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Housing-Consumer Protection Subcommittee

Thursday, February 26, 2026·7m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Housing-Consumer Protection Subcommittee advanced two bills unanimously, including a substitute measure directing a review of Virginia's real estate salesperson licensure process and a conforming action aligning Senate Bill 294 with an identical House bill that had already cleared both civil law subcommittee and the full House.

Key Actions

·No Bill Number – Real Estate Salesperson Licensure Process Review (Pillion Substitute)Passed

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Notable Quotes

“The goal is now just to review and develop recommendations to change to improve the timeliness and the effectiveness of the real estate salesperson licensure process.”

Senator Pillion (Doug Pilling) — Senator Pillion was describing the purpose of the substitute bill, which shifted from directly addressing license processing speed to requesting a review and recommendations on streamlining the process.

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Votes

Approve the substitute — Pillian real estate salesperson licensure billPassed
Report Pillian real estate salesperson licensure billPassed
Conform SB 294 to HB 1361No Vote
Report SB 294 as substitutePassed
AdjournPassed
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TranscriptPreview
All right. Good evening. We are here for our, hopefully, one of our last meetings of the general laws Housing consumer protection subcommittee. Members will indicate their presence on the electronic voting board. Clerk will close the roll. A quorum is present. Senator Pillian, you've got a substitute. Can I get a motion on the substitute to moved in second that we approve the substitute? As many as further motion say aye. Those opposed? All right, the substitute is before us. So, Doug Pilling, you had a bill that was initially trying to get to a very specific issue with the speed at which real estate licenses were handled, and you've changed it to more of a. Let's ask for some guidance on what we can do to sort of speed up that process. Am I understanding your substitute correctly, Mr. Chair? That is correct. The goal is now just to review and develop recommendations to change to improve the timeliness and the effectiveness of the real estate salesperson licensure process. And that's the bill as substituted. Gotcha. And I guess we have some folks that could talk about the problem we're trying to solve, but it was that folks…
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