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type: "Bill"
title: "Hearing notice by localities; timely notice related to planning or zoning matter to newspaper, etc."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 869"
citation: "Virginia SB 869 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill DeSteph"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 44
vote_count: 13
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85dce6f1-9555-4f41-a36f-6402bc94c8cb"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB869"
source_hash: "5ac2a8223d3b5c1a7918ef3fc9513d094338b714f3b7b01a878661b3b78d2b13"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0761)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB869ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB869ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB869S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB869S2)
4. **Engrossed by Senate as amended SB869E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB869E)
5. **Impact statement from DHCD (SB869)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB869)
6. **SB869S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB869S1)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **71** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (13-Y 9-N) — **139** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) — **1921** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) — **2119** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 1-N) — **381** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (73-Y 26-N) — **7226** (pass) · lower
- Committee amendments reconsidered (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) — **2119** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government with amendments (10-Y 5-N) — **105** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85dce6f1-9555-4f41-a36f-6402bc94c8cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).