republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-744.md

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Bill	Consumer protection; automatic renewal or continuous service offers.	Consumer protection; automatic renewal or continuous service offers. Requires a supplier making automatic renewal or continuous service offers that automatically renew after more than 30 days and extend the automatic renewal or continuous service offer for a period of more than 12 months to notify the consumer, as defined in the bill, of the option to cancel no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days before the cancellation deadline or the end of the current contract term.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 744	Virginia HB 744 (2024)	bill		enacted	Michelle Lopes Maldonado	5	39	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/accfaa0e-1809-4623-906c-a3bd2ef8edc2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB744	f3cd1403ab813f27101f303f8f351abcd9ef15af4a4893fe66fd40abb9a3e45c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 744 (2024) — Consumer protection; automatic renewal or continuous service offers.

Consumer protection; automatic renewal or continuous service offers. Requires a supplier making automatic renewal or continuous service offers that automatically renew after more than 30 days and extend the automatic renewal or continuous service offer for a period of more than 12 months to notify the consumer, as defined in the bill, of the option to cancel no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days before the cancellation deadline or the end of the current contract term.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0452 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106198D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24108290D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB744ER (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102502D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (89-Y 10-N) — 88–10 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (90-Y 7-N) — 89–7 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102502D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB744)
• 2024-01-25 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-30 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Committee substitute printed 24106198D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Committee substitute agreed to 24106198D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB744H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB744H1)
• 2024-02-05 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (89-Y 10-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Passage (89-Y 10-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-26 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Committee substitute printed 24108290D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-29 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-29 Committee substitute agreed to 24108290D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-29 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB744S1 substitution
• 2024-02-29 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB744S1)
• 2024-03-04 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108290D-S1 (90-Y 7-N) substitution
• 2024-03-04 VOTE: Adoption (90-Y 7-N)
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB744ER) passage
• 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB744ER)
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-08 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
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 452 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/accfaa0e-1809-4623-906c-a3bd2ef8edc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).