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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process."
+description: "Automatic exemption of emergency relief payments during a state of emergency; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals and businesses during a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The bill further requires a financial institution receiving such payments directly from a governing body to set aside such payment as exempt from the creditor process under certain circumstances. The bill provides that, if a financial institution does not set aside such payments as exempt, the accountholder receiving such payments must claim the exemption. The bill contains an emergency clause."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020specialI"
+identifier: "HB 5068"
+citation: "Virginia HB 5068 (2020specialI)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2020-08-18"
+last_action: "2020-10-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bca660f-0d79-4f2c-8af5-9e06b6598f83"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5068"
+source_hash: "4b2834bec70ed744feee4b19c6e5c341af586acbeec8c55527f49ae251b6e16c"
+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 HB 5068 (2020specialI) — Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process.
+
+Automatic exemption of emergency relief payments during a state of emergency; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals and businesses during a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The bill further requires a financial institution receiving such payments directly from a governing body to set aside such payment as exempt from the creditor process under certain circumstances. The bill provides that, if a financial institution does not set aside such payments as exempt, the accountholder receiving such payments must claim the exemption. The bill contains an emergency clause.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+CHAP0039)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5068ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5068ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5068H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5068)
+4. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5068H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5068H1)
+5. **Engrossed by Senate- floor substitute HB5068S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5068S2)
+6. **HB5068S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5068S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate insisted on substitute (34-Y 2-N) — **34–2** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Agreed To (83-Y 14-N) — **82–14** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: (82-Y 16-N) — **81–16** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 2-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 4-N) — **36–4** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Rejected (66-Y 27-N) — **65–27** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N) — **36–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-08-18** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200825D `introduction`
+- **2020-08-18** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2020-08-18** Introduced bill reprinted 20200825D
+- **2020-08-26** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-08-26** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-08-26** Committee substitute printed 20201042D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-08-28** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-09-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-09-03** Committee substitute agreed to 20201042D-H1
+- **2020-09-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5068H1
+- **2020-09-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (82-Y 16-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-09-04** VOTE: (82-Y 16-N)
+- **2020-09-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-09-09** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-09-16** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-09-16** Committee substitute printed 20201176D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2020-09-16** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-09-24** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 2-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-09-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-10-01** Passed by temporarily
+- **2020-10-01** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-10-01** Committee substitute rejected
+- **2020-10-01** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2020-10-01** Substitute by Senator Petersen agreed to
+- **2020-10-01** Engrossed by Senate- floor substitute HB5068S2
+- **2020-10-01** Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 4-N) `passage`
+- **2020-10-01** Floor substitute printed 20201273D-S2 (Petersen)
+- **2020-10-02** Senate substitute rejected by House (66-Y 27-N) (Requires 78 affirmative votes to pass)
+- **2020-10-02** VOTE: Rejected (66-Y 27-N)
+- **2020-10-07** Senate insisted on substitute (34-Y 2-N)
+- **2020-10-07** Senate requested conference committee
+- **2020-10-07** House acceded to request
+- **2020-10-07** Conferees appointed by House
+- **2020-10-07** Conferees appointed by Senate
+- **2020-10-13** Amended by conference committee
+- **2020-10-14** Conference report agreed to by House (83-Y 14-N)
+- **2020-10-14** VOTE: Agreed To (83-Y 14-N)
+- **2020-10-14** Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N)
+- **2020-10-16** Enrolled
+- **2020-10-16** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-10-16** Signed by President
+- **2020-10-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
+- **2020-10-21** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
+- **2020-10-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 39 (effective 10/28/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0bca660f-0d79-4f2c-8af5-9e06b6598f83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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