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| Bill | Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications, requirements. | Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement instead may be published in an online-only news publication subject to certain requirements specified in the bill. The bill sets out a process by which an online-only news publication shall petition the circuit court of the appropriate jurisdiction to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements and authorizes the court to grant such online-only news publication the authority to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements for a period of one year. The bill also describes the process by which an online-only news publication may continue renewing such authority to publish in each successive year. This bill is identical to SB 157. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2024 | HB 264 | Virginia HB 264 (2024) |
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Virginia HB 264 (2024) — Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications, requirements.
Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement instead may be published in an online-only news publication subject to certain requirements specified in the bill. The bill sets out a process by which an online-only news publication shall petition the circuit court of the appropriate jurisdiction to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements and authorizes the court to grant such online-only news publication the authority to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements for a period of one year. The bill also describes the process by which an online-only news publication may continue renewing such authority to publish in each successive year. This bill is identical to SB 157.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0277 (committee substitute) — source
- HB264ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104158D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104158D
filing, introduction - 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2024-01-25 Assigned Courts sub: Civil
referral-committee - 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
referral-committee - 2024-02-02 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2024-02-06 Read first time
reading-1 - 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
passage - 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2024-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice (11-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 (38-Y 2-N)
passage - 2024-02-27 Enrolled
enrolled - 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB264ER)
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 - 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 277 (effective 7/1/24)
executive-signature - 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5eba8200-7ad7-4b95-88d2-6a081509c1b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).