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Bill Funeral establishments; full time manager requirement, exception, number of calls. Provides that the Board of Funeral Services may grant a hardship waiver from the requirement that each licensed funeral service establishment have a person licensed for the practice of funeral services or a licensed funeral director in charge, full time, allowing for the operation of two establishments by a single full-time funeral service licensee or funeral director if the combined average number of funeral calls at the two establishments over the previous three years is no more than 135 calls per year and the distance between the two establishments is 50 miles or less. Currently, the Board may grant the exception if the combined average number of annual calls at the two establishments is no more than 85 per year. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 SB 1300 Virginia SB 1300 (2019)
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Virginia SB 1300 (2019) — Funeral establishments; full time manager requirement, exception, number of calls.

Provides that the Board of Funeral Services may grant a hardship waiver from the requirement that each licensed funeral service establishment have a person licensed for the practice of funeral services or a licensed funeral director in charge, full time, allowing for the operation of two establishments by a single full-time funeral service licensee or funeral director if the combined average number of funeral calls at the two establishments over the previous three years is no more than 135 calls per year and the distance between the two establishments is 50 miles or less. Currently, the Board may grant the exception if the combined average number of annual calls at the two establishments is no more than 85 per year.

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 (SB1300ER) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102369D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 990 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • John S. Edwards — primary (person)
  • Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102369D introduction
  • 2019-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2019-01-17 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-01-22 Placed on Calendar
  • 2019-01-22 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-22 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
  • 2019-02-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 66 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/990ebdf3-e863-42e4-8693-04f595fd06f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).