Business licenses; acceptable identification.
Summary
Business licenses; acceptable identification. Provides that for any application for a business license issued by a locality under its business, professional, and occupational license taxing authority, the locality shall not require an applicant to provide a social security number if the applicant provides his federal employer identification number instead. Further, if a valid federal employer identification number is provided, the locality shall not be required to determine the residency status of the applicant.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 17, 2020
Signed Mar 10, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 20, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 20, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
3
Committee
9
Amendments
1
Mar 10, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (effective 7/1/20)
Feb 20, 2020
Senate · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Feb 18, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Feb 5, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
Feb 4, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
Feb 3, 2020
House of Delegates · Amendment offered
Engrossed by House as amended HB1679E
Feb 3, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Committee amendment agreed to
Jan 29, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from Finance with amendment (21-Y 0-N)
Jan 29, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
Jan 27, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
Jan 27, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
Jan 23, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
Jan 17, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Finance
Jan 17, 2020
House of Delegates · Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 20104385D
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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