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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Notary public or electronic notary public; application for recommission."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Virginia SB 8 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-11-20"
last_action: "2024-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5e2089a-3db0-430e-a0a8-4df1feb1eba2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB8"
source_hash: "eeb383d1cde12b7cec64e60e5cba97408752fa63f94d811aa1496dea4518c108"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0569)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100174D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB8)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24100174D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB8E)
4. **SB8ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB8ER)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5e2089a-3db0-430e-a0a8-4df1feb1eba2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).