SB 10 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Exempting certain meat processes from consumers sales and service tax

SB 10 exempts specific meat processing activities from state sales tax, directly affecting meat processors who handle certain types of meat (like grinding or curing). The bill removes the tax requirement for these defined processes, making them tax-free under current law. This is a procedural tax exemption change with no new fees or requirements for businesses.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
Aug 2025
Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Signed Aug 8, 2025
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sb10 sfa thorne _1 3-24 adopted.htm Enrolled Committee Substitute · 1 edit · May 1, 2025
MINOR
The bill adds a new exemption for slaughterhouses processing beef, pork, goat, or lamb from the state's consumers sales and service tax. This change expands the list of tax-exempt agricultural activities to include goat processing, alongside existing exemptions for beef, pork, and lamb, aiming to reduce costs for local meat processors.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to include goat processing under the existing slaughterhouse tax exemption, whereas previously only beef, pork, and lamb were explicitly listed.
ELIGIBILITY

Added 'goat' to the list of livestock whose processing by a slaughterhouse is exempt from the consumers sales and service tax.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 26, 2025 · House of Delegates Apr 4, 2025

How they voted

321
Passed
Total votes 33
Mar 26, 2025
D Democratic2
2 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican31
30 Yea 1 Nay
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
39
Key actions
6
Committee
5
Apr 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House (Roll No. 387)
lower
Mar 26, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
Title amendment adopted
upper
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Roll No. 175)
upper
Mar 25, 2025
Upper · Passed
Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
upper
Mar 24, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported do pass
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Committee
To Finance
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Committee
To Agriculture
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Committee
To Agriculture then Finance
upper
0 primary · 4 co-sponsors

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