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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Individuals with disabilities; terminology."
+description: "Individuals with disabilities; terminology."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 798"
+citation: "Virginia SB 798 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hashmi"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2022-12-02"
+last_action: "2023-03-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85bd0cca-fc58-447f-909c-7a5d72f80142"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB798"
+source_hash: "d39c6470f94c1cc9c07865b88a353f6912670da591997ae3da325fba561a510e"
+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 798 (2023) — Individuals with disabilities; terminology.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0149** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0149)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100009D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB798)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 23100009D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB798E)
+4. **SB798ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB798ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (20-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hashmi — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-12-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100009D `filing, introduction`
+- **2022-12-02** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB798)
+- **2023-01-13** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-13** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-17** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-17** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2023-01-17** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-01-17** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB798E
+- **2023-01-17** Printed as engrossed 23100009D-E
+- **2023-01-18** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB798E)
+- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-14** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-17** Passed by for the day
+- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-20** Passed House (96-Y 2-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB798ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB798ER)
+- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85bd0cca-fc58-447f-909c-7a5d72f80142`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+