republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-1088.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nongovernmental emergency medical services agencies; dissolution of agency."
description: "Emergency medical services agency; dissolution; return of property purchased with public funds. Provides that upon dissolution of an emergency medical services agency, any property that was in the possession of such emergency medical services agency and that was purchased using public funds shall be offered to a city or county that was served by the emergency medical services agency to be used for life-saving purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1088"
citation: "Virginia SB 1088 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9989fbc7-2169-402b-a519-1eda0969d78e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB1088"
source_hash: "98ecebebbc37ba5cd735b02f9e416a84b9fb3aa9ca5e961bd631a0146e074e6c"
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 1088 (2020) — Nongovernmental emergency medical services agencies; dissolution of agency.

Emergency medical services agency; dissolution; return of property purchased with public funds. Provides that upon dissolution of an emergency medical services agency, any property that was in the possession of such emergency medical services agency and that was purchased using public funds shall be offered to a city or county that was served by the emergency medical services agency to be used for life-saving purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0946)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0946)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1088ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1088ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1088)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1088)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB1088S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB1088S1)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — **12–2** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N) — **33–7** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (33-Y 7-N) — **33–7** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20104655D `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Introduced bill reprinted 20104655D
- **2020-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB1088)
- **2020-02-05** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 2-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Committee substitute printed 20107855D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB1088S1)
- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 20107855D-S1
- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1088S1
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (33-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Assigned HWI sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-28** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-02-28** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB1088ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 946 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9989fbc7-2169-402b-a519-1eda0969d78e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).