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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency and quarantine orders, certain; additional procedural requirements."
description: "Certain emergency and quarantine orders; additional procedural requirements. Provides that any person who is affectedby an order of quarantine may file an appeal in the circuit courtfor the city or county in which he resides or is located or the circuitcourt for the jurisdiction or jurisdictions for any affected area;currently, only a person who is subject to an order of quarantinemay appeal the order. The bill also provides that, in any case inwhich the Governor has issued an emergency order that includes anymeasure that closes schools or businesses or restricts the movementof healthy persons within the area to which the order applies, allof the rights, protections, and procedures applicable in the caseof an order of quarantine issued by the Commissioner of Health shallapply."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Virginia SB 46 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2021-12-28"
last_action: "2022-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f25860a6-3312-404b-936b-0f6c8c609536"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB46"
source_hash: "6fb7a721de84d4286132d0e41fadcee3a58aa295a458887888566e783af87b90"
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 46 (2022) — Emergency and quarantine orders, certain; additional procedural requirements.
Certain emergency and quarantine orders; additional procedural requirements. Provides that any person who is affectedby an order of quarantine may file an appeal in the circuit courtfor the city or county in which he resides or is located or the circuitcourt for the jurisdiction or jurisdictions for any affected area;currently, only a person who is subject to an order of quarantinemay appeal the order. The bill also provides that, in any case inwhich the Governor has issued an emergency order that includes anymeasure that closes schools or businesses or restricts the movementof healthy persons within the area to which the order applies, allof the rights, protections, and procedures applicable in the caseof an order of quarantine issued by the Commissioner of Health shallapply.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0785** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0785)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106262D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB46S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100560D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB46)
4. **SB46ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB46ER)
5. **SB46ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB46ER2)
## Votes
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N) — **5245** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 and #2 (39-Y 1-N) — **391** (pass) · upper
- Senate rejected Governor's recommendation #3 (3-Y 37-N) — **337** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 42-N) — **5442** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **160** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules (13-Y 5-N) — **135** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100560D `introduction`
- **2021-12-28** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB46)
- **2022-01-21** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-08** Committee substitute printed 22106262D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-08** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 22106262D-S1
- **2022-02-10** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB46S1
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB46S1)
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Rules (13-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed House (53-Y 45-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB46ER)
- **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** Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 and #2 (39-Y 1-N)
- **2022-04-27** Senate rejected Governor's recommendation #3 (3-Y 37-N)
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 and #2 (55-Y 42-N)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (55-Y 42-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted in-part
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (SB46ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
- **2022-04-27** Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
- **2022-04-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
- **2022-05-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 785 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f25860a6-3312-404b-936b-0f6c8c609536`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).