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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Consumer Protection Act; automatic renewal or continuous service offers."
+description: "Virginia Consumer Protection Act; automatic renewal or continuous service offers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1517"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1517 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adams, D.M."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2023-01-04"
+last_action: "2023-03-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/747eb934-7fba-4bb5-a8df-34706fb950ce"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1517"
+source_hash: "48e02eaa73f0b6197f3a386081c5db70811cb66c9279f40a837608c584ec8a11"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1517 (2023) — Virginia Consumer Protection Act; automatic renewal or continuous service offers.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0688** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0688)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23106505D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1517S1)
+3. **HB1517ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1517ER)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101938D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1517)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adams, D.M. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101938D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-04** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1517)
+- **2023-01-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-19** Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-01-26** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-08** Committee substitute printed 23106505D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB1517S1)
+- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2023-02-13** Committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
+- **2023-02-13** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2023-02-13** Amendments by Senator Surovell agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-13** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments HB1517S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Senate substitute with amendments agreed to by House 23106519D-S1 (97-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage, substitution`
+- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1517ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB1517ER)
+- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/747eb934-7fba-4bb5-a8df-34706fb950ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+