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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Administrative Process Act; final orders, electronic retention."
+description: "Administrative Process Act; final orders; electronic retention. Clarifies that signed originals of final agency casedecisions may be retained in an electronic medium. This bill is arecommendation of the Administrative Law Advisory Committee and theVirginia Code Commission."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 480"
+citation: "Virginia SB 480 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer L. McClellan"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f12ba1d-76e7-4c98-bc9c-eac2700c1dc7"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB480"
+source_hash: "ecc696960b71890086824b7549fd8002e574fbcfa376c99b89c544b6eea897e0"
+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 480 (2022) — Administrative Process Act; final orders, electronic retention.
+
+Administrative Process Act; final orders; electronic retention. Clarifies that signed originals of final agency casedecisions may be retained in an electronic medium. This bill is arecommendation of the Administrative Law Advisory Committee and theVirginia Code Commission.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0247** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0247)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101116D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB480)
+3. **SB480ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB480ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101116D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-26** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-01** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-01** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-01** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-04** Passed by temporarily
+- **2022-03-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 247 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f12ba1d-76e7-4c98-bc9c-eac2700c1dc7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+