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type: "Bill"
title: "Opioid Abatement Authority; established, Fund created, report, membership."
description: "Establishing an Opioid Abatement Authority.Establishes the Opioid Abatement Authority. The Authority, with theassistance of the Office of the Attorney General, would administerthe Opioid Abatement Fund, which would receive moneys from settlements,judgments, verdicts, and other court orders, or related agreements,concerning claims regarding the manufacturing, marketing, distribution,or sale of opioids that would be used to provide grants and loans to Virginia agencies and certain localities for the purpose of treating, preventing, and reducing opioid use disorder and the misuse of opioidsin the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1469"
citation: "Virginia SB 1469 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 51
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2021-01-22"
last_action: "2021-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdd34db3-edfd-465f-8cb4-ad7b211db92e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1469"
source_hash: "a7f06fd849682d29688fa45b32aa6af84488a2c861d10798e665c8b64422b9e6"
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 1469 (2021) — Opioid Abatement Authority; established, Fund created, report, membership.
Establishing an Opioid Abatement Authority.Establishes the Opioid Abatement Authority. The Authority, with theassistance of the Office of the Attorney General, would administerthe Opioid Abatement Fund, which would receive moneys from settlements,judgments, verdicts, and other court orders, or related agreements,concerning claims regarding the manufacturing, marketing, distribution,or sale of opioids that would be used to provide grants and loans to Virginia agencies and certain localities for the purpose of treating, preventing, and reducing opioid use disorder and the misuse of opioidsin the Commonwealth.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0307** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0307)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21104375D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1469S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 21200113D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1469H1)
4. **Presented and ordered printed 21103486D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1469)
5. **SB1469ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1469ER)
6. **SB1469ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1469ES1)
## Votes
- Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws — **00** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 0-N 2-A) — **360** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (91-Y 7-N) — **907** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N 3-A) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N 2-A) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — **202** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N 1-A) — **038** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Agreed To (90-Y 7-N) — **897** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- George L. Barker — primary (person)
- Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-22** Presented and ordered printed 21103486D `introduction`
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB1469)
- **2021-02-03** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-02-03** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N 2-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Committee substitute printed 21104375D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 21104375D-S1
- **2021-02-04** Reading of amendment waived
- **2021-02-04** Amendment by Senator Barker agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1469ES1
- **2021-02-04** Printed as engrossed 21104375D-ES1
- **2021-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB1469ES1)
- **2021-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB1469S1)
- **2021-02-05** Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 0-N 2-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws
- **2021-02-11** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-02-11** Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Committee substitute printed 21200113D-H1 `substitution`
- **2021-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB1469H1)
- **2021-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Committee substitute agreed to 21200113D-H1
- **2021-02-16** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1469H1
- **2021-02-16** Passed House with substitute (91-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** VOTE: Passage (91-Y 7-N)
- **2021-02-18** House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N 1-A)
- **2021-02-19** House insisted on substitute
- **2021-02-19** House requested conference committee
- **2021-02-23** Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-23** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2021-02-24** Conferees appointed by House
- **2021-02-27** Amended by conference committee
- **2021-02-27** Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N 3-A)
- **2021-02-27** Conference report agreed to by House (90-Y 7-N)
- **2021-02-27** VOTE: Agreed To (90-Y 7-N)
- **2021-03-09** Enrolled
- **2021-03-09** Signed by President
- **2021-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB1469ER)
- **2021-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-15** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- **2021-03-15** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 307 (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/bdd34db3-edfd-465f-8cb4-ad7b211db92e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).