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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sale of caskets; preneed arrangements for funeral services."
+description: "Prohibits any person except a licensed funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee from offering for sale or selling a casket when preneed arrangements for funeral services are being made, including preneed funeral contracts and preneed funeral planning. The bill provides that the requirement that a funeral service licensee accept a casket provided by a third party applies only in cases in which funeral arrangements are made at-need. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1828"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1828 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-02"
+last_action: "2019-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2a85264-f0ce-4590-bfac-a4d124464b4a"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1828"
+source_hash: "c5909fa41ae3920c028589e9340dcc8bdf24947eff0d232ecd8aec229f16375f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1828 (2019) — Sale of caskets; preneed arrangements for funeral services.
+
+Prohibits any person except a licensed funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee from offering for sale or selling a casket when preneed arrangements for funeral services are being made, including preneed funeral contracts and preneed funeral planning. The bill provides that the requirement that a funeral service licensee accept a casket provided by a third party applies only in cases in which funeral arrangements are made at-need. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0603)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0603)
+2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1828)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1828ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1828ER)
+4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105047D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1828H1)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101662D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1828)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101662D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 19105047D-H1
+- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1828H1
+- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 603 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2a85264-f0ce-4590-bfac-a4d124464b4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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