • 03/07/2020 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 18-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 03/18/2020 - House: Enrolled
  • 03/18/2020 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB534ER)
  • 03/18/2020 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/19/2020 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/20/2020 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
  • 03/20/2020 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 03/24/2020 - House: Impact statement from TAX (HB534ER)
  • 04/10/2020 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1022 (effective 7/1/20)
  • 04/10/2020 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1022)

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