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Bill	Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents.	Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents. Provides that children born or adopted after the death or disability of an employee covered by the Line of Duty Act are eligible for health insurance coverage if their birth or adoption occurred after the time of the employee's death or disability, but prior to July 1, 2017. Under current law, such children are not eligible unless they were adopted pursuant to a preadoptive agreement entered into prior to the death or disability. This bill is identical to SB 40.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 51	Virginia HB 51 (2020)	bill		enacted	Barry D. Knight	4	34	8	2019-11-25	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/1f0e05bc-0d4c-4db2-a43f-facd3752c6d2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB51	13985f6d229edf40086422f7c681e8cd2098be4f7074168861866d254ce8ef4c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 51 (2020) — Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents.

Line of Duty Act; eligible dependents. Provides that children born or adopted after the death or disability of an employee covered by the Line of Duty Act are eligible for health insurance coverage if their birth or adoption occurred after the time of the employee's death or disability, but prior to July 1, 2017. Under current law, such children are not eligible unless they were adopted pursuant to a preadoptive agreement entered into prior to the death or disability. This bill is identical to SB 40.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB51ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB51H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (HB51) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
• David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-25 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101307D introduction
• 2019-11-25 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Assigned PS sub: Public Safety referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB51)
• 2020-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-23 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-01-24 Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-24 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-24 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-29 Committee substitute printed 20106850D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20106850D-H1
• 2020-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB51H1
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-05 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB51H1)
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled
• 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB51ER)
• 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-26 Signed by President
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f0e05bc-0d4c-4db2-a43f-facd3752c6d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).