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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real Estate Board; transfer of license, fee."
+description: "Real Estate Board; transfer of license; fee. Prohibits the Real Estate Board from charging a fee to a real estate licensee for the transfer of such licensee between offices within a licensed real estate firm, including from such firm's primary place of business to one of its branch offices or from a branch office to another branch office under the same primary place of business. This bill is identical to HB 1653."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 785"
+citation: "Virginia SB 785 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-12-27"
+last_action: "2025-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/737562ac-86a3-438f-a2fc-d6677a565924"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB785"
+source_hash: "299e987fb8e42195f303d4726f3266e8e74033abe2fb6d7095fd67560408d4c7"
+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 SB 785 (2025) — Real Estate Board; transfer of license, fee.
+
+Real Estate Board; transfer of license; fee. Prohibits the Real Estate Board from charging a fee to a real estate licensee for the transfer of such licensee between offices within a licensed real estate firm, including from such firm's primary place of business to one of its branch offices or from a branch office to another branch office under the same primary place of business. This bill is identical to HB 1653.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1011953.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071382.PDF)
+3. **General Laws and Technology Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1021540.PDF)
+4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1044240.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House (94-Y 0-N) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103601D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-12-27** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-15** Committee substitute printed 25104967D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2025-01-22** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-23** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB785)
+- **2025-01-23** Rules suspended
+- **2025-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-23** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-24** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2025-01-24** General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-01-24** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Placed on Calendar
+- **2025-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-07** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-07** Passed House (94-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-10** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-10** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB785ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB785)
+- **2025-02-10** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 129 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/737562ac-86a3-438f-a2fc-d6677a565924`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+