republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1925.md

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Bill	Assumed/fictitious name certificate; conforms 1/1/2020 as date where certificates are to be filed.	Conforms January 1, 2020, as the date when certificates of assumed or fictitious name are to be filed centrally with the clerk of the State Corporation Commission rather than with the clerk of court. A provision of existing law provides that central filing of such certificates is scheduled to commence May 1, 2019. Changing that date from May 1, 2019, to January 1, 2020, will conform the commencement of central filing to the date set by legislation enacted in the 2018 Session of the General Assembly. The measure has an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1925	Virginia HB 1925 (2019)	bill	Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Emergency Legislation State Corporation Commission Trade and Commerce	enacted	Mark L. Keam	3	15	5	2019-01-04	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/6f0a875c-f781-401a-9f91-09e921f0c444	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1925	aeab773f99c0158eccd50862f278d183fcb6a0bfc1feb85fbebbba08ac1c8983	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1925 (2019) — Assumed/fictitious name certificate; conforms 1/1/2020 as date where certificates are to be filed.

Conforms January 1, 2020, as the date when certificates of assumed or fictitious name are to be filed centrally with the clerk of the State Corporation Commission rather than with the clerk of court. A provision of existing law provides that central filing of such certificates is scheduled to commence May 1, 2019. Changing that date from May 1, 2019, to January 1, 2020, will conform the commencement of central filing to the date set by legislation enacted in the 2018 Session of the General Assembly. The measure has 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 (CHAP0464) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1925ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101897D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark L. Keam — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101897D introduction
• 2019-01-04 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-15 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2019-01-16 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-17 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-17 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2019-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2019-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Enrolled
• 2019-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-20 Signed by President
• 2019-02-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
• 2019-02-27 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 464 (effective 3/18/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f0a875c-f781-401a-9f91-09e921f0c444. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).