---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fire insurance; appraisers and umpires, citizenship requirements."
description: "Fire insurance; appraisers and umpires; citizenship requirements. Removes a requirement that appraisers and umpireswho make appraisals for loss or damage to property under the provisionsof a fire insurance policy are citizens and residents of the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 606"
citation: "Virginia HB 606 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey M. Bourne"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16434ef5-151f-4b2b-b7e9-865c14ac48b9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB606"
source_hash: "f4203b47eee5b416848833f1a6f2b9848cedea79b156447bedac35536009cf9c"
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 606 (2022) — Fire insurance; appraisers and umpires, citizenship requirements.

Fire insurance; appraisers and umpires; citizenship requirements. Removes a requirement that appraisers and umpireswho make appraisals for loss or damage to property under the provisionsof a fire insurance policy are citizens and residents of the Commonwealth.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0666** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0666)
2. **HB606ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB606ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101308D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB606)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) — **36–3** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 1-N) — **13–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey M. Bourne — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101308D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from SCC (HB606)
- **2022-01-25** Reported from Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-01** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from SCC (HB606ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 666 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16434ef5-151f-4b2b-b7e9-865c14ac48b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).