republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-677.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Posting of notices; electronic posting on public government website of the locality, etc."
description: "Posting of notices; electronic posting. Requires any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type that is required to be posted on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulletin board at the courthouse to also be posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or on the website of the circuit court clerk. Under current law, the website posting is sufficient when such official document is required to be posted at the courthouse. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 677"
citation: "Virginia HB 677 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1c8ecaf-14a3-4402-915e-1d27ae5e5f82"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB677"
source_hash: "9e063652eb50894164218f8ec04f9b71ce79bd316ccce456ef66565a124f1e02"
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 677 (2022) — Posting of notices; electronic posting on public government website of the locality, etc.

Posting of notices; electronic posting. Requires any notice, summons, order, or other official document of any type that is required to be posted on or at the front door of a courthouse or on a public bulletin board at the courthouse to also be posted on the public government website of the locality served by the court or on the website of the circuit court clerk. Under current law, the website posting is sufficient when such official document is required to be posted at the courthouse. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0683** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0683)
2. **HB677ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB677ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101576D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB677)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred from General Laws — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101576D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Referred from General Laws
- **2022-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-04** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-07** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-14** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-23** Rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Passed by temporarily
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-03-02** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-02** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2022-03-02** Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Senate amendment agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 683 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1c8ecaf-14a3-4402-915e-1d27ae5e5f82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).