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type: "Bill"
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title: "Insurance agents; licensing and registration renewal."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 233"
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citation: "Virginia SB 233 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["A. Benton \"Ben\" Chafin"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2020-01-02"
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last_action: "2020-03-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cd21391-9d91-454e-b8aa-2b356768297b"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB233"
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source_hash: "a25a13df3a2ea45a940f109bf6014558dc2f9d4c80e1002eae04f472722f8c80"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 233 (2020) — Insurance agents; licensing and registration renewal.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0225)
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2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB233ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB233ER)
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3. **Impact statement from SCC (SB233)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB233)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101598D `introduction`
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- **2020-01-02** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-08** Impact statement from SCC (SB233)
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- **2020-01-13** Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-01-15** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-01-16** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-17** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
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- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-18** Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2020-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2020-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
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- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from SCC (SB233ER)
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- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
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- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
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- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 3, 2020
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- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
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- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 225 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cd21391-9d91-454e-b8aa-2b356768297b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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