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Bill	Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process.	Automatic exemption of emergency relief payments during a state of emergency; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals and businesses during a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The bill further requires a financial institution receiving such payments directly from a governing body to set aside such payment as exempt from the creditor process under certain circumstances. The bill provides that, if a financial institution does not set aside such payments as exempt, the accountholder receiving such payments must claim the exemption. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020specialI	HB 5068	Virginia HB 5068 (2020specialI)	bill		enacted		6	44	10	2020-08-18	2020-10-28	openstates	ocd-bill/0bca660f-0d79-4f2c-8af5-9e06b6598f83	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5068	4b2834bec70ed744feee4b19c6e5c341af586acbeec8c55527f49ae251b6e16c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 5068 (2020specialI) — Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process.

Automatic exemption of emergency relief payments during a state of emergency; emergency. Automatically exempts from the creditor process emergency relief payments, as defined in the bill, paid to individuals and businesses during a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The bill further requires a financial institution receiving such payments directly from a governing body to set aside such payment as exempt from the creditor process under certain circumstances. The bill provides that, if a financial institution does not set aside such payments as exempt, the accountholder receiving such payments must claim the exemption. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0039) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5068ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5068H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5068H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed by Senate- floor substitute HB5068S2 (committee substitute) — source
6. HB5068S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate insisted on substitute (34-Y 2-N) — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Agreed To (83-Y 14-N) — 82–14 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: (82-Y 16-N) — 81–16 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 2-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 4-N) — 36–4 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Rejected (66-Y 27-N) — 65–27 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N) — 36–3 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

• 2020-08-18 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200825D introduction
• 2020-08-18 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-08-18 Introduced bill reprinted 20200825D
• 2020-08-26 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-08-26 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-08-26 Committee substitute printed 20201042D-H1 substitution
• 2020-08-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-09-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-09-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20201042D-H1
• 2020-09-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5068H1
• 2020-09-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (82-Y 16-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-09-04 VOTE: (82-Y 16-N)
• 2020-09-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-09-09 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-09-16 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-09-16 Committee substitute printed 20201176D-S1 substitution
• 2020-09-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-09-24 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 2-A) committee-passage
• 2020-09-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
• 2020-10-01 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-10-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-10-01 Committee substitute rejected
• 2020-10-01 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-10-01 Substitute by Senator Petersen agreed to
• 2020-10-01 Engrossed by Senate- floor substitute HB5068S2
• 2020-10-01 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 4-N) passage
• 2020-10-01 Floor substitute printed 20201273D-S2 (Petersen)
• 2020-10-02 Senate substitute rejected by House (66-Y 27-N) (Requires 78 affirmative votes to pass)
• 2020-10-02 VOTE: Rejected (66-Y 27-N)
• 2020-10-07 Senate insisted on substitute (34-Y 2-N)
• 2020-10-07 Senate requested conference committee
• 2020-10-07 House acceded to request
• 2020-10-07 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-10-07 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-10-13 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-10-14 Conference report agreed to by House (83-Y 14-N)
• 2020-10-14 VOTE: Agreed To (83-Y 14-N)
• 2020-10-14 Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N)
• 2020-10-16 Enrolled
• 2020-10-16 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-10-16 Signed by President
• 2020-10-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
• 2020-10-21 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
• 2020-10-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 39 (effective 10/28/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bca660f-0d79-4f2c-8af5-9e06b6598f83. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).