---
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).