Virginia House Bill 31 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on February 23 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices. Restores the ability of insurers, when sending certain types of notices, including notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of a motor vehicle, commercial liability, or homeowners insurance policy, to use mailing methods for which a certificate of mailing is obtained from the United States Postal Service, provided that certificates of bulk mail are not permissible. The measure also clarifies that Intelligent Mail barcode Tracing is a permitted first-class mail tracking method and clarifies that insurers are required to maintain records regarding the sending of such notices for one year, regardless of the method used to send the notice.

Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices.

Del. Jackson Miller [R]

Del. Mark Keam [D]

Del. David Yancey [R]

2016-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-19 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-19 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-14 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004)
2016-02-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 4 (effective 2/23/16)
2016-02-16		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 23, 2016
2016-02-16	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/16/16
2016-02-15	Senate	Signed by President
2016-02-15	House	Signed by Speaker
2016-02-15	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB31ER)
2016-02-15	House	Enrolled
2016-02-11	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2016-02-11	Senate	Read third time
2016-02-10	Senate	Read second time
2016-02-08	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N)
2016-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2016-01-20	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2016-01-19	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
2016-01-19	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2016-01-19	House	Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
2016-01-19	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-01-19	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-01-18	House	Read second time and engrossed
2016-01-15	House	Read first time
2016-01-14	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N)
2015-11-18	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2015-11-18	House	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 16100926D

SB192 (Same As) 2016-03-01 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	2	2113	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	2208	(n/a)	See Bill Text
38	2	231	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB31
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB31+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB31ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0004+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H14V0001+HB0031
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0018+HB0031
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0020+HB0031
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S02V0046+HB0031
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0317HB0031+HB0031