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Bill	Public safety communications; evaluation of need for infrastructure updates & hardware replacements.	Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; Secretary of Finance; evaluate public safety communications infrastructure updates and hardware replacements; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretary of Finance, to evaluate the need for public safety communications infrastructure updates and hardware replacements, and the cost of meeting such need. The Secretaries shall report any findings and recommendations, including possible funding options, to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than December 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1820	Virginia HB 1820 (2025)	bill		enacted	David A. Reid	5	36	7	2025-01-06	2025-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/5414d3a4-5ec8-48b3-8828-25330c939e96	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1820	85fe5e03faab5902d3adbe3d0736c41292df44322e500e82b81dc9f4bd1fd4cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1820 (2025) — Public safety communications; evaluation of need for infrastructure updates & hardware replacements.

Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; Secretary of Finance; evaluate public safety communications infrastructure updates and hardware replacements; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretary of Finance, to evaluate the need for public safety communications infrastructure updates and hardware replacements, and the cost of meeting such need. The Secretaries shall report any findings and recommendations, including possible funding options, to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than December 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David A. Reid — primary (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• Ellen H. Campbell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101710D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-11 Assigned Approps sub: Transportation & Public Safety referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1820)
• 2025-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Committee substitute printed 25105526D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-29 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-29 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-30 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1820)
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-31 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Committee substitute printed 25107029D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-13 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-14 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (36-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1820)
• 2025-02-18 Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1820ER) passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-23 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1820)
• 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 77 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-18 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5414d3a4-5ec8-48b3-8828-25330c939e96. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).