republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-166.md

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Bill	Financial institutions; consumer has option of completing certain payments electronically.	Financial institutions; certain payments required electronically. Requires any financial institution that initiates an electronic fund transfer as payment for the sale to a consumer of a security issued by such financial institution to make available to the consumer the option of completing any payment of principal, interest, dividend, or other distribution related to the security via an electronic fund transfer.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 166	Virginia SB 166 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bryce E. Reeves	4	31	6	2024-01-07	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/038244b5-ab55-4168-ade3-48b21798b3e3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB166	fd520e1855eaca1c35b7ae70e07d28ab7c7a3b0bf3cead83949e8d2b1e774084	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 166 (2024) — Financial institutions; consumer has option of completing certain payments electronically.

Financial institutions; certain payments required electronically. Requires any financial institution that initiates an electronic fund transfer as payment for the sale to a consumer of a security issued by such financial institution to make available to the consumer the option of completing any payment of principal, interest, dividend, or other distribution related to the security via an electronic fund transfer.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0422 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102017D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24102017D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB166ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102017D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from SCC (SB166)
• 2024-01-22 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (13-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-25 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-01-25 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-25 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB166E
• 2024-01-25 Printed as engrossed 24102017D-E
• 2024-01-26 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 Impact statement from SCC (SB166E)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB166ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from SCC (SB166ER)
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/038244b5-ab55-4168-ade3-48b21798b3e3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).