---
type: "Bill"
title: "DPOR; unlicensed practice, cease and desist notices."
description: "Permits the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, or his designee, to issue a notice to any person unlawfully engaging in unlicensed practice of an occupation to cease and desist such activity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2327"
citation: "Virginia HB 2327 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph P. McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e05f674-0dc2-4bad-8142-877e5669f896"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2327"
source_hash: "cd8e3e7259fbbe139751016a7609d82ad607c7e3dc4299c0ffe31bb379c43e11"
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 2327 (2019) — DPOR; unlicensed practice, cease and desist notices.

Permits the Director of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, or his designee, to issue a notice to any person unlawfully engaging in unlicensed practice of an occupation to cease and desist such activity.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0481)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0481)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2327ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2327ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101680D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2327)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2327ASE)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph P. McNamara — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101680D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Reading of amendments waived
- **2019-02-14** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 481 (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/3e05f674-0dc2-4bad-8142-877e5669f896`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).