Virginia House Bill 11 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on November 16 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Commerce and Labor
Pending: House Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Gift certificates. Prohibits a merchant issuing a gift certificate issued in the Commonwealth from (i) charging a maintenance fee or inactivity fee on a gift certificate or (ii) issuing a gift certificate that automatically expires, diminishes in value, or otherwise becomes unredeemable. Gift certificates are required to include a telephone number or Internet address where the holder of the gift certificate may obtain information regarding its available balance. The measure applies to gift certificates issued on or after January 1, 2017.

Gift certificates; prohibited practices by merchant issuing certificate issued in the Commonwealth.

Del. Mark Cole [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Commerce and Labor
2016-01-19	House	Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1
2015-11-16	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2015-11-16	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100567D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
59	1	530	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	1	530.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	1	531	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB11
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB11+hil