Virginia · 2025 Regular Session

SB754 Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, etc., reproductive or sexual health information.

Direction

Abortion otherAI label

Expands abortion access model confidence 90%

Adds reproductive or sexual health information (explicitly including termination of a pregnancy, abortifacients, and related data) to the list of consumer data that suppliers are prohibited from obtaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating without consent under the Consumer Protection Act, so it

83. Obtaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating any personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without the consent of the consumer.

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Law

Stage: Law · step 6 of 6

Last action: 2025-03-24: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591)
Filed: 2024-12-05
Sponsor: Barbara Favola D

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Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds a new prohibited practice to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act barring suppliers from obtaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without consumer consent. It also adds an extensive definition of that term that explicitly encompasses abortion-related information (termination of pregnancy, abortifacients, related services, and derivative data). These changes create new consumer protections and legal restrictions on the non-consensual sharing of abortion-related data, expanding legal access to abortion by bol

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Hearings and calendar

2025-01-15 00:00 · Hearing · Senate General Laws and Technology Hearing Senate Room B, Room 306, General Assembly Building
2025-01-21 09:00 · Hearing · Senate Finance and Appropriations Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
2025-02-06 00:00 · Hearing · House General Laws - Housing/Consumer Protection Committee Hearing House Committee Room B - 205
2025-02-11 00:00 · Hearing · House General Laws Committee Hearing House Committee Room B - 205

Votes

Date	Chamber	Motion	Yea-Nay
2025-01-15	S	Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)	9-6	Passed
2025-01-21	S	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)	10-5	Passed
2025-01-22	S	Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)	40-0	Passed
2025-01-24	S	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 17-N)	21-17	Passed
2025-02-06	H	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)	6-2	Passed
2025-02-11	H	Reported from General Laws (12-Y 7-N)	12-7	Passed
2025-02-14	H	Passed House (52-Y 43-N)	52-43	Passed

Text versions

Introduced 2024-12-05
Enrolled 2025-02-18
Chaptered 2025-03-24

History (29 actions)

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-24		Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591)
2025-03-24		Approved by Governor-Chapter 591 (Effective 07/01/25)
2025-03-03		Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
2025-03-03	S	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
2025-02-20	S	Signed by President
2025-02-18	H	Signed by Speaker
2025-02-18	S	Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB754)
2025-02-18	S	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB754ER)
2025-02-18	S	Enrolled
2025-02-14	H	Passed House (52-Y 43-N)
2025-02-14	H	Read third time
2025-02-13	H	Read second time
2025-02-11	H	Reported from General Laws (12-Y 7-N)
2025-02-06	H	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
2025-02-05	H	Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
2025-02-05	H	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2025-02-05	H	Read first time
2025-02-05	H	Placed on Calendar
2025-01-24	S	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 17-N)
2025-01-23	S	Engrossed by Senate
2025-01-23	S	Read second time
2025-01-22	S	Passed by for the day
2025-01-22	S	Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
2025-01-22	S	Rules suspended
2025-01-21	S	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
2025-01-15	S	Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
2025-01-14	S	Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB754)
2024-12-05	S	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2024-12-05	S	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100828D