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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.
- CHAP0295 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102240D (committee substitute) — source
- SB1208ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 1-N) — 19–1 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N) — 92–6 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (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).