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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Constitutional officers; local leave benefits."
+description: "Authorizes constitutional officers who have contracted with a county or city to grant vacation and sick leave to their employees under the locality's benefits leave policy instead of the state-required leave policy as long as the leave amounts are not less than the state-required policy."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 936"
+citation: "Virginia SB 936 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2016-12-29"
+last_action: "2017-03-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40fefd74-3063-477e-aeea-db1704c6bff9"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB936"
+source_hash: "f735d679b0a72cd01ccb63e3377d516a01864dc852449cafccc6ffdddb25265a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 936 (2017) — Constitutional officers; local leave benefits.
+
+Authorizes constitutional officers who have contracted with a county or city to grant vacation and sick leave to their employees under the locality's benefits leave policy instead of the state-required leave policy as long as the leave amounts are not less than the state-required policy.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0632)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB936ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB936ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101928D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB936)
+4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17101928D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB936E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed House — **99–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **17–5** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Local Government with amendments — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-12-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101928D `introduction`
+- **2016-12-29** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-20** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-23** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2017-01-23** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2017-01-23** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB936E
+- **2017-01-23** Printed as engrossed 17101928D-E
+- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-22** Passed House (99-Y 1-N) `passage`
+- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
+- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 632 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40fefd74-3063-477e-aeea-db1704c6bff9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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