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| Bill | Unemployment compensation; extends date VEC is required to establish, etc., short-time compensation. | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensation for lost wages. The bill also extends the date by which the Virginia Employment Commission is required to establish and implement such short-time compensation program from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022. The bill contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020specialI | HB 5087 | Virginia HB 5087 (2020specialI) |
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enacted | 3 | 33 | 9 | 2020-08-18 | 2020-10-21 | openstates | ocd-bill/75df45ba-0827-476d-9b7d-871be16385aa | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5087 | 8be940cf3845b5ee7285b92da46deb45801b430d014ac2fa8d81aaebb6a0b431 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 5087 (2020specialI) — Unemployment compensation; extends date VEC is required to establish, etc., short-time compensation.
Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensation program that provides employers with the option of reducing the hours worked by employees while permitting the employees whose hours are reduced to receive partial compensation for lost wages. The bill also extends the date by which the Virginia Employment Commission is required to establish and implement such short-time compensation program from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5087ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (HB5087) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage Emergency (79-Y 19-N) — 78–19 (pass) · lower
- Committee amendment reconsidered (39-Y 1-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- Defeated by Senate (27-Y 10-N) — 27–10 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-08-18 Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200548D
introduction - 2020-08-18 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
referral-committee - 2020-08-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB5087)
- 2020-08-26 Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-08-26 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2020-08-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-02 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-09-03 Passed by for the day
- 2020-09-04 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-09-08 Read third time and passed House (79-Y 19-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-09-08 VOTE: Passage Emergency (79-Y 19-N)
- 2020-09-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2020-09-09 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2020-09-16 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-09-16 Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 2020-09-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-09-25 Passed by temporarily
- 2020-09-25 Reading of amendment waived
- 2020-09-25 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2020-09-25 Defeated by Senate (27-Y 10-N)
- 2020-09-25 Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 2020-09-25 Passed by for the day
- 2020-10-01 Committee amendment reconsidered (39-Y 1-N)
- 2020-10-01 Committee amendment rejected
- 2020-10-01 Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
passage - 2020-10-07 Enrolled
- 2020-10-07 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-10-07 Signed by President
- 2020-10-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB5087ER)
- 2020-10-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
- 2020-10-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
- 2020-10-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 8 (effective 10/21/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75df45ba-0827-476d-9b7d-871be16385aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).