republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-410.md

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Bill	Public school buildings; school board shall maintain water mgmt. program to prevent Legionnaires'.	Public school buildings; testing for Legionellabacteria; review; report. Requires each school board to testeach public school building in the local school division for thepresence of Legionella bacteria at such regular intervals as theschool board deems necessary to maintain the health and decency ofsuch buildings. The bill requires the Department of Education tomake recommendations for the frequency of testing for the presence of Legionella bacteria in public school buildings and to notifyeach local school board of its recommendations no later than September1, 2020. The bill also requires each public elementary and secondaryschool to maintain files of its Legionella bacteria test resultsand make such files available for review and the division superintendentto report such results to the Department of Health.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 410	Virginia SB 410 (2020)	bill		enacted	Ghazala F. Hashmi	4	45	13	2020-01-07	2020-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/087ef9c9-2a64-4988-97f9-1512b9e83084	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB410	a59449e36e937cde931ceb3313411634d17efe063cbe48f27649d866ba5bd551	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 410 (2020) — Public school buildings; school board shall maintain water mgmt. program to prevent Legionnaires'.

Public school buildings; testing for Legionellabacteria; review; report. Requires each school board to testeach public school building in the local school division for thepresence of Legionella bacteria at such regular intervals as theschool board deems necessary to maintain the health and decency ofsuch buildings. The bill requires the Department of Education tomake recommendations for the frequency of testing for the presence of Legionella bacteria in public school buildings and to notifyeach local school board of its recommendations no later than September1, 2020. The bill also requires each public elementary and secondaryschool to maintain files of its Legionella bacteria test resultsand make such files available for review and the division superintendentto report such results to the Department of Health.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB410ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB410) (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB410S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 5-N) — 15–5 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with amendments (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (88-Y 9-N) — 87–9 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104248D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Assigned Education sub: Public Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB410)
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20106036D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-30 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB410S1)
• 2020-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20106036D-S1
• 2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB410S1
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-11 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-14 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
• 2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-02-19 Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-28 Reported from Appropriations with amendments (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 Committee on Education amendments agreed to
• 2020-03-04 Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
• 2020-03-04 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2020-03-04 Passed House with amendments (88-Y 9-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 9-N)
• 2020-03-05 House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled
• 2020-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (SB410ER)
• 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 776 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/087ef9c9-2a64-4988-97f9-1512b9e83084. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).