---
type: "Bill"
title: "Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority; repeals effective date for creation of Authority."
description: "Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority;effective date. Repeals the contingent effective date for thecreation of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Suchcontingency has been met. This bill is a recommendation of the CodeCommission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1214"
citation: "Virginia SB 1214 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John S. Edwards"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bbb3710-9fa4-4ca3-935f-c0ce9b3ab4a9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1214"
source_hash: "908008a3238e28e059dcf641e1d273b57e65395cd15b4ab5d8c7aaa4cfbcc6b0"
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 1214 (2021) — Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority; repeals effective date for creation of Authority.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority;effective date. Repeals the contingent effective date for thecreation of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Suchcontingency has been met. This bill is a recommendation of the CodeCommission.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0377** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0377)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100062D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1214)
3. **SB1214ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1214ER)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John S. Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100062D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB1214)
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation
- **2021-02-09** Assigned Transportation sub: Transportation Systems `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-16** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-19** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled
- **2021-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB1214ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by President
- **2021-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
- **2021-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1bbb3710-9fa4-4ca3-935f-c0ce9b3ab4a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).