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type: "Bill"
title: "Accountants, public; issuance, renewal, and reinstatement of licenses."
description: "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. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 428"
citation: "Virginia SB 428 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/464eaa02-af65-444e-9150-00c3d91866f3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB428"
source_hash: "4f183a5892a4038a247d4c9491069f352692faf9eb28e34652f7e3b281073e42"
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 SB 428 (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. This bill is identical to
## 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 (SB428ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB428ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18104727D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB428)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- George L. Barker — 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 18104727D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on General Laws `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 82 (effective 3/2/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/464eaa02-af65-444e-9150-00c3d91866f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).