republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1098.md

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Bill	Unmanned aircraft; exempts an owner from the requirement to register.	Aircraft registration; unmanned aircraft.Exempts an owner of an unmanned aircraft from the requirement toregister aircrafts.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1098	Virginia SB 1098 (2021)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	3	23	6	2020-11-18	2021-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/71151edb-4d03-43ba-a0f8-e9122c75ebcd	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1098	8a41371103599bb2aa102561377653c565cb10ee90d82b257e014e04c9312104	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1098 (2021) — Unmanned aircraft; exempts an owner from the requirement to register.

Aircraft registration; unmanned aircraft.Exempts an owner of an unmanned aircraft from the requirement toregister aircrafts.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0046 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100624D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB1098ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (82-Y 15-N) — 81–15 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (19-Y 2-N) — 19–2 (pass) · lower
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Communications, Technology and Innovation — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-11-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100624D introduction
• 2020-11-18 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2021-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB1098)
• 2021-01-21 Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2021-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Communications, Technology and Innovation
• 2021-02-15 Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (19-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-18 Passed House (82-Y 15-N) passage
• 2021-02-18 VOTE: Passage (82-Y 15-N)
• 2021-02-22 Enrolled
• 2021-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (SB1098ER)
• 2021-02-22 Signed by President
• 2021-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-25 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
• 2021-02-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 46 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71151edb-4d03-43ba-a0f8-e9122c75ebcd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).