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| Bill | School Construction and Modernization, Commission on; established, report. | Commission on School Construction and Modernization established; report. Establishes the Commission on School Construction and Modernization for the purpose of providing guidance and resources to local school divisions related to school construction and modernization and making funding recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2026, with a provision that if the Commission does not receive funding in the appropriation act after its first year, it will sunset on July 1 of the following year. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | SB 888 | Virginia SB 888 (2020) |
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Virginia SB 888 (2020) — School Construction and Modernization, Commission on; established, report.
Commission on School Construction and Modernization established; report. Establishes the Commission on School Construction and Modernization for the purpose of providing guidance and resources to local school divisions related to school construction and modernization and making funding recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2026, with a provision that if the Commission does not receive funding in the appropriation act after its first year, it will sunset on July 1 of the following year.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1044) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB888ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by Senate as amended SB888E (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB888) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- House amendments rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) — 1–39 (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (87-Y 9-N) — 86–9 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rules with amendments (16-Y 2-N) — 16–2 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (89-Y 5-N) — 88–5 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103055D
introduction - 2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Rules
referral-committee - 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB888)
- 2020-01-31 Reported from Rules with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-04 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-02-04 Reading of amendments waived
- 2020-02-04 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2020-02-04 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB888E
- 2020-02-04 Printed as engrossed 20103055D-E
- 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB888E)
- 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Rules
referral-committee - 2020-02-27 Reported from Rules with amendments (16-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2020-03-02 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-03-03 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-03-03 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2020-03-03 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2020-03-03 Passed House with amendments (87-Y 9-N)
passage - 2020-03-03 VOTE: Passage (87-Y 9-N)
- 2020-03-04 House amendments rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
- 2020-03-05 House insisted on amendments
- 2020-03-05 House requested conference committee
- 2020-03-05 Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
- 2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
- 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (89-Y 5-N)
- 2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (89-Y 5-N)
- 2020-03-18 Enrolled
- 2020-03-18 Signed by President
- 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-03-20 Impact statement from DPB (SB888ER)
- 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1044 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a4d4b12-7444-497e-91ec-24057e5dafc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).