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| Bill | School boards; board required to post on its website the COVID-19 virus mitigation plan. | School boards; websites; COVID-19 virus mitigation plan; emergency. Requires each school board to post in a publicly accessible and conspicuous location on its website the plan outlining its strategies for mitigating the spread and public health risk of the COVID-19 virus, consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Virginia Department of Health mitigation recommendations, that the school board is required to submit to the Department of Education before reopening schools in accordance with Phase II and III guidelines pursuant to the June 8, 2020, order of the State Health Commissioner. The bill contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020specialI | SB 5083 | Virginia SB 5083 (2020specialI) |
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enacted | 3 | 28 | 6 | 2020-08-17 | 2020-10-21 | openstates | ocd-bill/49d97d0c-1c7b-4686-84e5-b89d647e73d4 | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+SB5083 | ebc91f294690397ed53c0af0a35d2c8eb630e2d3a89691c8fa838eb5fff2720c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia SB 5083 (2020specialI) — School boards; board required to post on its website the COVID-19 virus mitigation plan.
School boards; websites; COVID-19 virus mitigation plan; emergency. Requires each school board to post in a publicly accessible and conspicuous location on its website the plan outlining its strategies for mitigating the spread and public health risk of the COVID-19 virus, consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Virginia Department of Health mitigation recommendations, that the school board is required to submit to the Department of Education before reopening schools in accordance with Phase II and III guidelines pursuant to the June 8, 2020, order of the State Health Commissioner. 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 (CHAP0009) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB5083ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB5083) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (34-Y 0-N) — 34–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-08-17 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200733D
introduction - 2020-08-17 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2020-08-19 Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-08-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB5083)
- 2020-08-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-08-26 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-08-27 Read third time and passed Senate (34-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-09-17 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-09-17 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-09-17 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2020-09-17 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-09-25 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-09-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-09-25 Passed by for the day
- 2020-09-29 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-09-29 Amendment by Delegate Wilt agreed to
amendment-passage - 2020-09-29 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2020-09-29 Passed House with amendment (98-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-09-29 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 2020-10-02 House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 2020-10-07 Enrolled
- 2020-10-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB5083ER)
- 2020-10-07 Signed by President
- 2020-10-07 Signed by Speaker
- 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 9 (effective 10/21/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49d97d0c-1c7b-4686-84e5-b89d647e73d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).