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| Bill | Eminent domain; eliminates specific provisions for assessment of costs in certain proceedings. | Eminent domain; costs. Eliminates specific provisions for the assessment of costs in eminent domain proceedings where the condemnor is a public service company, public service corporation, railroad, or government utility corporation and provides that all costs shall be assessed in the same manner, regardless of the identity of the condemnor. The bill exempts condemnation actions for easements adjudged at less than $10,000. The bill also provides that its provisions apply only to condemnation actions filed on or after July 1, 2020. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 28 | Virginia SB 28 (2020) |
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5 | 41 | 8 | 2019-11-18 | 2020-04-22 | openstates | ocd-bill/7c0d2004-8835-4daa-8c42-04ab49581a75 | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB28 | ad6275f707babd1d53e823979435c48b0f9187f6f41c6aa05764a213a696f30c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia SB 28 (2020) — Eminent domain; eliminates specific provisions for assessment of costs in certain proceedings.
Eminent domain; costs. Eliminates specific provisions for the assessment of costs in eminent domain proceedings where the condemnor is a public service company, public service corporation, railroad, or government utility corporation and provides that all costs shall be assessed in the same manner, regardless of the identity of the condemnor. The bill exempts condemnation actions for easements adjudged at less than $10,000. The bill also provides that its provisions apply only to condemnation actions filed on or after July 1, 2020.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1244) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB28ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate as amended SB28E (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB28) (committee substitute) — source
- Reenrolled bill text (SB28ER2) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: (92-Y 0-N) — 91–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 1-N) — 13–1 (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-11-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100603D
introduction - 2019-11-18 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 (SB28)
- 2020-01-16 Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law
referral-committee - 2020-01-29 Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 1-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-03 Reading of amendments waived
- 2020-02-03 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2020-02-03 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB28E
- 2020-02-03 Printed as engrossed 20100603D-E
- 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-12 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB28E)
- 2020-02-14 Assigned Courts sub: Civil
referral-committee - 2020-02-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-28 Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-03-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-03-04 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-03-04 Passed by temporarily
- 2020-03-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-07 Enrolled
- 2020-03-07 Signed by President
- 2020-03-08 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB28ER)
- 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
- 2020-04-08 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 2020-04-22 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N)
- 2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (92-Y 0-N)
- 2020-04-22 VOTE: (92-Y 0-N)
- 2020-04-22 Governor's recommendation adopted
- 2020-04-22 Reenrolled
- 2020-04-22 Reenrolled bill text (SB28ER2)
- 2020-04-22 Signed by President as reenrolled
- 2020-04-22 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 2020-04-22 Enacted, Chapter 1244 (effective 7/1/20)
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c0d2004-8835-4daa-8c42-04ab49581a75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).