republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1488.md

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Bill	Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, etc.	Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into three groups: (i) publication required at least seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; and (iii) publication required three times, with the first notice appearing no more than 35 days before and the third notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action. The bill also standardizes descriptive information in such notices related to (a) proposing, amending, or repealing ordinances; (b) local budget adoption; and (c) zoning ordinances and planning-related actions. This bill is identical to SB 413.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1488	Virginia HB 1488 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rozia A. Henson, Jr.	4	31	7	2024-01-19	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/4f9ad03e-6fae-4f25-9ebc-9d5781d0c3ce	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1488	92a40b2b5829e6a67ed074a4d9c2ebea9e04945321e1368a46502e25803392f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1488 (2024) — Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, etc.

Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into three groups: (i) publication required at least seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; and (iii) publication required three times, with the first notice appearing no more than 35 days before and the third notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action. The bill also standardizes descriptive information in such notices related to (a) proposing, amending, or repealing ordinances; (b) local budget adoption; and (c) zoning ordinances and planning-related actions. This bill is identical to SB 413.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0225 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107775D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1488ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Presented and ordered printed 24105792D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 24105792D introduction
• 2024-01-19 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-19 Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Committee substitute printed 24107775D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-21 Committee substitute agreed to 24107775D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-21 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1488S1 substitution
• 2024-02-21 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24107775D-S1 (96-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-23 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1488ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 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 225 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f9ad03e-6fae-4f25-9ebc-9d5781d0c3ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).