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type: "Bill"
title: "Automatic renewal or continuous service offer to consumer; cancellation and online opt-out."
description: "Automatic renewal or continuous service offerto consumer; cancellation and online opt-out. Requires that the supplier of automatic renewals or continuous service offers thatinclude a free trial notify the consumer of the automatic renewalseven days prior to expiration of the free trial and obtain the consumer'saffirmative consent to the automatic renewal beyond the trial period.The bill also requires that suppliers of automatic renewals or continuousservice offers through an online website must make available a conspicuousonline option to cancel a recurring purchase of a good or servicewithin the website by which such purchase was made."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 78"
citation: "Virginia HB 78 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glenn R. Davis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e138506a-5c9b-404a-bc63-f4c112d46b46"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB78"
source_hash: "adc44b8d71e1e3a885fc846033dec7083d22dc06629953c9b0dd686a3cefe2c4"
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 78 (2022) — Automatic renewal or continuous service offer to consumer; cancellation and online opt-out.
Automatic renewal or continuous service offerto consumer; cancellation and online opt-out. Requires that the supplier of automatic renewals or continuous service offers thatinclude a free trial notify the consumer of the automatic renewalseven days prior to expiration of the free trial and obtain the consumer'saffirmative consent to the automatic renewal beyond the trial period.The bill also requires that suppliers of automatic renewals or continuousservice offers through an online website must make available a conspicuousonline option to cancel a recurring purchase of a good or servicewithin the website by which such purchase was made.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0557** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0557)
2. **HB78ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB78ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101883D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB78)
4. **Printed as engrossed 22101883D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB78E)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Glenn R. Davis — primary (person)
- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
- Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
- Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
- Ronnie R. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Sally L. Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
- Wren M. Williams — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101883D `introduction`
- **2022-01-04** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB78)
- **2022-01-20** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-20** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-25** Reported from Commerce and Energy with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-28** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-01-28** Engrossed by House as amended HB78E
- **2022-01-28** Printed as engrossed 22101883D-E
- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (HB78E)
- **2022-01-31** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-01** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Reading of amendments waived
- **2022-03-03** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-03-03** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2022-03-03** Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Passed by temporarily
- **2022-03-07** Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB78ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 557 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e138506a-5c9b-404a-bc63-f4c112d46b46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).