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type: "Bill"
title: "Assumed/fictitious name certificate; conforms 1/1/2020 as date where certificates are to be filed."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1925"
citation: "Virginia HB 1925 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Emergency Legislation", "State Corporation Commission", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-04"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f0a875c-f781-401a-9f91-09e921f0c444"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1925"
source_hash: "aeab773f99c0158eccd50862f278d183fcb6a0bfc1feb85fbebbba08ac1c8983"
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 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](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0464)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1925ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1925ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101897D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1925)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **960** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **210** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f0a875c-f781-401a-9f91-09e921f0c444`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).