HB 691 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Business entities; conversion and domestication.

Summary
Business entities; conversion and domestication.Provides that, for the purposes of the Virginia Nonstock CorporationAct, the Virginia Limited Liability Act, and the Virginia BusinessTrust Act, "entity conversion" has the same meaning as "conversion"as defined in each respective act and that a certificate of entityconversion is the same as a certificate of conversion. Additionally,the bill provides that "incorporation surrender," "organizationsurrender," and "trust surrender" have the same meaning as "domestication"as defined in each such respective act and that a certificate ofincorporation surrender, certificate of organization surrender, anda certificate of trust surrender are the same as a certificate ofdomestication.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Feb 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 11, 2022 Signed Apr 5, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 3, 2022 · House of Delegates Jan 31, 2022

How they voted

33–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 34
Mar 3, 2022
D Democratic18
18 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican16
15 Yea 1
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Apr 5, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 82 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Mar 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 28, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 1, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
upper
Jan 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Commerce and Energy (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101240D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Mark L. Keam
Mark L. Keam
DDemocratic
VA
35