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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Management Equity Working Group; established."
description: "State Coordinator of Emergency Management; establishmentof Emergency Management Equity Working Group. Provides for theState Coordinator of Emergency Management to establish an EmergencyManagement Equity Working Group to ensure that emergency management programs and plans provide support to at-risk individuals and populations disproportionately impacted by disasters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1296"
citation: "Virginia SB 1296 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84969bc5-d06a-4a4a-a3fa-54f938bcfc6e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1296"
source_hash: "65260ea529609f8eebc0a99d7e077d7f1aee2c25259fd6e4e484f32e866bec1c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 1296 (2021) — Emergency Management Equity Working Group; established.
State Coordinator of Emergency Management; establishmentof Emergency Management Equity Working Group. Provides for theState Coordinator of Emergency Management to establish an EmergencyManagement Equity Working Group to ensure that emergency management programs and plans provide support to at-risk individuals and populations disproportionately impacted by disasters.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0455** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0455)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102794D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1296)
3. **SB1296ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1296ER)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage (82-Y 17-N) — **8117** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 3-N) — **193** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102794D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB1296)
- **2021-01-20** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-26** 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 Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety
- **2021-02-12** Reported from Public Safety (19-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed House (82-Y 17-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-17** VOTE: Passage (82-Y 17-N)
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB1296ER)
- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84969bc5-d06a-4a4a-a3fa-54f938bcfc6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).