Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2719.md

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health insurance; small employers."
+description: "Revises the definition of \"small employer\" for purposes of group health insurance policies to provide that an individual who performs any service for remuneration under a contract of hire for (i) a corporation in which he is a shareholder or an immediate family member of a shareholder or (ii) a limited liability company in which he is a member, regardless of the number of members of the limited liability company, shall be deemed to be an employee of the corporation or the limited liability company. The measure provides that a health insurance issuer shall not be required to issue more than one group health plan for each employer identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service for a business entity, without regard to the number of shareholders or members of such business entity. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2719"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2719 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-15"
+last_action: "2019-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e34a3436-9f64-43d0-8d50-d5037c5af5b5"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2719"
+source_hash: "3d67ec5fc91f3303edde10ab9d7d40c96666c4515c35c0af1c0bbe3987a0e28a"
+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 2719 (2019) — Health insurance; small employers.
+
+Revises the definition of "small employer" for purposes of group health insurance policies to provide that an individual who performs any service for remuneration under a contract of hire for (i) a corporation in which he is a shareholder or an immediate family member of a shareholder or (ii) a limited liability company in which he is a member, regardless of the number of members of the limited liability company, shall be deemed to be an employee of the corporation or the limited liability company. The measure provides that a health insurance issuer shall not be required to issue more than one group health plan for each employer identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service for a business entity, without regard to the number of shareholders or members of such business entity. 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 (CHAP0383)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0383)
+2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2719AH)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2719ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2719ER)
+4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104317D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2719)
+5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19104317D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2719E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
+- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
+- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 19104317D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-15** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-04** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House as amended HB2719E
+- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19104317D-E
+- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `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
+- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 383 (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/e34a3436-9f64-43d0-8d50-d5037c5af5b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+