republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-437.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 HB 1237.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 437	Virginia SB 437 (2024)	bill		enacted	David R. Suetterlein	5	37	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c6030ce9-ede1-47fd-85bc-646ca6f02916	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB437	d9997d12f69292315c199c2f7db11066c87b0deee1a86ad9b1caba2db65edac6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 437 (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 HB 1237.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0352 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105412D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104479D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB437ER (committee substitute) — source
5. SB437H1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104479D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (SB437)
• 2024-01-31 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24105412D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB437S1)
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24105412D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB437S1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 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 with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-15 Committee substitute printed h4410 substitution
• 2024-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 24107780D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB437H1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-23 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-23 Title replaced 24107780D-H1
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB437H1)
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB437ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB437ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 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
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 352 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6030ce9-ede1-47fd-85bc-646ca6f02916. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).