Food and beverage or meals tax; discount for collection.
Summary
Food and beverage tax; meals tax; discount.Allows a county, city, or town to provide a commission to a businessfor collecting and remitting to the locality a meals tax or a foodand beverage tax regardless of whether the business is delinquenton the collection and remittance of such tax. The rate of such commissionshall be set by ordinance and shall not exceed the amount of taxdue.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 19, 2024
Last action Feb 27, 2024
Floor votes · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2024
How they voted
97–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 98
Feb 13, 2024
D
Democratic49
100% Yea
R
Republican49
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Amendments
2
Feb 14, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 12, 2024
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB1535E
lower
Feb 12, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 7, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Finance with amendment(s) (18-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Feb 2, 2024
Committee
Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 24105288D
lower
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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