---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations; annual reports."
description: "Eliminates the requirement that a corporation authorized to issue one or more classes of shares list the number of shares of each class on its corporate annual report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 387"
citation: "Virginia SB 387 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Benton \"Ben\" Chafin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecce93f6-9380-4388-9f20-d21fe4df6c8e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB387"
source_hash: "f802813b06a95913def538355fd782463e1409c3aa5fb34fcab728d8bb9f7a3e"
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 387 (2018) — Corporations; annual reports.

Eliminates the requirement that a corporation authorized to issue one or more classes of shares list the number of shares of each class on its corporate annual report.

## Version chain

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

1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB387ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB387ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101897D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB387)

## Votes

- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101897D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 132 (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/ecce93f6-9380-4388-9f20-d21fe4df6c8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).