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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund; established."
description: "Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance GrantFund. Establishes the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance GrantFund administered by the Department of Emergency Management to providematching funds to localities to install, maintain, or repair infrastructurefor backup energy generation for emergency shelters, including solarenergy generators, and improve the hazard-specific structural integrityof shelter facilities owned by the locality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 350"
citation: "Virginia SB 350 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Louise Lucas"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f0b43db-2552-43db-b29b-89c40d1d75d2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB350"
source_hash: "2e978464b477ad8d2672308edf76a310e44ddd5d30ee37111b31653b3b3a5e67"
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 350 (2020) — Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund; established.
Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance GrantFund. Establishes the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance GrantFund administered by the Department of Emergency Management to providematching funds to localities to install, maintain, or repair infrastructurefor backup energy generation for emergency shelters, including solarenergy generators, and improve the hazard-specific structural integrityof shelter facilities owned by the locality.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0819)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0819)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB350ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB350ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB350)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB350)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- L. Louise Lucas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103507D `introduction`
- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Moved from Finance to Finance and Appropriations due to a change of the committee name
- **2020-01-21** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB350)
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** Reported from Appropriations (22-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 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 (SB350ER)
- **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
- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 819 (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/4f0b43db-2552-43db-b29b-89c40d1d75d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).