---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday."
description: "Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. This bill is identical to HB 108."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 601"
citation: "Virginia SB 601 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Louise Lucas"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf12c1d6-8b60-4954-a0e0-be2f30da7ef8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB601"
source_hash: "f50b532100cff41b81531f9d0c53a908045152feee9e455a9cb6b18a43696001"
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 601 (2020) — Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday.

Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. This bill is identical to HB 108.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0418)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB601ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB601ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB601)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB601)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 3-N) — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — **54–44** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rules (12-Y 5-N) — **12–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102752D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB601)
- **2020-01-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Rules (12-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed House (55-Y 44-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB601ER)
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-10** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 418 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf12c1d6-8b60-4954-a0e0-be2f30da7ef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).