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type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans Services, Board of; increases membership and clarifies scope of responsibilities."
description: "Increases the membership of the Board of Veterans Services by adding an additional member of the House of Delegates, an additional member of the Senate of Virginia, an additional nonlegislative citizen member, and an additional ex officio member, the Chairman of the Virginia War Memorial Foundation. The bill also clarifies the scope of responsibility of the Board to include policy recommendations related to the mission of the Virginia War Memorial. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1241"
citation: "Virginia SB 1241 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Armed Forces", "Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-05"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfddeea7-2fd9-4f7d-a75c-2ca1c5d55b16"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1241"
source_hash: "0212e48fc8debb9a09d91283a27e25b7dc5ff06996d4652864b123941d23e6fd"
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 1241 (2019) — Veterans Services, Board of; increases membership and clarifies scope of responsibilities.
Increases the membership of the Board of Veterans Services by adding an additional member of the House of Delegates, an additional member of the Senate of Virginia, an additional nonlegislative citizen member, and an additional ex officio member, the Chairman of the Virginia War Memorial Foundation. The bill also clarifies the scope of responsibility of the Board to include policy recommendations related to the mission of the Virginia War Memorial. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2020.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0040)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1241ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1241ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101671D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1241)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **140** (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws — **210** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101671D `introduction`
- **2019-01-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-08** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled
- **2019-02-11** Signed by President
- **2019-02-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
- **2019-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 40 (effective 1/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfddeea7-2fd9-4f7d-a75c-2ca1c5d55b16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).