# Virginia SB9: RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.

Virginia SB9, RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date., is a 2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by David R. Suetterlein (Republican); status in committee, last action 2026-01-20 (Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)) (as of 2026-10-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB9-2026
- As of: 2026-10-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Virginia SB9
- State: Virginia
- Session: 2026 Regular Session
- Title: RS & UT; food for human consumption and essential personal hygiene products, delayed effective date.
- Status: in committee
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-11-17
- Last action: 2026-01-20, Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N)
- Sponsor: David R. Suetterlein (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Finance and Appropriations
- 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 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.

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-01-20 | Senate | Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations | pass | 9 | 5 |   |

## Actions (4)

- 2026-01-20: Continued to 2027 in Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) (Senate)
- 2026-01-17: Fiscal Impact statement From TAX (1/17/2026 10:37 am) (Senate)
- 2025-11-17: Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations (Senate)
- 2025-11-17: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100497D (Senate)

## Bill text

- Introduced, 2025-11-17: [HTML](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1081262.HTML), [PDF](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1081261.PDF)

## Related bills

- HB5: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties. (signed)
- SB199: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties. (signed)
- HB95: Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement. (signed)
- HB1393: Electric utilities; pilot program for energy assistance and weatherization for certain individuals. (signed)
- HB834: Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage, termination by landlord. (signed)
- HB675: Protection of employees; coercion or threat based on immigration status, civil penalty. (signed)

## Sources
- [Introduced (HTML)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1081262.HTML)
- [Introduced (PDF)](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1081261.PDF)

## Related
- [HB5: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB5-2026)
- [SB199: Employment; paid sick leave, civil penalties.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB199-2026)
- [HB95: Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB95-2026)
- [HB1393: Electric utilities; pilot program for energy assistance and weatherization for…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB1393-2026)
- [HB834: Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage, terminat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB834-2026)
- [HB675: Protection of employees; coercion or threat based on immigration status, civil…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-HB675-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/VA-SB9-2026 (as of 2026-10-11).