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| Bill | Legal services plans; registration information or fees. | Legal services plans. Authorizes legal services organizations to provide to the Virginia Department of Agricultureand Consumer Services any registration information or fees on behalfof their legal services plan sellers. Currently, sellers are requiredto register with the Department individually. The measure also (i)authorizes a foreign insurer issuing legal services plans to filefinancial statements with the State Corporation Commission in theform used in its state of domicile; (ii) allows legal services plansto be written in Virginia by a foreign insurer that is authorizedto write legal services plans in another jurisdiction; (iii) authorizesa legal services organization to request an exemption from the requirementthat the Commission conduct an examination of it every five yearsif the organization provides an audited financial statement; (iv)allows a legal services organization to seek a waiver of the requirementthat it obtain the Commission's prior approval of policy forms and related documents; (v) eliminates the requirement that legal services organizations file actuarial opinions; and (vi) allows legal services organizations to exclude the management discussion and analysis sectionsof their financial statements filed with the Commission. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | HB 1240 | Virginia HB 1240 (2020) |
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Virginia HB 1240 (2020) — Legal services plans; registration information or fees.
Legal services plans. Authorizes legal services organizations to provide to the Virginia Department of Agricultureand Consumer Services any registration information or fees on behalfof their legal services plan sellers. Currently, sellers are requiredto register with the Department individually. The measure also (i)authorizes a foreign insurer issuing legal services plans to filefinancial statements with the State Corporation Commission in theform used in its state of domicile; (ii) allows legal services plansto be written in Virginia by a foreign insurer that is authorizedto write legal services plans in another jurisdiction; (iii) authorizesa legal services organization to request an exemption from the requirementthat the Commission conduct an examination of it every five yearsif the organization provides an audited financial statement; (iv)allows a legal services organization to seek a waiver of the requirementthat it obtain the Commission's prior approval of policy forms and related documents; (v) eliminates the requirement that legal services organizations file actuarial opinions; and (vi) allows legal services organizations to exclude the management discussion and analysis sectionsof their financial statements filed with the Commission.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0408) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1240ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1240H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (HB1240) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (17-Y 0-N) — 17–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 2-N) — 96–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105065D
introduction - 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
referral-committee - 2020-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB1240)
- 2020-01-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-01-28 Committee substitute printed 20106498D-H1
substitution - 2020-01-28 Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (17-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-30 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-01-31 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 20106498D-H1
- 2020-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1240H1
- 2020-02-03 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2020-02-04 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2020-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB1240H1)
- 2020-02-17 Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-20 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-20 Reading of amendment waived
- 2020-02-20 Amendment by Senator Saslaw agreed to
amendment-passage - 2020-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2020-02-20 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-24 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-24 Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 2-N)
- 2020-02-24 VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 2-N)
- 2020-02-28 Enrolled
- 2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB1240ER)
- 2020-02-28 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-02 Signed by President
- 2020-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
- 2020-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 2020-03-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 408 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5f0a3f4-020d-4e4c-816d-8bcdd2cbc15b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).