republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2541.md

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Bill	Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility, definitions, procurement requirements.	Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in the bill, for all persons with disabilities. The bill permits the head of each covered entity, defined in the bill, to designate an employee to serve as such covered entity's digital accessibility coordinator and provides that such digital accessibility coordinator is responsible for developing and implementing such covered entity's digital accessibility policy. The bill has delayed effective dates of April 24, 2026, and April 26, 2027, for specific covered entities according to population size.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2541	Virginia HB 2541 (2025)	bill		enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	7	45	11	2025-01-09	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/50eac0b2-40c0-45d2-a567-9c4b498b6442	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2541	76606a3b285a03e7072438011acf8da5dde97d9272a5a95387808c914e356ac5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2541 (2025) — Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility, definitions, procurement requirements.

Information Technology Access Act; digital accessibility. Makes numerous organizational changes to the Information Technology Access Act. The bill defines "information and communications technology" as it relates to digital accessibility, defined in the bill, for all persons with disabilities. The bill permits the head of each covered entity, defined in the bill, to designate an employee to serve as such covered entity's digital accessibility coordinator and provides that such digital accessibility coordinator is responsible for developing and implementing such covered entity's digital accessibility policy. The bill has delayed effective dates of April 24, 2026, and April 26, 2027, for specific covered entities according to population size.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Communications, Technology and Innovation Substitute Reported (committee substitute) — source
5. General Laws and Technology Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (19-Y 3-N) — 19–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104578D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-09 Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Assigned CT & I sub: Technology and Innovation referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2541)
• 2025-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-27 Committee substitute printed 25105726D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-27 Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with substitute and referred to Appropriations (19-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Impact statement from CLG (HB2541)
• 2025-01-28 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2541)
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106627D-H2 substitution
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2541)
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Passed by temporarily
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Communications, Technology and Innovation Substitute Reported rejected
• 2025-02-03 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Reading of amendments waived
• 2025-02-20 General Laws and Technology Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2541ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2541)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 571 (Effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0571)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50eac0b2-40c0-45d2-a567-9c4b498b6442. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).