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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities, requirement for emergency incidents reporting."
+description: "Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Emergency Response Information System while sharing such emergency incident data with the Department of Fire Programs. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 1282."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2065"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2065 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joshua E. Thomas"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/467515df-e71b-43b7-934b-ad43fc7f9dba"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2065"
+source_hash: "1cde833923674db3500214db0347892a319b34bf3e9fa3ae36817aa8b9f44852"
+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 2065 (2025) — Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities, requirement for emergency incidents reporting.
+
+Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Emergency Response Information System while sharing such emergency incident data with the Department of Fire Programs. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to SB 1282.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1014947.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1070998.PDF)
+3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1033021.PDF)
+4. **General Laws Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1028577.HTML)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057196.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joshua E. Thomas — primary (person)
+- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100753D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2065)
+- **2025-01-20** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-28** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-31** General Laws Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-01-31** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2025-01-31** Printed as engrossed 25100753D-E
+- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2065)
+- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2065ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2065)
+- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 56 (Effective 07/01/26) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/467515df-e71b-43b7-934b-ad43fc7f9dba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+