republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-782.md

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Bill	Virginia Human Rights Act; complaint or charge of discrimination, right to file civil action.	Virginia Human Rights Act; dual-filed civilactions. Clarifies timelines for dual-filing complaints allegingunlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act and theU.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bill allows eitherthe complainant or the respondent for any charge of discriminationto request a notice of the right to file a civil action after theCommission has closed its file on such charge of discrimination.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 782	Virginia HB 782 (2024)	bill		enacted	Charniele L. Herring	5	45	9	2024-01-09	2024-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/af126dd8-459e-4f2f-9be6-d77e459b1c26	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB782	f48059bb3b2bc8872d58f4d2607151d02db0942cbdb1c201507aae1b3112e76a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 782 (2024) — Virginia Human Rights Act; complaint or charge of discrimination, right to file civil action.

Virginia Human Rights Act; dual-filed civilactions. Clarifies timelines for dual-filing complaints allegingunlawful discrimination under the Virginia Human Rights Act and theU.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bill allows eitherthe complainant or the respondent for any charge of discriminationto request a notice of the right to file a civil action after theCommission has closed its file on such charge of discrimination.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0819 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB782ER (committee substitute) — source
3. HB782ER2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102623D (committee substitute) — source
5. Printed as engrossed 24102623D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• BLOCK VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (90-Y 5-N) — 89–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102623D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB782)
• 2024-02-08 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-08 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House as amended HB782E
• 2024-02-12 Printed as engrossed 24102623D-E
• 2024-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (HB782E)
• 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 on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-21 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-26 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-26 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Senate amendments agreed to by House (90-Y 5-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Adoption (90-Y 5-N)
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB782ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB782ER)
• 2024-03-05 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 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
• 2024-04-08 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2024-04-17 House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 BLOCK VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled bill text (HB782ER2) enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 819 (effective 7/1/24) became-law
• 2024-04-17 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af126dd8-459e-4f2f-9be6-d77e459b1c26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).