republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-309.md

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Bill	Limited liability companies; prepayment of annual registration fees.	Limited liability companies; prepayment of annual registration fees. Permits domestic and foreign limited liabilitycompanies to prepay annual registration fees for two or three years.Under the bill, a domestic or foreign limited liability company mustmake the election to prepay its annual registration fees before itsannual registration fee would otherwise be due and seek approvalfrom the State Corporation Commission to engage in prepayment fortwo or three years. The bill provides that such optional prepaymentdoes not apply to the initial annual registration fees assessed againsta limited liability company that is newly formed or recently convertedfrom another entity. The bill requires that, if applicable, the Commissionprovide notice of this prepayment option to a foreign or domesticlimited liability company that has failed to pay its annual registrationfee as a method of avoiding future delinquencies.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 309	Virginia HB 309 (2022)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	4	34	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ca3209b1-fd70-4645-b665-0693c5f71d3e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB309	96bf6fb110da8e0afa000c4651d15c0524271406f1769e2527f6f34fcce6fcfc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 309 (2022) — Limited liability companies; prepayment of annual registration fees.

Limited liability companies; prepayment of annual registration fees. Permits domestic and foreign limited liabilitycompanies to prepay annual registration fees for two or three years.Under the bill, a domestic or foreign limited liability company mustmake the election to prepay its annual registration fees before itsannual registration fee would otherwise be due and seek approvalfrom the State Corporation Commission to engage in prepayment fortwo or three years. The bill provides that such optional prepaymentdoes not apply to the initial annual registration fees assessed againsta limited liability company that is newly formed or recently convertedfrom another entity. The bill requires that, if applicable, the Commissionprovide notice of this prepayment option to a foreign or domesticlimited liability company that has failed to pay its annual registrationfee as a method of avoiding future delinquencies.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0290 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22104790D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB309ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100704D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100704D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy referral-committee
• 2022-01-18 Assigned sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-20 Impact statement from SCC (HB309)
• 2022-01-25 Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-25 Committee substitute printed 22104790D-H1 substitution
• 2022-01-27 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-01-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-01-28 Committee substitute agreed to 22104790D-H1
• 2022-01-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB309H1
• 2022-01-31 Impact statement from SCC (HB309H1)
• 2022-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-31 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-01 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2022-02-28 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-28 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-03 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-03 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-03-03 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-03-03 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2022-03-03 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-07 Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from SCC (HB309ER)
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 290 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca3209b1-fd70-4645-b665-0693c5f71d3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).