---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; crisis and emergency management plan, annual exercise."
description: "Requires each public institution of higher education to annually conduct a test or exercise in accordance with the protocols established by the institution's crisis and emergency management plan and certify in writing to the Department of Emergency Management that such a test or exercise was conducted. Under current law, each such institution is required to annually conduct a functional exercise in accordance with the protocols of such plan. The bill declares that the activation of its crisis and emergency management plan and completion of an after-action report by a public institution of higher education in response to an actual event or incident satisfies the requirement to conduct such a test or exercise. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1430"
citation: "Virginia HB 1430 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a0b755b-1341-4d9e-81d6-9bfa13f10ad6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1430"
source_hash: "3d72738e95de9093019c4f23e086824b6026bfe5d4d7d8b0c34f00380b5643e0"
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 1430 (2018) — Higher educational institutions, public; crisis and emergency management plan, annual exercise.

Requires each public institution of higher education to annually conduct a test or exercise in accordance with the protocols established by the institution's crisis and emergency management plan and certify in writing to the Department of Emergency Management that such a test or exercise was conducted. Under current law, each such institution is required to annually conduct a functional exercise in accordance with the protocols of such plan. The bill declares that the activation of its crisis and emergency management plan and completion of an after-action report by a public institution of higher education in response to an actual event or incident satisfies the requirement to conduct such a test or exercise. This bill is identical to

## 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 (HB1430ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1430ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105549D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1430H1)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18104817D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1430)

## Votes

- Reported from Education with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 18104817D `introduction`
- **2018-01-16** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Committee substitute agreed to 18105549D-H1
- **2018-02-05** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1430H1
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (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/5a0b755b-1341-4d9e-81d6-9bfa13f10ad6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).