§ 8.01-465.33.(Effective July 1, 2027) Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Federal law generally lets a state statute modify the default rules of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, but only if the state law says so and respects certain federal limits. This section supplies that statement for Chapter 17.4: this chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.

Two federal protections survive that modification untouched. The chapter does not modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. § 7001(c), the federal provision protecting consumer consent to electronic records. And it does not authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in 15 U.S.C. § 7003(b) — a category of notices federal law treats as too important to deliver electronically without special safeguards, which would include the kind of default-judgment warning § 8.01-465.29 requires.

The result is narrow but important: the chapter's own definitions of “record,” “sign,” and “electronic” in § 8.01-465.26 accommodate electronic documents generally, but this section makes sure that accommodation does not quietly convert the consumer notice this chapter requires into something that can be emailed rather than delivered in a way federal consumer-protection law still requires.