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+type: "Bill"
+title: "DPOR; unlicensed practice, cease and desist notices."
+description: "Permits the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, or his designee, to issue a notice to any person unlawfully engaging in unlicensed practice of an occupation to cease and desist such activity."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2327"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2327 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joseph P. McNamara"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e05f674-0dc2-4bad-8142-877e5669f896"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2327"
+source_hash: "cd8e3e7259fbbe139751016a7609d82ad607c7e3dc4299c0ffe31bb379c43e11"
+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 2327 (2019) — DPOR; unlicensed practice, cease and desist notices.
+
+Permits the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, or his designee, to issue a notice to any person unlawfully engaging in unlicensed practice of an occupation to cease and desist such activity.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0481)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2327ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2327ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101680D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2327)
+4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2327ASE)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joseph P. McNamara — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101680D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **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`
+- **2019-02-14** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2019-02-14** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2019-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-02-18** Senate amendments 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
+- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 481 (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/3e05f674-0dc2-4bad-8142-877e5669f896`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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