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| Bill | Cemeteries; acquisition of abandoned lots in cities and certain towns. | Cemeteries; acquisition of abandoned lots in cities and certain towns. Removes references to courts of equity, improves readability, and makes technical changes. The bill also removes population brackets and replaces them with the names of specific counties. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 445 | Virginia SB 445 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 445 (2020) — Cemeteries; acquisition of abandoned lots in cities and certain towns.
Cemeteries; acquisition of abandoned lots in cities and certain towns. Removes references to courts of equity, improves readability, and makes technical changes. The bill also removes population brackets and replaces them with the names of specific counties.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB445ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB445S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DHCD (SB445) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- John S. Edwards — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100287D
introduction - 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2020-01-18 Impact statement from DHCD (SB445)
- 2020-01-22 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-22 Committee substitute printed 20105766D-S1
substitution - 2020-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-01-27 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
- 2020-01-27 Committee substitute agreed to 20105766D-S1
- 2020-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB445S1
- 2020-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2020-02-14 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
referral-committee - 2020-02-18 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-20 Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-25 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-25 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-02 Enrolled
- 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-03 Signed by President
- 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
- 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 669 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b70ecebe-5e8d-45e3-a0f9-2dc3fff8391e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).