republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-151.md

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Bill	Slavery & Subsqt. De Jure & De Facto Racial & Econ. Discrimination Against African Americans; study.	Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans; expiration. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2024, the expiration of the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans. The bill also provides for the nonlegislative citizen members of the Commission to continue to serve for the duration of the extension. This bill is identical to HB 139.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 151	Virginia SB 151 (2022)	bill		enacted	Mamie E. Locke	3	24	6	2022-01-10	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/19dd883d-ea18-470d-a59e-177137b26d84	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB151	443d377eb76f85e54ba5791e1f40305a460f1c83d8161b31b6e07445d21b5576	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 151 (2022) — Slavery & Subsqt. De Jure & De Facto Racial & Econ. Discrimination Against African Americans; study.

Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans; expiration. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2024, the expiration of the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans. The bill also provides for the nonlegislative citizen members of the Commission to continue to serve for the duration of the extension. This bill is identical to HB 139.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0587 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103882D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB151ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103882D introduction
• 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2022-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (SB151)
• 2022-01-28 Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-02 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 Assigned Rules sub: Studies referral-committee
• 2022-02-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-03 Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB151ER)
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 587 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19dd883d-ea18-470d-a59e-177137b26d84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).