republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-248.md

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Bill	Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; created, moneys accruing to Fund, etc.	Virginia Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. Establishes the Virginia Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of supporting violence intervention and prevention programs, including street outreach, hospital-based violence intervention, and group violence intervention programs. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 248	Virginia SB 248 (2020)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	5	42	8	2020-01-02	2020-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/153eb418-32fb-4d9e-a1a4-d4cee88569bc	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB248	a8a3368d22afcee429bf9299f8cad7017a60fd9ea69edc89a4138003583c7d6f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 248 (2020) — Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; created, moneys accruing to Fund, etc.

Virginia Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund. Establishes the Virginia Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund to be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of supporting violence intervention and prevention programs, including street outreach, hospital-based violence intervention, and group violence intervention programs. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0818) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB248ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB248ES1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB248) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (SB248S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) — 9–4 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) — 24–15 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (57-Y 40-N) — 56–40 (pass) · lower
• House amendments agreed to by Senate (23-Y 17-N) — 23–17 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103329D introduction
• 2020-01-02 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB248)
• 2020-01-22 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-22 Committee substitute printed 20106494D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-22 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB248S1)
• 2020-02-04 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-06 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 20106494D-S1
• 2020-02-06 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-06 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB248ES1
• 2020-02-06 Printed as engrossed 20106494D-ES1
• 2020-02-07 Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB248ES1)
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-26 Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety referral-committee
• 2020-02-28 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 3-N)
• 2020-02-28 Reported from Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-03-04 Amendments by Delegate Bourne agreed to amendment-passage
• 2020-03-04 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2020-03-04 Passed House with amendments (57-Y 40-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Passage (57-Y 40-N)
• 2020-03-05 House amendments agreed to by Senate (23-Y 17-N)
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled
• 2020-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB248ER)
• 2020-03-12 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-17 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
• 2020-03-17 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 818 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/153eb418-32fb-4d9e-a1a4-d4cee88569bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).