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Bill Businesses; central filing of assumed or fictitious name, etc. Postpones, from May 1, 2019, to January 1, 2020, the effective date of the measure enacted in 2017 that requires a person conducting or transacting business under an assumed or fictitious name to file a certificate of assumed or fictitious name in the office of the clerk of the State Corporation Commission. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2018 HB 170 Virginia HB 170 (2018)
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Virginia HB 170 (2018) — Businesses; central filing of assumed or fictitious name, etc.

Postpones, from May 1, 2019, to January 1, 2020, the effective date of the measure enacted in 2017 that requires a person conducting or transacting business under an assumed or fictitious name to file a certificate of assumed or fictitious name in the office of the clerk of the State Corporation Commission.

Version chain

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

  1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB170ER) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101901D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Commerce and Labor — 130 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Commerce and Labor — 220 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 990 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Gregory D. Habeeb — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101901D introduction
  • 2017-12-22 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
  • 2018-01-18 Read first time reading-1
  • 2018-01-19 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2018-01-22 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2018-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2018-01-23 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
  • 2018-02-22 Read third time reading-3
  • 2018-02-26 Enrolled
  • 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
  • 2018-02-28 Signed by President
  • 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
  • 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
  • 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 251 (effective 1/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/629328b5-7829-49df-97aa-44b1d7daa03e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).