republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-389.md

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Bill	Autism Advisory Council; reestablished, report.	Autism Advisory Council; reestablished. Reestablishes the Autism Advisory Council, which expired July 1, 2022. The bill also increases from eight to 25 the number of Council members, establishes eligibility criteria for nonlegislative citizen members, and provides that no recommendation of the Council shall be adopted if a majority of the legislative members appointed to the Council vote against the recommendation and for the recommendation to fail notwithstanding the majority vote of the Council. The law prior to expiration of the Council provided that no Council recommendation could be adopted if a majority of the House members or Senate members voted against the recommendation and for the recommendation to fail notwithstanding the majority vote of the Council. The bill has a sunset date of July 1, 2027.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 389	Virginia SB 389 (2024)	bill		enacted	Stella G. Pekarsky	3	29	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1305099c-c348-4080-acb3-2ae92663ca23	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB389	1db5e30751162fa19100a5d3ae66436b4343e998a45a3cfb6437a42752c27f89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 389 (2024) — Autism Advisory Council; reestablished, report.

Autism Advisory Council; reestablished. Reestablishes the Autism Advisory Council, which expired July 1, 2022. The bill also increases from eight to 25 the number of Council members, establishes eligibility criteria for nonlegislative citizen members, and provides that no recommendation of the Council shall be adopted if a majority of the legislative members appointed to the Council vote against the recommendation and for the recommendation to fail notwithstanding the majority vote of the Council. The law prior to expiration of the Council provided that no Council recommendation could be adopted if a majority of the House members or Senate members voted against the recommendation and for the recommendation to fail notwithstanding the majority vote of the Council. The bill has a sunset date of July 1, 2027. 

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0708 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104648D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB389ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rules (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stella G. Pekarsky — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
• Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104648D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Rules (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (SB389)
• 2024-01-31 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Assigned Rules sub: Studies Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Rules (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB389ER) passage
• 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB389ER)
• 2024-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-08 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1305099c-c348-4080-acb3-2ae92663ca23. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).