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Bill	Hearing notice by localities; timely notice related to planning or zoning matter to newspaper, etc.	Hearing notice by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality in Planning District 23 has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met certain notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 166.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 869	Virginia SB 869 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bill DeSteph	6	44	13	2020-01-08	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/85dce6f1-9555-4f41-a36f-6402bc94c8cb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB869	5ac2a8223d3b5c1a7918ef3fc9513d094338b714f3b7b01a878661b3b78d2b13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 869 (2020) — Hearing notice by localities; timely notice related to planning or zoning matter to newspaper, etc.

Hearing notice by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality in Planning District 23 has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met certain notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 166.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB869ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB869S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB869E (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DHCD (SB869) (committee substitute) — source
6. SB869S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) — 19–21 (fail) · upper
• Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) — 21–19 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (73-Y 26-N) — 72–26 (pass) · lower
• Committee amendments reconsidered (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) — 21–19 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government with amendments (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill DeSteph — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103684D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2020-01-18 Impact statement from DHCD (SB869)
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Local Government with amendments (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-01-29 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-01-29 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB869E
• 2020-01-29 Printed as engrossed 20103684D-E
• 2020-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2020-01-31 Floor substitute printed 20107359D-S1 (DeSteph)
• 2020-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-03 Floor substitute printed 20107526D-S2 (DeSteph)
• 2020-02-03 Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Committee amendments reconsidered (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Committee amendments rejected
• 2020-02-03 Substitute by Senator withdrawn 20107359D-S1
• 2020-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-03 Substitute by Senator DeSteph agreed to 20107526D-S2
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB869S2
• 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-03 Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) passage
• 2020-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) failure
• 2020-02-04 Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-04 Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) passage
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-21 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-26 VOTE: Passage (73-Y 26-N)
• 2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-26 Passed House (73-Y 23-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled
• 2020-03-05 Signed by President
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 761 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85dce6f1-9555-4f41-a36f-6402bc94c8cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).