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| Bill | Sale of caskets; preneed arrangements for funeral services. | Prohibits any person except a licensed funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee from offering for sale or selling a casket when preneed arrangements for funeral services are being made, including preneed funeral contracts and preneed funeral planning. The bill provides that the requirement that a funeral service licensee accept a casket provided by a third party applies only in cases in which funeral arrangements are made at-need. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | SB 1247 | Virginia SB 1247 (2019) |
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Virginia SB 1247 (2019) — Sale of caskets; preneed arrangements for funeral services.
Prohibits any person except a licensed funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee from offering for sale or selling a casket when preneed arrangements for funeral services are being made, including preneed funeral contracts and preneed funeral planning. The bill provides that the requirement that a funeral service licensee accept a casket provided by a third party applies only in cases in which funeral arrangements are made at-need. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1247ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105336D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101786D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–1 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 22–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101786D
introduction - 2019-01-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2019-01-14 Rereferred to Education and Health
referral-committee - 2019-01-21 Assigned Education sub: Health
referral-committee - 2019-01-28 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-01-28 Reading of substitute waived
- 2019-01-28 Committee substitute agreed to 19105336D-S1
- 2019-01-28 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1247S1
- 2019-02-04 Placed on Calendar
- 2019-02-04 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-02-04 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2019-02-08 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-02-11 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-11 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2019-02-12 Enrolled
- 2019-02-12 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-13 Signed by President
- 2019-02-14 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
- 2019-02-14 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
- 2019-02-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 93 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f37188da-7e80-484b-afb2-b36e3c29752b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).