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type: "Bill"
title: "Technology, Secretary of; transfer of duties to Secretaries of Administration & Commerce and Trade."
description: "Secretary of Technology; transfer of duties to the Secretaries of Administration and Commerce and Trade. Transfers operational responsibilities of the Office of the Secretary of Technology to the Secretary of Administration and responsibilities of the Office of the Secretary of Technology related to commercialization and entrepreneurial support to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. The bill contains technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 877"
citation: "Virginia SB 877 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mamie E. Locke"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5fb0aa3-72b6-40ce-8725-9c14102ebef0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB877"
source_hash: "de74841f97f6db946e7096654d5fd9c5ab80ed284700d05633c9cc31a022fa2c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 877 (2020) — Technology, Secretary of; transfer of duties to Secretaries of Administration & Commerce and Trade.
Secretary of Technology; transfer of duties to the Secretaries of Administration and Commerce and Trade. Transfers operational responsibilities of the Office of the Secretary of Technology to the Secretary of Administration and responsibilities of the Office of the Secretary of Technology related to commercialization and entrepreneurial support to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. The bill contains technical amendments.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0738)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB877ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB877ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB877)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB877)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Referred from General Laws — **00** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102719D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB877)
- **2020-01-22** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2020-02-13** Referred from General Laws
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed by temporarily
- **2020-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-20** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-07** Enrolled
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
- **2020-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Impact statement from DPB (SB877ER)
- **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 738 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5fb0aa3-72b6-40ce-8725-9c14102ebef0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).