republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1237.md

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Bill	Real estate brokers; definitions, prohibits certain locations from being used as places of business.	Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers; places of business. Defines "place of business" for real estate brokers. The bill requires every principal broker to have readily available to the public in his primary place of business the firm license, principal broker license, and the license of every salesperson and broker active with the firm and requires each branch office, defined in the bill, to have readily available to the public the branch office license and a roster of every salesperson or broker assigned to that branch office. Finally, the bill requires any nonresident real estate broker residing in a state that mandates resident real estate brokers of the Commonwealth to maintain a place of business in such mandating state to maintain a place of business in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 437.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1237	Virginia HB 1237 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rodney T. Willett	4	30	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/2ea892c6-744d-45b4-bc46-8c41786d69e1	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1237	648a7cbf62f3ab3e977e0893175a95c50447e603e1662a46466da1001b3685f9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1237 (2024) — Real estate brokers; definitions, prohibits certain locations from being used as places of business.

Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers; places of business. Defines "place of business" for real estate brokers. The bill requires every principal broker to have readily available to the public in his primary place of business the firm license, principal broker license, and the license of every salesperson and broker active with the firm and requires each branch office, defined in the bill, to have readily available to the public the branch office license and a roster of every salesperson or broker assigned to that branch office. Finally, the bill requires any nonresident real estate broker residing in a state that mandates resident real estate brokers of the Commonwealth to maintain a place of business in such mandating state to maintain a place of business in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 437.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0327 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105413D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1237ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105125D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rodney T. Willett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105125D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB1237)
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-06 Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Committee substitute printed 24105413D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 24105413D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1237H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1237H1)
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from General Laws and Technology (10-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1237ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB1237ER)
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 327 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0327)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ea892c6-744d-45b4-bc46-8c41786d69e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).