---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusions, residential home sales between private parties."
description: "Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusions, residential home sales between private parties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 988"
citation: "Virginia SB 988 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peake"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3868481-8b7a-49b4-9f2c-f21c38ba8c0c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB988"
source_hash: "9fcf8c129a15ae4bd45353f5ecf0d01dfa822cb2d39e869e2722e52be8839db7"
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 SB 988 (2023) — Virginia Consumer Protection Act; exclusions, residential home sales between private parties.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0452** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0452)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105558D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB988S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103099D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB988)
4. **SB988ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB988ER)

## Votes

- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 0-N 2-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peake — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103099D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB988)
- **2023-01-25** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-25** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 0-N 2-A) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Committee substitute printed 23105558D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 23105558D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB988S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB988S1)
- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-16** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2023-02-21** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB988ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB988ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 452 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3868481-8b7a-49b4-9f2c-f21c38ba8c0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).