republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/sb-246.md

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Bill	Insurance agents; licensing requirements.	Removes prospectively the exemption from examination requirements for individuals who have been awarded the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and Chartered Life Underwriter designations. Insurance agent licenses that were granted to individuals who qualified for the designation exemptions will remain valid unless and until their licenses are otherwise terminated. The measure also (i) requires licensed resident public adjuster entities to meet the same bonding requirements as resident public adjusters, nonresident public adjusters, and nonresident public adjuster entities and (ii) adds manager, member, or partner to those individuals or entities that may be considered a designated licensed producer for an agency.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	SB 246	Virginia SB 246 (2018)	bill	Insurance	enacted	Rosalyn R. Dance	2	15	5	2018-01-05	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/92b89a84-1974-404f-81ba-a571417a631a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB246	b0355bd12dd6333472498719739ca4ae8314e7d97486767a626a40cb4f8056ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 246 (2018) — Insurance agents; licensing requirements.

Removes prospectively the exemption from examination requirements for individuals who have been awarded the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and Chartered Life Underwriter designations. Insurance agent licenses that were granted to individuals who qualified for the designation exemptions will remain valid unless and until their licenses are otherwise terminated. The measure also (i) requires licensed resident public adjuster entities to meet the same bonding requirements as resident public adjusters, nonresident public adjusters, and nonresident public adjuster entities and (ii) adds manager, member, or partner to those individuals or entities that may be considered a designated licensed producer for an agency.

Version chain

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

1. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB246ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101279D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 36–1 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Rosalyn R. Dance — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101279D introduction
• 2018-01-05 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-31 Placed on Calendar
• 2018-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-01-31 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-20 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2018-02-22 Enrolled
• 2018-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-23 Signed by President
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
• 2018-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92b89a84-1974-404f-81ba-a571417a631a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).