republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-521.md

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Bill	Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee.	Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneedfuneral guarantee fee. Defines "declinable preneed funeral guaranteefee" as an optional and declinable fee agreed to by a preneed funeralcontract purchaser, if offered by a seller, for which the cost ofthe supplies and services as described in the preneed funeral contractare guaranteed. The bill describes certain requirements that mustbe met for funeral service licensees to offer declinable preneedfuneral guarantee fees. The bill directs the Board of Funeral Directorsand Embalmers to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisionsof the bill.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 521	Virginia SB 521 (2024)	bill		enacted	Angelia Williams Graves	3	31	9	2024-01-09	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d978f158-be49-4241-a00d-d77a12df5741	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB521	ec7ff7f03136ca057f29b4d0952d0162ff677d2cbbde0060ef3638964d3e550d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 521 (2024) — Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneed funeral guarantee fee.

Preneed funeral contracts; declinable preneedfuneral guarantee fee. Defines "declinable preneed funeral guaranteefee" as an optional and declinable fee agreed to by a preneed funeralcontract purchaser, if offered by a seller, for which the cost ofthe supplies and services as described in the preneed funeral contractare guaranteed. The bill describes certain requirements that mustbe met for funeral service licensees to offer declinable preneedfuneral guarantee fees. The bill directs the Board of Funeral Directorsand Embalmers to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisionsof the bill.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0247 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104409D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB521ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
• Referred from General Laws — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health and Human Services (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104409D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB521)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 2-N)
• 2024-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2024-01-31 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 General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Referred from General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Assigned sub: Health referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Health and Human Services (21-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 (SB521ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB521ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 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 247 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d978f158-be49-4241-a00d-d77a12df5741. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).