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type: "Bill"
title: "Constitutional officers; local leave benefits."
description: "Authorizes constitutional officers who have contracted with a county or city to grant vacation and sick leave to their employees under the locality's benefits leave policy instead of the state-required leave policy as long as the leave amounts are not less than the state-required policy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 936"
citation: "Virginia SB 936 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-12-29"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40fefd74-3063-477e-aeea-db1704c6bff9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB936"
source_hash: "f735d679b0a72cd01ccb63e3377d516a01864dc852449cafccc6ffdddb25265a"
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 936 (2017) — Constitutional officers; local leave benefits.
Authorizes constitutional officers who have contracted with a county or city to grant vacation and sick leave to their employees under the locality's benefits leave policy instead of the state-required leave policy as long as the leave amounts are not less than the state-required policy.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0632)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0632)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB936ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB936ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101928D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB936)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17101928D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB936E)
## Votes
- Passed House — **991** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **175** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government with amendments — **120** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-12-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101928D `introduction`
- **2016-12-29** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Passed by for the day
- **2017-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-01-23** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-23** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB936E
- **2017-01-23** Printed as engrossed 17101928D-E
- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Assigned App. sub: Compensation and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Passed House (99-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **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 632 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40fefd74-3063-477e-aeea-db1704c6bff9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).