republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-8.md

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Bill	Notary public or electronic notary public; application for recommission.	Notary public or electronic notary public; applicationfor recommission. Removes the requirement that a person applyingfor recommission as a notary public or electronic notary public includein his application an applicant oath, provided that such person isin good standing as a notary public or electronic notary public,and is not subject to any investigation or proceeding, or has neverbeen removed from office. Under current law, persons applying for recommission are required to include such oath.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 8	Virginia SB 8 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bryce E. Reeves	4	37	7	2023-11-20	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/d5e2089a-3db0-430e-a0a8-4df1feb1eba2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB8	eeb383d1cde12b7cec64e60e5cba97408752fa63f94d811aa1496dea4518c108	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 8 (2024) — Notary public or electronic notary public; application for recommission.

Notary public or electronic notary public; applicationfor recommission. Removes the requirement that a person applyingfor recommission as a notary public or electronic notary public includein his application an applicant oath, provided that such person isin good standing as a notary public or electronic notary public,and is not subject to any investigation or proceeding, or has neverbeen removed from office. Under current law, persons applying for recommission are required to include such oath.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0569 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100174D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24100174D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB8ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 1-N) — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-20 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100174D filing, introduction
• 2023-11-20 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-01-11 Impact statement from DPB (SB8)
• 2024-01-15 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-15 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (13-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-17 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-01-17 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-17 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB8E
• 2024-01-17 Printed as engrossed 24100174D-E
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (SB8E)
• 2024-01-18 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-13 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-21 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-21 Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 Passed by temporarily
• 2024-02-23 House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB8ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB8ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 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
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 569 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5e2089a-3db0-430e-a0a8-4df1feb1eba2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).