VA HB2478 | 2019 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 21 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 21 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Virginia Stock Corporation Act. Updates and modernizes the Virginia Stock Corporation Act (the Act) to conform to many provisions of the 2016 revision of the Model Business Corporation Act produced by the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section. The Act is amended to, among other things, (i) provide corporations greater authorization to combine with or convert into noncorporate entities, whether domiciled in Virginia or in another jurisdiction; (ii) provide that a combination or conversion with a business entity that would expose a shareholder to personal liability for the entity's liabilities requires the prior consent of each affected shareholder; (iii) define "expenses" as including reasonable expenses of any kind, including attorney fees; (iv) specify that notices to a corporation be delivered to the corporation's secretary; (v) add an article that establishes processes a corporation may follow to correct a failure to properly authorize a corporate actor an over-issuance of shares; (vi) confirm that a corporation's designation of an exclusive forum for resolution of internal corporate claims trumps any other provision in the Act that permits the action to be brought in another forum; (vii) authorize the articles of incorporation to provide whether shareholders have the right to cumulate their votes in the election of directors; (viii) require that the plaintiff in a derivative suit be a shareholder at the time he made the requisite demand on the corporation to take suitable action, as well as at the time of the commencement of, and during, the proceeding; (ix) clarify that if a shareholder demand for a derivative suit is rejected and a derivative suit is commenced, the plaintiff's right of discovery is limited to facts that are alleged with particularity in the complaint; (x) permit the appropriate circuit court to remove a director who has defrauded the corporation, grossly abused his power, or intentionally inflicted harm to the corporation; (xi) provide officers with protection from liability to the extent that they relied in good faith on the advice or performance of others; (xii) spell out the relief that a court can grant in a proceeding by a director or officer for advance, reimbursement, or indemnity; (xiii) establish a process by which a corporation may abandon an amendment or restatement of its articles of incorporation after it has been adopted by shareholders but prior to its effective date; (xiv) reduce the amount of detail that is required to be included in the articles of amendment regarding the shareholder vote to approve an amendment of the articles of incorporation; (xv) establish requirements for approval of a plan of domestication or conversion by the holders of outstanding shares of each class and series voting as separate voting groups; (xvi) permit a domestic corporation to convert to a type of eligible entity, including a nonstock corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, other than only a limited liability company as is currently permitted; (xvii) limit the appraisal rights on the sale of substantially all assets to a sale to an interested person; (xviii) provide appraisal rights on a conversion to any unincorporated entity; and (xix) permit a corporation to impose reasonable restrictions on the confidential use and distribution of financial statements and other records that a shareholder receives in the exercise of inspection rights. The measure incudes technical changes. Several provisions have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2020.
Title
Virginia Stock Corporation Act; modernizes and updates Act.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2019-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 6 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 6 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2019-03-21 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0734) | |
2019-03-21 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 734 (effective - see bill) | |
2019-03-11 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019 | |
2019-03-11 | House | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019 |
2019-03-09 | Senate | Signed by President |
2019-03-07 | House | Signed by Speaker |
2019-03-07 | House | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2478ER) |
2019-03-07 | House | Enrolled |
2019-02-15 | Senate | Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
2019-02-15 | Senate | Read third time |
2019-02-14 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
2019-02-13 | Senate | Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
2019-02-11 | Senate | Rereferred to Finance |
2019-02-11 | Senate | Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N 1-A) |
2019-02-06 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
2019-02-06 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
2019-02-05 | House | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) |
2019-02-05 | House | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) |
2019-02-04 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2478H1 |
2019-02-04 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 19104722D-H1 |
2019-02-04 | House | Read second time |
2019-02-03 | House | Read first time |
2019-01-31 | House | Committee substitute printed 19104722D-H1 |
2019-01-31 | House | Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (16-Y 0-N) |
2019-01-09 | House | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
2019-01-09 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102512D |
Code Citations
Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
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13 | 1 | 603 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 604 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 604.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 606 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 612 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 614 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 614.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 614.8 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 616 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 619 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 623 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 624 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 625 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 627 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 629 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 632 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 634 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 635 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 636 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 638 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 649 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 651 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 670 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 671.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 672.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 672.7 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 680 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 681.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 682 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 685 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 687 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 690.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 692 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 699 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 700.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 711 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 712.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 713 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 721.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.12:1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.13 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.14 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.1:1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.2 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.3 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.4 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.5 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.6 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.7 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.7:1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 722.8 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 723 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 724 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 725 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 727 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 728.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 728.4 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 728.7 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 728.9 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 734 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 735.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 737 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 746.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 746.3 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 747 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 748 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 749.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 750 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 751 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 755 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 757 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 761 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 763 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 768.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
13 | 1 | 775 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |