republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1338.md

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Bill	Courthouses; website posting of notices.	Courthouse and website posting of notices.Provides that, effective July 1, 2025, if any notice, summons,order, or other official document of any type is required to be postedpursuant to a provision of the Code on or at the front door of acourthouse or on a public bulletin board at a courthouse, it shall constitute compliance with this requirement if such document is(i) posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or the website of any court, court clerk, sheriff, orcommissioner of accounts of the locality or (ii) posted with suchother documents at or near the principal public entrance to the courthousein a location that is conspicuous to the public and approved by thechief judge of the circuit in which the courthouse is situated. Underthe law as it currently will become effective July 1, 2025, for thewebsite posting the document must be posted on either the publicgovernment website of the locality served by the court or the websiteof the circuit court clerk.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1338	Virginia HB 1338 (2024)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	4	29	7	2024-01-12	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a2525f5e-20b0-4060-9cd0-4b106b14661c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1338	14c53f7c5f90f1230da27b513d7433b25fd326ec01f840ba52c6135ebb8176e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1338 (2024) — Courthouses; website posting of notices.

Courthouse and website posting of notices.Provides that, effective July 1, 2025, if any notice, summons,order, or other official document of any type is required to be postedpursuant to a provision of the Code on or at the front door of acourthouse or on a public bulletin board at a courthouse, it shall constitute compliance with this requirement if such document is(i) posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or the website of any court, court clerk, sheriff, orcommissioner of accounts of the locality or (ii) posted with suchother documents at or near the principal public entrance to the courthousein a location that is conspicuous to the public and approved by thechief judge of the circuit in which the courthouse is situated. Underthe law as it currently will become effective July 1, 2025, for thewebsite posting the document must be posted on either the publicgovernment website of the locality served by the court or the websiteof the circuit court clerk.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0655 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108562D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1338ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Presented and ordered printed 24104262D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-12 Presented and ordered printed 24104262D introduction
• 2024-01-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Committee substitute printed 24108562D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 24108562D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1338S1 substitution
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108562D-S1 (100-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-03-05 VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1338ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 655 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2525f5e-20b0-4060-9cd0-4b106b14661c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).