---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonstock corporations; members' meetings."
description: "Nonstock corporations; members' meetings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1205"
citation: "Virginia HB 1205 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benjamin L. Cline"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf7987fd-efb0-4dba-b8a9-fa32494e59f0"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1205"
source_hash: "776bdf9e2a8b4ccff0ac0a2a7c328b2a8d5da0f068f61f28ebfe7df03b161a26"
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 1205 (2018) — Nonstock corporations; members' meetings.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1205ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1205ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102870D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1205)

## Votes

- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **11–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Benjamin L. Cline — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102870D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-30** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 265 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf7987fd-efb0-4dba-b8a9-fa32494e59f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).