republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-233.md

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Bill	Insurance agents; licensing and registration renewal.	Insurance licensing and registration renewal. Makes changes related to renewal of insurance agents' licensure and registration. In 2019, legislation was enacted that becomes effective January 1, 2021, to change the licensing and registration renewal cycles for agents, public adjusters, and others to a new cycle based on both month and year, with biennial renewal. The bill removes references in the current law to biennial renewal, removes a requirement in the law as it will become effective that limited lines agents renew their licenses before May 1, 2021, and adds a requirement in the law as it will become effective that certain settlement agents renew their registrations before May 1, 2021.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 233	Virginia SB 233 (2020)	bill		enacted	A. Benton "Ben" Chafin	3	22	4	2020-01-02	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/9cd21391-9d91-454e-b8aa-2b356768297b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB233	a25a13df3a2ea45a940f109bf6014558dc2f9d4c80e1002eae04f472722f8c80	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 233 (2020) — Insurance agents; licensing and registration renewal.

Insurance licensing and registration renewal. Makes changes related to renewal of insurance agents' licensure and registration. In 2019, legislation was enacted that becomes effective January 1, 2021, to change the licensing and registration renewal cycles for agents, public adjusters, and others to a new cycle based on both month and year, with biennial renewal. The bill removes references in the current law to biennial renewal, removes a requirement in the law as it will become effective that limited lines agents renew their licenses before May 1, 2021, and adds a requirement in the law as it will become effective that certain settlement agents renew their registrations before May 1, 2021.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB233ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from SCC (SB233) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101598D introduction
• 2020-01-02 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Impact statement from SCC (SB233)
• 2020-01-13 Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-16 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-17 Read third time and passed Senate (38-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 (SB233ER)
• 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 225 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cd21391-9d91-454e-b8aa-2b356768297b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).