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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Insurance agents; licensing requirements."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "SB 246"
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citation: "Virginia SB 246 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Insurance"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Rosalyn R. Dance"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2018-01-05"
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last_action: "2018-03-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92b89a84-1974-404f-81ba-a571417a631a"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB246"
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source_hash: "b0355bd12dd6333472498719739ca4ae8314e7d97486767a626a40cb4f8056ee"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 246 (2018) — Insurance agents; licensing requirements.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB246ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB246ER)
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2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101279D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB246)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **36–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Rosalyn R. Dance — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101279D `introduction`
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- **2018-01-05** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2018-01-31** Placed on Calendar
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- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
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- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
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- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
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- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 131 (effective - see bill) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92b89a84-1974-404f-81ba-a571417a631a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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