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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Fire insurance policies; change in amount of coverage."
+description: "Prohibits an insurer from increasing or decreasing the amount of fire insurance coverage, including fire insurance in combination with other coverage, on commercial property under a policy that has been in effect for at least 60 days unless the first named insured has consented in writing to such a change."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1836"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1836 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Daniel W. Marshall, III"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-02"
+last_action: "2019-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a96794f-92a3-4957-b498-b2685c4c2d71"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1836"
+source_hash: "21323a95be5ea1e9c06c5e1b28dc6be95b0a88d02d046088cef1b4cd733a3927"
+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 1836 (2019) — Fire insurance policies; change in amount of coverage.
+
+Prohibits an insurer from increasing or decreasing the amount of fire insurance coverage, including fire insurance in combination with other coverage, on commercial property under a policy that has been in effect for at least 60 days unless the first named insured has consented in writing to such a change.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0693)
+2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1836AH)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1836ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1836ER)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101169D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1836)
+5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19101169D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1836E)
+6. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1836ASE)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Daniel W. Marshall, III — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101169D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-15** Passed by for the day
+- **2019-01-16** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-16** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2019-01-16** Engrossed by House as amended HB1836E
+- **2019-01-16** Printed as engrossed 19101169D-E
+- **2019-01-17** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-18** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-18** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2019-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2019-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-02-18** Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
+- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (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/1a96794f-92a3-4957-b498-b2685c4c2d71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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