republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-580.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2020; created.	Bonds for institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $279,470,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher learning. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 1246.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 580	Virginia SB 580 (2020)	bill		enacted	Janet D. Howell	3	23	5	2020-01-07	2020-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/d4244a5b-c27e-4587-93d3-6839ba04f633	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB580	af77a492c0433065ac81527e382fa1b0572de1f1ef169932408910d1c3b287db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 580 (2020) — Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Act of 2020; created.

Bonds for institutions of higher learning; emergency. Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $279,470,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher learning. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 1246.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB580ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB580) (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 Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Janet D. Howell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/08/20 20104591D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB580)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-03 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 Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-02-24 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB580ER)
• 2020-03-10 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 3/11/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d4244a5b-c27e-4587-93d3-6839ba04f633. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).