---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Management, Virginia Department of; local sheltering data."
description: "Requires localities to provide the State Coordinator of Emergency Management with certain data related to emergency sheltering capabilities on or before May 1 of each year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1367"
citation: "Virginia HB 1367 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Military and Emergency Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerrauld C. \"Jay\" Jones"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d48a5ca8-a2ca-4698-bb55-e76b07a6caf1"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1367"
source_hash: "88a89532b950ad7790eaa25f628aa5ff667d37ae2e597e523e2b80c78b7fcab8"
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 1367 (2018) — Emergency Management, Virginia Department of; local sheltering data.

Requires localities to provide the State Coordinator of Emergency Management with certain data related to emergency sheltering capabilities on or before May 1 of each year.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1367ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1367ER)
2. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18102704D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1367)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — primary (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-12** Presented and ordered printed 18102704D `introduction`
- **2018-01-12** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-01** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2018-02-01** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 228 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d48a5ca8-a2ca-4698-bb55-e76b07a6caf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).