republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-413.md

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Bill	Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, etc.	Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into three groups: (i) publication required at least seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; and (iii) publication required three times, with the first notice appearing no more than 35 days before and the third notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action. The bill also standardizes descriptive information in such notices related to (a) proposing, amending, or repealing ordinances; (b) local budget adoption; and (c) zoning ordinances and planning-related actions. This bill is identical to HB 1488.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 413	Virginia SB 413 (2024)	bill		enacted	Christopher T. Head	4	34	8	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/886db64a-519d-4a4c-bdd7-57fe24e32c67	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB413	8fff7f2b6e299f36984293da4f857c0f107f5f7bbabc4e27537e213b508f94a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 413 (2024) — Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, etc.

Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into three groups: (i) publication required at least seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; and (iii) publication required three times, with the first notice appearing no more than 35 days before and the third notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action. The bill also standardizes descriptive information in such notices related to (a) proposing, amending, or repealing ordinances; (b) local budget adoption; and (c) zoning ordinances and planning-related actions. This bill is identical to HB 1488.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0242 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106509D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104953D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB413ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — 98–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
• J.D. "Danny" Diggs — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104953D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-29 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-29 Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Committee substitute printed 24106509D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 24106509D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB413S1 substitution
• 2024-02-01 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-21 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-21 Passed House with amendment (99-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-23 Reconsideration of House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-23 House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB413ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 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
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 242 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/886db64a-519d-4a4c-bdd7-57fe24e32c67. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).