republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1412.md

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Bill	Adoption; leave benefit.	Creates a new program of parental leave benefits for full-time state employees with one or more years of continuous employment with the Commonwealth who (i) adopt an infant under one year of age or (ii) are the natural father of an infant under one year of age. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity leave. The bill specifies that the parental leave coverage shall apply only to eligible state employees who take custody of an infant in the course of an adoption on or after July 1, 2018, or, for a natural father, for an infant born on or after July 1, 2018. The Department of Human Resource Management is directed to develop guidelines and policies for implementing the parental leave benefits. The bill also directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to analyze parental leave benefits for state employees in other states and the costs of providing such benefits to the employees of the Commonwealth. The bill has a reenactment clause that applies to all provisions of the bill except the JLARC study, which is effective July 1, 2017.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1412	Virginia SB 1412 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Labor and Employment Minors Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	David R. Suetterlein	4	27	13	2017-01-11	2017-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/be3125ea-0a4e-4559-9358-91b03f182489	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1412	135e5d70fc4cecf779bbd975d8ae151a4c4377acd0537be4d842cacb699286a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1412 (2017) — Adoption; leave benefit.

Creates a new program of parental leave benefits for full-time state employees with one or more years of continuous employment with the Commonwealth who (i) adopt an infant under one year of age or (ii) are the natural father of an infant under one year of age. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity leave. The bill specifies that the parental leave coverage shall apply only to eligible state employees who take custody of an infant in the course of an adoption on or after July 1, 2018, or, for a natural father, for an infant born on or after July 1, 2018. The Department of Human Resource Management is directed to develop guidelines and policies for implementing the parental leave benefits. The bill also directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to analyze parental leave benefits for state employees in other states and the costs of providing such benefits to the employees of the Commonwealth. The bill has a reenactment clause that applies to all provisions of the bill except the JLARC study, which is effective July 1, 2017.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 17105676D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1412ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102878D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate acceded to request — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 16–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• House substitute rejected by Senate — 0–39 (fail) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws — 19–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 6–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
• Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
• Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102878D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-08 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2017-02-14 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-22 Passed by temporarily
• 2017-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-22 Committee substitute agreed to 17105676D-H1
• 2017-02-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1412H1
• 2017-02-22 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2017-02-23 House insisted on substitute
• 2017-02-23 House requested conference committee
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-24 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 634 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be3125ea-0a4e-4559-9358-91b03f182489. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).