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Bill Parental leave benefits; DHRM to implement and administer. Codifies the policy described in Executive Order Number 12 (2018) providing parental leave to state employees, consisting of eight weeks (320 hours) of paid leave in addition to leave provided under other state and federal programs. The bill requires that parental leave be available following the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child under age 18 and be available to both parents of such child if both are state employees. The bill requires that parental leave be taken within six months of a birth, adoption, or foster placement and limits parental leave to once in any 12-month period and only once per child. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 2234 Virginia HB 2234 (2019)
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Virginia HB 2234 (2019) — Parental leave benefits; DHRM to implement and administer.

Codifies the policy described in Executive Order Number 12 (2018) providing parental leave to state employees, consisting of eight weeks (320 hours) of paid leave in addition to leave provided under other state and federal programs. The bill requires that parental leave be available following the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child under age 18 and be available to both parents of such child if both are state employees. The bill requires that parental leave be taken within six months of a birth, adoption, or foster placement and limits parental leave to once in any 12-month period and only once per child. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0829) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2234ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100318D (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2234ER2) (committee substitute) — source
  5. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106835D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Finance with substitute — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by Senate — 391 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by House — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Appropriations — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Senate insisted on substitute — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Senate substitute rejected by House 19106835D-S1 — 295 (fail) · lower
  • House concurred in Governor's recommendation — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate with substitute — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Conference report agreed to by House — 907 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100318D introduction
  • 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2019-01-14 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & Retirement referral-committee
  • 2019-02-03 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-02-04 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
  • 2019-02-14 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2019-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 19106835D-S1
  • 2019-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2234S1
  • 2019-02-18 Placed on Calendar
  • 2019-02-18 Senate substitute rejected by House 19106835D-S1 (2-Y 95-N)
  • 2019-02-19 Senate requested conference committee
  • 2019-02-20 House acceded to request
  • 2019-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
  • 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by Senate
  • 2019-02-23 Amended by conference committee
  • 2019-02-23 Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
  • 2019-02-23 Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by House
  • 2019-02-23 Conference report agreed to by House (90-Y 7-N)
  • 2019-03-07 Enrolled
  • 2019-03-07 Signed by Speaker
  • 2019-03-09 Signed by President
  • 2019-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
  • 2019-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
  • 2019-03-22 Governor's recommendation received by House
  • 2019-04-03 Placed on Calendar
  • 2019-04-03 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (98-Y 0-N)
  • 2019-04-03 Governor's recommendation adopted
  • 2019-04-03 Reenrolled
  • 2019-04-03 Reenrolled bill text (HB2234ER2)
  • 2019-04-03 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
  • 2019-04-03 Signed by President as reenrolled
  • 2019-04-03 Enacted, Chapter 829 (effective 7/1/19) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f44496d2-8506-46bc-8537-762722691770. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).