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VAHB707PassConsumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Prohibits, subject to a parental consent requirement, a data controller from processing personal data of a known child (i) for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of such personal dat...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0840)
VASB361PassConsumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Prohibits, subject to a parental consent requirement, a data controller from processing personal data of a known child (i) for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of such personal dat...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0844)
VASB480PassPublic utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; report; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting servi...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790)
VAHB906PassPublic utilities; municipal utilities; disconnection of service; limitations; consumer protections. Suspends electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities subject to the regulation of the State Corporation Commission from disconnecting service to a ...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0824)
VAHB1519PassFees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides that charging any transaction or processing fee or similar surcharge for the purchase of a good or service through the use of an electronic fund transfer is a prohibited practice under the Virg...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0838)
VAHB1539VetoAbortion or other reproductive health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; prohibited practices under Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Provides that no demand for extradition of a person charged with a criminal violation of...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1351PassVirginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; ignition interlock system. Provides that advertising for any ignition interlock system by a vendor not approved by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program to operate in Virg...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0747)
VAHB744PassConsumer protection; automatic renewal or continuous service offers. Requires a supplier making automatic renewal or continuous service offers that automatically renew after more than 30 days and extend the automatic renewal or continuous service off...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452)
VAHB1270PassVirginia Consumer Protection Act; mold remediation. Makes it a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to sell or offer for sale services as a professional mold remediator to be performed upon any residential dwelling without holding a mold...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476)
VAHB1243PassConsumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Common...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328)
VASB576PassConsumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Common...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362)
VAHB277FailConsumer protection; transparency in ticket fees; civil penalties. Requires any person selling or reselling a ticket to an event to clearly and conspicuously display the total cost of the ticket from the first time a price is displayed and any time t...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate
VASB388FailVirginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-03-09
Failed to pass in House
VASB359Engross

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de...
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2024-02-19
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee
VASB359Engross

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Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de...
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2024-02-19
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee
VAHB821Intro

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
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2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1161Intro

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media; parental consent. Requires social media platforms, defined in the bill, that are subject to the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to obtain verifiable parental consent prior to perm...
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2024-02-13
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee
VAHB1115Intro

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from implementing certain practices, designs, an...
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2024-02-13
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee
VAHB1468Intro

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; enforcement by the Attorney General; civil penalty. Permits the Attorney General to prohibit TikTok from being available to known minors in the Commonwealth. The bill provides that a civil penalty of $7,500 may be assess...
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2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VAHB1320Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1280Intro

Sine Die
Consumer protection; failure to honor service warranty. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from failing to honor a service warranty of another supplier after acquiring the business of such other supplier. A violation of th...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1280Intro

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Consumer protection; failure to honor service warranty. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from failing to honor a service warranty of another supplier after acquiring the business of such other supplier. A violation of th...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB1320Intro

Prefile
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; mandatory fees disclosure. Prohibits a supplier in connection with a consumer transaction from advertising, displaying, or offering any pricing information for goods or services without prominen...
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2024-02-08
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VASB164Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; artificial intelligence disclosure. Prohibits the dissemination or sale of an item created with artificial intelligence technology that contains a videographic or still image intending to depict...
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2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VASB164Intro

Prefile
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices; artificial intelligence disclosure. Prohibits the dissemination or sale of an item created with artificial intelligence technology that contains a videographic or still image intending to depict...
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2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VASB252Intro

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,...
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2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VASB432Intro

Sine Die
Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
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2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VASB432Intro

Prefile
Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children. Requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, ...
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2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VASB252Intro

Prefile
Consumer Data Protection Act; controller privacy notice; cookies; consumer consent. Requires the privacy notice that a controller must provide to consumers to include a method by which a consumer may opt out of the automatic placement of a data file,...
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2024-01-31
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VAHB228Intro

Sine Die
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; recycling information on products. Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of any product that indicates on the product's container or packaging that such container or packaging is recyclable unless such container or...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VAHB228Intro

Prefile
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; recycling information on products. Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of any product that indicates on the product's container or packaging that such container or packaging is recyclable unless such container or...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
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