---
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 SB 1282."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2065"
citation: "Virginia HB 2065 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joshua E. Thomas"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/467515df-e71b-43b7-934b-ad43fc7f9dba"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2065"
source_hash: "1cde833923674db3500214db0347892a319b34bf3e9fa3ae36817aa8b9f44852"
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 2065 (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 SB 1282.

## 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/1014947.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1070998.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1033021.PDF)
4. **General Laws Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1028577.HTML)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057196.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joshua E. Thomas — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100753D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2065)
- **2025-01-20** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-28** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-31** General Laws Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-01-31** Printed as engrossed 25100753D-E
- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2065)
- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2065ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2065)
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 56 (Effective 07/01/26) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/467515df-e71b-43b7-934b-ad43fc7f9dba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).