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| Bill | MEI Project Approval Commission; changes to membership and operation. | MEI Project Approval Commission. Makes several changes to the membership and operation of the MEI Project Approval Commission. The bill expands the membership from 10 to 14 members by adding two additional House appointments and two additional Senate appointments. The bill also clarifies the scope of the review required by the Commission to include not only economic development projects, but also potential film and episodic television projects, while providing that projects only involving existing tax incentives currently available to any qualified tax payer shall not require review. Materials regarding the potential project shall be provided to the staff of the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations five business days in advance of the Commission's review meeting. This bill incorporates SB 970. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 587 | Virginia SB 587 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 587 (2020) — MEI Project Approval Commission; changes to membership and operation.
MEI Project Approval Commission. Makes several changes to the membership and operation of the MEI Project Approval Commission. The bill expands the membership from 10 to 14 members by adding two additional House appointments and two additional Senate appointments. The bill also clarifies the scope of the review required by the Commission to include not only economic development projects, but also potential film and episodic television projects, while providing that projects only involving existing tax incentives currently available to any qualified tax payer shall not require review. Materials regarding the potential project shall be provided to the staff of the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations five business days in advance of the Commission's review meeting. This bill incorporates SB 970.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0830) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB587ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB587) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB587S1) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Rules with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules with amendments (17-Y 0-N) — 17–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N) — 93–6 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)
- Janet D. Howell — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100268D
introduction - 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Rules
referral-committee - 2020-02-07 Reported from Rules with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-07 Incorporates SB970 (Howell)
- 2020-02-07 Committee substitute printed 20108010D-S1
substitution - 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (SB587)
- 2020-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (SB587S1)
- 2020-02-11 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
- 2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20108010D-S1
- 2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB587S1
- 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 Rules
referral-committee - 2020-02-19 Reported from Rules with amendments (17-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-21 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-24 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-24 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2020-02-24 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2020-02-24 Passed House with amendments (94-Y 6-N)
passage - 2020-02-24 VOTE: Passage (94-Y 6-N)
- 2020-02-26 House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-03 Enrolled
- 2020-03-03 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB587ER)
- 2020-03-04 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
- 2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 830 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ddf8f0a4-b6c0-4985-8a06-bcbbc5c99dbc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).