republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/sb-1350.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation funding; statewide prioritization process, resiliency."
description: "Transportation funding; statewide prioritizationprocess; resiliency. Adds resiliency, defined in the bill, tothe list of factors to be considered during the statewide transportationfunding prioritization process commonly known as SMART SCALE. Thebill also requires that the factors of congestion mitigation, economicdevelopment, accessibility, safety, resiliency, and environmentalquality be considered relative to the anticipated life-cycle costof the project or strategy under consideration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1350"
citation: "Virginia SB 1350 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f2e78cd-89da-4c2e-ae7d-b157692e9874"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1350"
source_hash: "516bad48b1cffc9235c1c863302e1f07ebf7f5171038a6e053a9575c77a585fa"
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 1350 (2021) — Transportation funding; statewide prioritization process, resiliency.

Transportation funding; statewide prioritizationprocess; resiliency. Adds resiliency, defined in the bill, tothe list of factors to be considered during the statewide transportationfunding prioritization process commonly known as SMART SCALE. Thebill also requires that the factors of congestion mitigation, economicdevelopment, accessibility, safety, resiliency, and environmentalquality be considered relative to the anticipated life-cycle costof the project or strategy under consideration.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0052** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0052)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103492D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1350S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101744D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1350)
4. **SB1350ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1350ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (81-Y 18-N) — **80–18** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (15-Y 6-N) — **15–6** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (12-Y 0-N 2-A) — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101744D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB1350)
- **2021-01-21** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Transportation with substitute (12-Y 0-N 2-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Committee substitute printed 21103492D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-21** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB1350S1)
- **2021-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 21103492D-S1
- **2021-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1350S1
- **2021-02-05** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation
- **2021-02-11** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-02-11** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (15-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2021-02-16** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2021-02-16** Passed House with amendment (81-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** VOTE: Passage (81-Y 18-N)
- **2021-02-18** House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (SB1350ER)
- **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 52 (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/1f2e78cd-89da-4c2e-ae7d-b157692e9874`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).