republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2042.md

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Bill	Certified public accountant; educational requirements to qualify for CPA licensure.	Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual must have a license in good standing in another jurisdiction and have passed the CPA examination. The bill directs the Board of Accountancy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to SB 1042.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2042	Virginia HB 2042 (2025)	bill		enacted	Holly M. Seibold	5	32	7	2025-01-07	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/a8c8826d-6384-42ae-ae63-4c6cb4b94c59	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2042	9be7247e1687a032698dd42f87ba5271d1e7af6b4e3f4b63c1bae6322fd961d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2042 (2025) — Certified public accountant; educational requirements to qualify for CPA licensure.

Certified public accountant; educational requirements. Clarifies education and experience requirements for candidates to qualify for CPA licensure. The bill also provides that, to qualify for practice privileges within the Commonwealth, an individual must have a license in good standing in another jurisdiction and have passed the CPA examination. The bill directs the Board of Accountancy to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to SB 1042.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. General Laws Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holly M. Seibold — primary (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101153D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2042)
• 2025-01-20 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-28 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 General Laws Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-01-31 Printed as engrossed 25101153D-E
• 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2042)
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2042ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2042)
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8c8826d-6384-42ae-ae63-4c6cb4b94c59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).