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| Bill | Nonpublic service companies, certain; conveyance of right-of-way usage. | Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber network. This bill is identical to HB 1271. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 792 | Virginia SB 792 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 792 (2020) — Nonpublic service companies, certain; conveyance of right-of-way usage.
Conveyance of right-of-way usage to certain nonpublic service companies. Allows a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization to obtain a land use permit from the Department of Transportation to use rights-of-way to operate a wholesale open-access fiber network. This bill is identical to HB 1271.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1027) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB792ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB792) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Referred from General Laws — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 0-N 1-A) — 8–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103864D
introduction - 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
referral-committee - 2020-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB792)
- 2020-02-05 Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 0-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-18 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-18 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-18 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2020-02-18 Referred from General Laws
- 2020-02-18 Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
referral-committee - 2020-02-24 Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-26 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-27 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-27 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-02-27 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-04 Enrolled
- 2020-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB792ER)
- 2020-03-05 Signed by President
- 2020-03-05 Signed by Speaker
- 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
- 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1027 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f2bd979-314f-4e5e-a2cf-34b020f2f082. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).