republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-947.md

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Bill	Local government; regulation by ordinance for locations of tobacco products, etc.	Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking for any such retail sale location and may prohibit a retail sale location on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day center or a public, private, or parochial school.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 947	Virginia HB 947 (2024)	bill		enacted	Alfonso H. Lopez	4	27	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/6878e1bc-6d12-49be-8697-01dd58a6e847	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB947	4203f08a26b2878e2b66c4ee387735f1c4a18035582aa57e1188373fa66b7929	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 947 (2024) — Local government; regulation by ordinance for locations of tobacco products, etc.

Local government powers; regulation of tobacco, nicotine, and hemp product retail sale locations. Allows a locality to regulate the retail sale locations of tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking for any such retail sale location and may prohibit a retail sale location on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day center or a public, private, or parochial school.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0536 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106162D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB947ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101420D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alfonso H. Lopez — primary (person)
• Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Stella G. Pekarsky — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101420D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Committee substitute printed 24106162D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 24106162D-H1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB947H1 substitution
• 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 Reported from Local Government (15-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 (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB947ER) 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
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 536 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6878e1bc-6d12-49be-8697-01dd58a6e847. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).