---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive plan; encouraged to consider strategies to address resilience."
description: "Comprehensive plan; encouraged to consider strategies to address resilience."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1187"
citation: "Virginia SB 1187 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lewis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b472ab5c-26a9-4436-a861-af8bddff237d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1187"
source_hash: "4d4e2afbcb062e667c2361b73577bcdb11eef07246136f05de2222c1ba6347cf"
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 1187 (2023) — Comprehensive plan; encouraged to consider strategies to address resilience.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0354** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0354)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102509D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1187)
3. **SB1187ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1187ER)

## Votes

- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102509D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (SB1187)
- **2023-01-16** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-10** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-10** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2023-02-15** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-22** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1187ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 354 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0354)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b472ab5c-26a9-4436-a861-af8bddff237d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).