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type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate broker; definition."
description: "Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; definition of a real estate broker. Adds to the definition of \"real estate broker\" any individual or business entity who sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, negotiates, or otherwise deals in real estate contracts, including assignable contracts, on two or more occasions in any 12-month period for compensation or valuable consideration. The bill contains technical amendments and is identical to HB 917."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 358"
citation: "Virginia SB 358 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schuyler T. VanValkenburg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/946b336a-6226-45b5-99ad-5deafb8d1aaf"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB358"
source_hash: "2a02d60e47ff5186ddf595b0b5b0eb91fa156fe9cf41f02d1f81d8670ae92cb9"
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 358 (2024) — Real estate broker; definition.
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; definition of a real estate broker. Adds to the definition of "real estate broker" any individual or business entity who sells or offers to sell, buys or offers to buy, negotiates, or otherwise deals in real estate contracts, including assignable contracts, on two or more occasions in any 12-month period for compensation or valuable consideration. The bill contains technical amendments and is identical to HB 917.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0621** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0621)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104480D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB358)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24104480D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB358E)
4. **SB358ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB358ER)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104480D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-17** Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Reading of amendments waived
- **2024-01-22** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB358E
- **2024-01-22** Printed as engrossed 24104480D-E
- **2024-01-23** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB358E)
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-20** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-26** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB358ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB358ER)
- **2024-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 621 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0621)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/946b336a-6226-45b5-99ad-5deafb8d1aaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).