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type: "Bill"
title: "Business licenses; acceptable identification."
description: "Business licenses; acceptable identification. Provides that for any application for a business license issued by a locality under its business, professional, and occupational license taxing authority, the locality shall not require an applicant to provide a social security number if the applicant provides his federal employer identification number instead. Further, if a valid federal employer identification number is provided, the locality shall not be required to determine the residency status of the applicant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1679"
citation: "Virginia HB 1679 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glenn R. Davis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78a30049-9fb8-4a20-8962-521785d4d705"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1679"
source_hash: "36fe1c4c8a5fb74d05eff65d44fd69d54c382c79966cd0a02f4144dfb59db42c"
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 1679 (2020) — Business licenses; acceptable identification.
Business licenses; acceptable identification. Provides that for any application for a business license issued by a locality under its business, professional, and occupational license taxing authority, the locality shall not require an applicant to provide a social security number if the applicant provides his federal employer identification number instead. Further, if a valid federal employer identification number is provided, the locality shall not be required to determine the residency status of the applicant.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0258)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1679ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1679ER)
3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB1679E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1679E)
4. **Impact statement from TAX (HB1679)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1679)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance with amendment (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Glenn R. Davis — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20104385D `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-26** Impact statement from TAX (HB1679)
- **2020-01-27** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-01-29** Reported from Finance with amendment (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended HB1679E
- **2020-02-03** Printed as engrossed 20104385D-E
- **2020-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Impact statement from TAX (HB1679E)
- **2020-02-18** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (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** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from TAX (HB1679ER)
- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78a30049-9fb8-4a20-8962-521785d4d705`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).