VA SB157 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 2 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 2 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement instead may be published in an online-only news publication subject to certain requirements specified in the bill. The bill sets out a process by which an online-only news publication shall petition the circuit court of the appropriate jurisdiction to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements and authorizes the court to grant such online-only news publication the authority to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements for a period of one year. The bill also describes the process by which an online-only news publication may continue renewing such authority to publish in each successive year.
Title
Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications, requirements.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-21 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-16 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) (Y: 36 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-01-19 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-16 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) (Y: 36 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-01-19 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-02 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) | |
| 2024-04-02 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 341 (effective 7/1/24) | |
| 2024-03-11 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 | |
| 2024-03-11 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 |
| 2024-02-28 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2024-02-26 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB157ER) |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2024-02-21 | House | VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-21 | House | Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-21 | House | Read third time |
| 2024-02-20 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-02-16 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2024-01-23 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) |
| 2024-01-22 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2024-01-19 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-17 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-10 | Senate | Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name |
| 2024-01-05 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2024-01-05 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104298D |
Same As/Similar To
HB264 (Similar To) 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277)
