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type: "Bill"
title: "Portable electronics insurance; issuing and correspondence."
description: "Authorizes an insurer or vendor of portable electronics insurance to issue notices and correspondence by mail or by electronic means. The bill provides that a consumer's provision of an electronic mail address to such an insurer or vendor shall be considered to be the customer's consent to receive notices and correspondence by electronic means so long as a disclosure to that effect is provided to the customer within 30 days following the purchase of portable electronics insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2723"
citation: "Virginia HB 2723 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony O. Wilt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15c9e642-7bfc-4083-bcae-d5c32b47aeaa"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2723"
source_hash: "97b62eb0271feb050dccda9d4ec83a4939796770d1d664edba1014b84f726d19"
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 HB 2723 (2019) — Portable electronics insurance; issuing and correspondence.
Authorizes an insurer or vendor of portable electronics insurance to issue notices and correspondence by mail or by electronic means. The bill provides that a consumer's provision of an electronic mail address to such an insurer or vendor shall be considered to be the customer's consent to receive notices and correspondence by electronic means so long as a disclosure to that effect is provided to the customer within 30 days following the purchase of portable electronics insurance.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0523)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0523)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2723)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2723ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2723ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105210D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2723H1)
5. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104405D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2723)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **70** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **963** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **140** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **190** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 19104405D `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19105210D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2723H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 523 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15c9e642-7bfc-4083-bcae-d5c32b47aeaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).