republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1212.md

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Bill	Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure.	Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure. Prohibits a supplier, in connection with a consumer transaction, from advertising or displaying a price for goods or services without clearly and conspicuously displaying the total price, which shall include all mandatory fees or surcharges, as defined in the bill. The bill specifies the requirements for compliance with its provisions for certain suppliers and excludes from its provisions (i) certain fees charged by motor vehicle dealers, as defined in relevant law; (ii) fees charged by electric utilities, natural gas utilities, and telecommunications service providers, as those terms are defined in relevant law; (iii) certain costs associated with real estate settlement services; and (iv) the provision of air transportation by air carriers. The bill requires a food delivery platform to (a) at the point when a consumer views and selects a vendor or items for purchase, include a clear and conspicuous disclosure of any additional fee or percentage charged, as defined in the bill, and (b) after a consumer selects items for purchase, but prior to checkout, display a subtotal page that itemizes the price of such selected items and any additional fee or percentage included in the total cost. This bill is identical to HB 2515.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1212	Virginia SB 1212 (2025)	bill		enacted	Stella G. Pekarsky	7	43	7	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/54092b6c-8bab-4ae0-85aa-8541ef22cd06	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1212	b503be0866e4a2684690c47b86a4e2c2f88acc5d33fb7aa06a3a99d4b6f789ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1212 (2025) — Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure.

Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees or surcharges disclosure. Prohibits a supplier, in connection with a consumer transaction, from advertising or displaying a price for goods or services without clearly and conspicuously displaying the total price, which shall include all mandatory fees or surcharges, as defined in the bill. The bill specifies the requirements for compliance with its provisions for certain suppliers and excludes from its provisions (i) certain fees charged by motor vehicle dealers, as defined in relevant law; (ii) fees charged by electric utilities, natural gas utilities, and telecommunications service providers, as those terms are defined in relevant law; (iii) certain costs associated with real estate settlement services; and (iv) the provision of air transportation by air carriers. The bill requires a food delivery platform to (a) at the point when a consumer views and selects a vendor or items for purchase, include a clear and conspicuous disclosure of any additional fee or percentage charged, as defined in the bill, and (b) after a consumer selects items for purchase, but prior to checkout, display a subtotal page that itemizes the price of such selected items and any additional fee or percentage included in the total cost. This bill is identical to HB 2515.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. General Laws and Technology Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Labor and Commerce Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House with substitute (50-Y 47-N) — 50–47 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (17-Y 23-N) — 17–23 (fail) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 9-N) — 12–9 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)
• David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101034D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1212)
• 2025-01-22 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-22 Committee substitute printed 25105788D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-22 Substitute bill reprinted 25105788D
• 2025-01-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1212)
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-27 General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (12-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-06 Committee substitute printed 25106447D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1212)
• 2025-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Labor and Commerce Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-12 Passed House with substitute (50-Y 47-N) passage
• 2025-02-14 House substitute agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1212ER) passage
• 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1212)
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (SB1212S2)
• 2025-03-25 Governor's substitute printed (SB1212S2)
• 2025-04-02 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (17-Y 23-N) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 686 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54092b6c-8bab-4ae0-85aa-8541ef22cd06. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).