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Bill	Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency, repeals sunset provision.	Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency; repeal sunset. Repeals the sunset on the program established in 2017 that allows the Commissioner of Health to establish and operate local or regional comprehensive harm reduction programs during a declared public health emergency that include a provision for the distribution of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes and the disposal of used hypodermic needles and syringes. This bill is identical to HB 378.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 864	Virginia SB 864 (2020)	bill		enacted	Todd E. Pillion	3	23	5	2020-01-08	2020-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/3dd9f011-5212-4dce-ab1c-18e8118684da	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB864	f1b325ea09df04193cb9fc9240228f425ac29b26216fdb8cd228c87929a187e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 864 (2020) — Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency, repeals sunset provision.

Comprehensive harm reduction programs; public health emergency; repeal sunset. Repeals the sunset on the program established in 2017 that allows the Commissioner of Health to establish and operate local or regional comprehensive harm reduction programs during a declared public health emergency that include a provision for the distribution of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes and the disposal of used hypodermic needles and syringes. This bill is identical to HB 378.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0303) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB864ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (SB864) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (92-Y 5-N) — 91–5 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104765D introduction
• 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB864)
• 2020-01-24 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 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 Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Passed House (92-Y 5-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: Passage (92-Y 5-N)
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled
• 2020-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB864ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 303 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3dd9f011-5212-4dce-ab1c-18e8118684da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).