republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-752.md

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Bill	Accountants, public; issuance, renewal, and reinstatement of licenses.	Changes from every 12 months to a time period set by the Board of Accountancy the renewal requirement for licenses granted to provide the license holder the privilege of using the CPA title. The bill provides that any such license issued between the effective date of the bill and June 30, 2018, shall expire on June 30, 2019. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 752	Virginia HB 752 (2018)	bill	Emergency Legislation Professions and Occupations	enacted	James A. "Jay" Leftwich	3	15	6	2018-01-09	2018-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/82194390-e37e-4f2b-90d2-851bd6f98ff3	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB752	314b3f33cbe536df8405d23d36c38b88de63db005b5a9e0d50e5ae015b8d3644	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 752 (2018) — Accountants, public; issuance, renewal, and reinstatement of licenses.

Changes from every 12 months to a time period set by the Board of Accountancy the renewal requirement for licenses granted to provide the license holder the privilege of using the CPA title. The bill provides that any such license issued between the effective date of the bill and June 30, 2018, shall expire on June 30, 2019. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB752ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18104451D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws — 22–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18104451D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2018-01-19 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2018-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2018-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-19 Enrolled
• 2018-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-21 Signed by President
• 2018-02-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
• 2018-02-22 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
• 2018-02-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 45 (effective 2/26/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82194390-e37e-4f2b-90d2-851bd6f98ff3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).