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type: "Bill"
title: "Property Owners' Association Act; association meetings, notice by email."
description: "Allows members of property owners' associations to elect to receive notice of meetings of the association by email in lieu of the current requirement that such notice be sent by United States mail or hand delivered, provided that in the event that such electronic mail is returned as undeliverable, notice is subsequently sent by United States mail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2694"
citation: "Virginia HB 2694 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Cole"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ea23465-57a1-4d8c-ade4-b48add3a1a3f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2694"
source_hash: "c1fe22c60f7cedf78cdafd22e300a00d37608e0f6b3701a5ca5f1967d5489fac"
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 HB 2694 (2019) — Property Owners' Association Act; association meetings, notice by email.
Allows members of property owners' associations to elect to receive notice of meetings of the association by email in lieu of the current requirement that such notice be sent by United States mail or hand delivered, provided that in the event that such electronic mail is returned as undeliverable, notice is subsequently sent by United States mail.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0368)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0368)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2694AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2694)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2694ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2694ER)
5. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104198D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2694)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19104198D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2694E)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **3010** (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **131** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 19104198D `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB2694E
- **2019-01-29** Printed as engrossed 19104198D-E
- **2019-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 368 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ea23465-57a1-4d8c-ade4-b48add3a1a3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).