---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities, requirement for emergency incidents reporting."
description: "Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Emergency Response Information System while sharing such emergency incident data with the Department of Fire Programs. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to HB 2065."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1282"
citation: "Virginia SB 1282 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tara A. Durant"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed993d17-5fa5-48d3-80bc-14f3c795313f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1282"
source_hash: "fddfe9c5f2c6989e6639becc858b3676dd642ea770333976269a8cfccfa146ff"
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 1282 (2025) — Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities, requirement for emergency incidents reporting.

Fire Programs Fund; aid to localities; requirement for emergency incidents reporting. Requires that, in order to remain eligible for funding from the Fire Programs Fund, a locality must report all emergency incidents through the National Emergency Response Information System while sharing such emergency incident data with the Department of Fire Programs. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. This bill is identical to HB 2065.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018661.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071022.PDF)
3. **General Laws Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1043756.PDF)
4. **General Laws Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1047029.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060152.PDF)

## Votes

- House substitute agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (19-Y 0-N) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tara A. Durant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104267D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-02-11** Reported from General Laws with substitute (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Committee substitute printed 25106894D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1282)
- **2025-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** General Laws Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-14** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-14** Passed House with substitute (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** House substitute agreed to by Senate `substitution`
- **2025-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1282ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-25** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1282)
- **2025-03-05** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 69 (Effective 07/01/26) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0069)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed993d17-5fa5-48d3-80bc-14f3c795313f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).