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type: "Bill"
title: "Life and annuities agents; report on licensure exam passage rate."
description: "Life and annuities agents; report on examinationpassage rate. Eliminates the requirement that the State CorporationCommission provide an annual report to the General Assembly on the licensure exam passage rate of candidates for licensure as a lifeand annuities agent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 165"
citation: "Virginia SB 165 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-12-19"
last_action: "2020-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f10e247-4ce8-45c4-8dff-114c33fff91b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB165"
source_hash: "3e42a3077d4ac238ba98d6d87cc53b89d02f543807faa0799b79fa77a31f408c"
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 SB 165 (2020) — Life and annuities agents; report on licensure exam passage rate.
Life and annuities agents; report on examinationpassage rate. Eliminates the requirement that the State CorporationCommission provide an annual report to the General Assembly on the licensure exam passage rate of candidates for licensure as a lifeand annuities agent.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0223)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB165ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB165ER)
3. **Impact statement from SCC (SB165)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB165)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101602D `introduction`
- **2019-12-19** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Impact statement from SCC (SB165)
- **2020-01-20** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from SCC (SB165ER)
- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 3, 2020
- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 223 (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/9f10e247-4ce8-45c4-8dff-114c33fff91b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).