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Bill Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel; revises membership and duties, report. Revises the membership of the Secure Commonwealth Panel, renamed the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel, and requires the Panel to create an Emergency Management Awareness Group consisting of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology. The bill requires the Group to meet during a state of emergency to review critical information concerning such situation to facilitate communication between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government. The bill dissolves the Virginia Emergency Response Council and transfers its duties to the Panel. The bill contains technical amendments. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 HB 1998 Virginia HB 1998 (2017)
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Virginia HB 1998 (2017) — Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel; revises membership and duties, report.

Revises the membership of the Secure Commonwealth Panel, renamed the Secure and Resilient Commonwealth Panel, and requires the Panel to create an Emergency Management Awareness Group consisting of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology. The bill requires the Group to meet during a state of emergency to review critical information concerning such situation to facilitate communication between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government. The bill dissolves the Virginia Emergency Response Council and transfers its duties to the Panel. The bill contains technical amendments.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0512) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1998ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104839D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102169D (committee substitute) — source
  5. House: Printed as engrossed 17104839D-EH1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 980 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate with amendments — 390 (pass) · legislature
  • Senate amendments agreed to by House — 930 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments — 140 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute — 210 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate with amendments — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • L. Scott Lingamfelter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102169D introduction
  • 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety referral-committee
  • 2017-01-17 Assigned MPPS sub: #2 referral-committee
  • 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-31 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 17104839D-H1
  • 2017-01-31 Amendments by Delegate Lingamfelter agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2017-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB1998EH1
  • 2017-01-31 Printed as engrossed 17104839D-EH1
  • 2017-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2017-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2017-02-02 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2017-02-16 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-16 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2017-02-16 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2017-02-16 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2017-02-20 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-02-20 Senate amendments agreed to by House (93-Y 0-N)
  • 2017-02-23 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-23 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-24 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
  • 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
  • 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 512 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ddfc9bc-7170-4d93-9d0b-0c5e5b5dc5dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).