§ 8.01-465.31.(Effective July 1, 2027) Relation to other law.

A new consumer-protection chapter could be read to crowd out older protections if it said nothing about how it fits with the rest of Virginia law. This section heads that reading off directly: the provisions of this chapter “supplement all rights and remedies available to a consumer under any other law of the Commonwealth.”

That framing makes the chapter a floor, not a ceiling. A consumer defending a debt-collection case can rely on this chapter's complaint and notice requirements while still invoking whatever other statutory or common-law protections Virginia law already provides — nothing here narrows those existing avenues.

The section functions as a rule of construction rather than a source of new rights on its own. It does not create, for example, a general right to reopen a default judgment — that kind of relief comes from other law, such as § 8.01-428 — but it makes clear this chapter does not cut off access to that other law.