republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1199.md

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Bill	Technology and Science, Joint Commission on; authority to appoint, employ, and remove staff.	Joint Commission on Technology and Science; staff; authority to appoint, employ, and remove. Authorizes the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary and determine their duties and fix their salaries or compensation within the amounts appropriated therefor. The bill removes the provision that directs the Division of Legislative Services to provide staff support to JCOTS.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1199	Virginia HB 1199 (2024)	bill		enacted	C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.	3	27	8	2024-01-10	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/bf951de6-50fe-4f06-b863-a1157f8575be	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1199	cb3449ada14eb5069a1c3c6a2077912254ddf50091716bb3ec61c46cf2e897eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1199 (2024) — Technology and Science, Joint Commission on; authority to appoint, employ, and remove staff.

Joint Commission on Technology and Science; staff; authority to appoint, employ, and remove. Authorizes the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to appoint, employ, and remove an executive director and such other persons as it deems necessary and determine their duties and fix their salaries or compensation within the amounts appropriated therefor. The bill removes the provision that directs the Division of Legislative Services to provide staff support to JCOTS.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0739 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1199ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103597D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (16-Y 6-N) — 16–6 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (68-Y 31-N) — 67–31 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103597D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB1199)
• 2024-01-22 Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (16-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-22 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (68-Y 31-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Passage (68-Y 31-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1199ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB1199ER)
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 739 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf951de6-50fe-4f06-b863-a1157f8575be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).