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type: "Bill"
title: "Sale of caskets; preneed arrangements for funeral services."
description: "Prohibits any person except a licensed funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee from offering for sale or selling a casket when preneed arrangements for funeral services are being made, including preneed funeral contracts and preneed funeral planning. The bill provides that the requirement that a funeral service licensee accept a casket provided by a third party applies only in cases in which funeral arrangements are made at-need. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1247"
citation: "Virginia SB 1247 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-05"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f37188da-7e80-484b-afb2-b36e3c29752b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1247"
source_hash: "a22a443597a113268c76c5f3c4867725e991f312d16561fdba7d6b29ba8f4e23"
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 1247 (2019) — Sale of caskets; preneed arrangements for funeral services.
Prohibits any person except a licensed funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee from offering for sale or selling a casket when preneed arrangements for funeral services are being made, including preneed funeral contracts and preneed funeral planning. The bill provides that the requirement that a funeral service licensee accept a casket provided by a third party applies only in cases in which funeral arrangements are made at-need. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0093)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1247ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1247ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105336D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1247S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101786D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1247)
## Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **381** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **130** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101786D `introduction`
- **2019-01-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Rereferred to Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-01-28** Committee substitute agreed to 19105336D-S1
- **2019-01-28** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1247S1
- **2019-02-04** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled
- **2019-02-12** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-13** Signed by President
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
- **2019-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 93 (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/f37188da-7e80-484b-afb2-b36e3c29752b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).