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Streaming advertisement volume control; civil penalty. Requires a video streaming service, social media video service, or third-party advertising manager, as defined in the bill, that serves consumers residing in the Commonwealth to exercise reasonable care to normalize the audio of short-form content, as defined in the bill, so that such audio is not transmitted at a louder volume than the long-form content, also defined in the bill, it accompanies, consistent with the regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to the federal Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act for television broadcast stations, cable operators, and other multichannel video programming distributors. The bill provides that the Office of the Attorney General shall enforce the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Mar 14, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Signed by Speaker
Enrolled
Signed by President
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB518)
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB518ER)
Senate substitute agreed to by House (85-Y 11-N 0-A)
Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote)
Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Read third time
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Rules suspended
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB518)
Committee substitute printed 26108571D-S1
Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Senate committee offered
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)
Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
Read second time
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
committee substitute agreed to
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 26105873D-H1
Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
House subcommittee offered
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB518)
Assigned HGL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101108D
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Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Adele Y. McClure