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2003 SESSION
SB 879 Professional corporations; professional limited liability companies.
Introduced by: William C. Wampler, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Professional corporations; professional limited liability companies. Provides that, unless otherwise prohibited by law or regulation, professional services may be rendered by either a professional corporation or a general business corporation. Parallel provisions are added to the Limited Liability Company Act. A provision corrects existing language that states that all shareholders of a foreign professional stock corporation be licensed to render the professional service in Virginia, because currently accounting, architecture, professional engineering, and land surveying can be rendered by domestic professional corporations with unlicensed shareholders. Other changes clarify that nurse practitioners may organize to the same extent as other professionals, by inserting language omitted from the 1999 legislation that authorized them to so organize. The bill has an emergency clause.
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:
Professional corporations; professional limited liability companies. Provides that, unless otherwise prohibited by law or regulation, professional services may be rendered by either a professional corporation or a general business corporation. Parallel provisions are added to the Limited Liability Company Act. A provision corrects existing language that states that all shareholders of a foreign professional stock corporation be licensed to render the professional service in Virginia, because currently accounting, architecture, professional engineering, and land surveying can be rendered by domestic professional corporations with unlicensed shareholders. Other changes clarify that nurse practitioners may organize to the same extent as other professionals, by inserting language omitted from the 1999 legislation that authorized them to so organize. The bill has an emergency clause.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Professional corporations; professional limited liability companies. Prohibits a corporation engaged in the practice of a professional service from organizing as a general business corporation. A parallel change provides that the only limited liability companies that can provide professional services are those organized as professional limited liability companies. A provision corrects existing language that states that all shareholders of a foreign professional stock corporation be licensed to render the professional service in Virginia, because currently accounting, architecture, professional engineering, and land surveying can be rendered by domestic professional corporations with unlicensed shareholders. Other changes clarify that nurse practitioners may organize to the same extent as other professionals, by inserting language omitted from the 1999 legislation that authorized them to so organize.