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type: "Bill"
title: "Door-to-door vendors; local regulation, political parties exempted."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 128"
citation: "Virginia HB 128 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vivian E. Watts"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-01"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2648b93b-585d-4dfa-8f3d-9f67d1ff2dc2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB128"
source_hash: "f91225e7b3e7e636f6315b207b4b560fbeab9dafa71cdb253bfeae8d691ac6a8"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0172)
2. **HB128ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB128ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102435D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB128)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2648b93b-585d-4dfa-8f3d-9f67d1ff2dc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).