republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-128.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Door-to-door vendors; local regulation, political parties exempted.	Local regulation of door-to-door vendors; politicalparties exempted. Provides that local ordinances regulating theactivities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any personparticipating in certain specified political activities.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 128	Virginia HB 128 (2024)	bill		enacted	Vivian E. Watts	3	23	6	2024-01-01	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/2648b93b-585d-4dfa-8f3d-9f67d1ff2dc2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB128	f91225e7b3e7e636f6315b207b4b560fbeab9dafa71cdb253bfeae8d691ac6a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 128 (2024) — Door-to-door vendors; local regulation, political parties exempted.

Local regulation of door-to-door vendors; politicalparties exempted. Provides that local ordinances regulating theactivities of door-to-door vendors shall not apply to any personparticipating in certain specified political activities.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0172 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB128ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102435D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Vivian E. Watts — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102435D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-01 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-19 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-25 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-25 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-26 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB128ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 172 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0172)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2648b93b-585d-4dfa-8f3d-9f67d1ff2dc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).