---
type: "Bill"
title: "Credit cards; offenses, venue."
description: "Credit cards; offenses, venue."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2484"
citation: "Virginia HB 2484 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Crimes and Offenses Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b663f3d7-870f-4acb-a18c-9d0c59969e88"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2484"
source_hash: "5aae063373bfc9d8740ebc8aed6499307cf8fccdeab7ce79d12dc1bcf2e437e7"
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 2484 (2019) — Credit cards; offenses, venue.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0177)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2484)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2484ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2484ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105075D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2484H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102072D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2484)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102072D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** 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 substitute agreed to 19105075D-H1
- **2019-01-24** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2484H1
- **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`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 177 (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/b663f3d7-870f-4acb-a18c-9d0c59969e88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).