---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance holding companies; supervision of internationally active insurance groups."
description: "Insurance holding companies; supervision of internationally active insurance groups."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1759"
citation: "Virginia HB 1759 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-12-21"
last_action: "2019-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11a15558-a3fb-43cc-b691-ebdbc87cee3a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1759"
source_hash: "89571fd7688e052c14647128787c697f5a132096373fb8eccd62334208e12f5a"
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 1759 (2019) — Insurance holding companies; supervision of internationally active insurance groups.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0692)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1759ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1759ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102997D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1759)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102997D `introduction`
- **2018-12-21** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-15** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-16** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-17** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 692 (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/11a15558-a3fb-43cc-b691-ebdbc87cee3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).