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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday."
+description: "Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. This bill is identical to HB 108."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 601"
+citation: "Virginia SB 601 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["L. Louise Lucas"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-01-07"
+last_action: "2020-03-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf12c1d6-8b60-4954-a0e0-be2f30da7ef8"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB601"
+source_hash: "f50b532100cff41b81531f9d0c53a908045152feee9e455a9cb6b18a43696001"
+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 601 (2020) — Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday.
+
+Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. This bill is identical to HB 108.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0418)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB601ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB601ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB601)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB601)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 3-N) — **9–3** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — **54–44** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Rules (12-Y 5-N) — **12–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
+- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102752D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB601)
+- **2020-01-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Reported from Rules (12-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-24** Passed House (55-Y 44-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
+- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB601ER)
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-10** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
+- **2020-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 418 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf12c1d6-8b60-4954-a0e0-be2f30da7ef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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