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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Continuity of government; extends period of time that locality may provide after disaster, etc."
+description: "Continuity of government. Extends fromsix to 12 months the period of time after an enemy attack or otherdisaster that a locality may, by ordinance, provide for a method toassure continuity in its government and requires the ordinance toprovide a method for the locality to resume normal governmentalauthority by the end of that 12-month period."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1208"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1208 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-01-11"
+last_action: "2021-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bcabfdd-8ae3-483f-85b7-90a34ba137da"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1208"
+source_hash: "82fc2b281c7aba72daa0129759cc510f8578d53e7c970e6565b1245e81cbbbf3"
+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 1208 (2021) — Continuity of government; extends period of time that locality may provide after disaster, etc.
+
+Continuity of government. Extends fromsix to 12 months the period of time after an enemy attack or otherdisaster that a locality may, by ordinance, provide for a method toassure continuity in its government and requires the ordinance toprovide a method for the locality to resume normal governmentalauthority by the end of that 12-month period.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0295** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0295)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102240D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1208)
+3. **SB1208ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1208ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 1-N) — **19–1** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N) — **92–6** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- George L. Barker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102240D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-18** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
+- **2021-02-19** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-24** Passed House (93-Y 6-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-24** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N)
+- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
+- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 295 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0bcabfdd-8ae3-483f-85b7-90a34ba137da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+