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Bill Continuity of government; extends period of time that locality may provide after disaster, etc. Continuity of government. Extends fromsix to 12 months the period of time after an enemy attack or otherdisaster that a locality may, by ordinance, provide for a method toassure continuity in its government and requires the ordinance toprovide a method for the locality to resume normal governmentalauthority by the end of that 12-month period. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 SB 1208 Virginia SB 1208 (2021)
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Virginia SB 1208 (2021) — Continuity of government; extends period of time that locality may provide after disaster, etc.

Continuity of government. Extends fromsix to 12 months the period of time after an enemy attack or otherdisaster that a locality may, by ordinance, provide for a method toassure continuity in its government and requires the ordinance toprovide a method for the locality to resume normal governmentalauthority by the end of that 12-month period.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0295 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102240D (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB1208ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — 00 (fail) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 1-N) — 191 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N) — 926 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) — 141 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • George L. Barker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102240D introduction
  • 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
  • 2021-01-18 Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-01-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-01-20 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2021-01-21 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 Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
  • 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
  • 2021-02-19 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-23 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-02-24 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-24 Passed House (93-Y 6-N) passage
  • 2021-02-24 VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N)
  • 2021-02-26 Enrolled
  • 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
  • 2021-02-27 Signed by President
  • 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
  • 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 295 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bcabfdd-8ae3-483f-85b7-90a34ba137da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).