---
type: "Bill"
title: "Forgery; venue for prosecution."
description: "Provides that, in addition to the current forgery venue provisions, forgery may be prosecuted in any county or city where an issuer, acquirer, or account holder sustained a financial loss as a result of the offense. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1751"
citation: "Virginia HB 1751 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James A. \"Jay\" Leftwich"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-12-21"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07794124-7c06-41af-8ff5-c1cb24c1d321"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1751"
source_hash: "6725c52dc04dc939f0ecea5c7f14ca97db53af14f3925b00c1f5367f4f682313"
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 1751 (2019) — Forgery; venue for prosecution.

Provides that, in addition to the current forgery venue provisions, forgery may be prosecuted in any county or city where an issuer, acquirer, or account holder sustained a financial loss as a result of the offense. 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 (CHAP0046)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0046)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1751AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1751)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1751ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1751ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101000D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1751)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19101000D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1751E)
7. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1751ASE)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101000D `introduction`
- **2018-12-21** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB1751E
- **2019-01-24** Printed as engrossed 19101000D-E
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-04** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-06** Passed by for the day
- **2019-02-07** Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled
- **2019-02-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-11** Signed by President
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
- **2019-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 46 (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/07794124-7c06-41af-8ff5-c1cb24c1d321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).