# Virginia SB1172: RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.

Virginia SB1172, RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by David R. Suetterlein (Republican); status failed, last action 2025-01-23 (Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)) (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Virginia SB1172
- State: Virginia
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-01-07
- Last action: 2025-01-23, Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)
- Sponsor: David R. Suetterlein (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 1 (9 yes, 5 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

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 currently 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, 2026.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: David R. Suetterlein (Republican), Senate

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations | pass | 9 | 5 |   |

## Actions (4)

- 2025-01-23: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) (Senate)
- 2025-01-19: Impact statement from TAX (SB1172) (Senate)
- 2025-01-07: Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations (Senate)
- 2025-01-07: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104584D (Senate)

## Bill text

- Introduced, 2025-01-07: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018441.HTML), [PDF](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018440.PDF)

## Related bills

- HR671: Commending JR's Auto Care. (adopted)
- SB941: Robbery; use of air or gas operated weapon, etc., penalty. (failed)
- HB1746: Public safety officer; definition. (failed)
- HB1600: Budget Bill. (failed)
- SB1449: Data centers; site assessment for high energy use facility. (failed)
- HB1609: Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for infertility treatment. (to governor)

## Sources
- [Introduced (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018441.HTML)
- [Introduced (PDF)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018440.PDF)

## Related
- [HR671: Commending JR's Auto Care.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HR671-2025)
- [SB941: Robbery; use of air or gas operated weapon, etc., penalty.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB941-2025)
- [HB1746: Public safety officer; definition.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB1746-2025)
- [HB1600: Budget Bill.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB1600-2025)
- [SB1449: Data centers; site assessment for high energy use facility.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB1449-2025)
- [HB1609: Essential health benefits benchmark plan; Commission to consider coverage for i…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB1609-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB1172-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).