republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1219.md

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Bill	Legislator Compensation Commission; established, appointment of members, report.	General Assembly; Legislator Compensation Commission established. Establishes the Legislator Compensation Commission, to be formed every four years for the purpose of reviewing the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments received by members of the General Assembly and determining whether any adjustments to salaries or allowances are needed. The 11-member Commission shall be appointed as follows: two former members of the Senate of Virginia and four former members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Joint Rules Committee, and five nonlegislative citizen members, with the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the House Minority Leader, and the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders each appointing one such member. Any adjustments made to salaries, expense allowances, or other emoluments or benefits enacted in a budget bill based upon the recommendation of the Commission shall not be effective until January 1 of the year immediately following the general election for all members of the General Assembly.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1219	Virginia SB 1219 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bryce E. Reeves	9	43	10	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/cfa002a0-b28b-461c-8c96-8b4cb0217899	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1219	a0f238263a27cbcb559d931b56688976f406119a50e2f8f7b929273734a75ff8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1219 (2025) — Legislator Compensation Commission; established, appointment of members, report.

General Assembly; Legislator Compensation Commission established. Establishes the Legislator Compensation Commission, to be formed every four years for the purpose of reviewing the salaries, expense allowances, retirement benefits, and other emoluments received by members of the General Assembly and determining whether any adjustments to salaries or allowances are needed. The 11-member Commission shall be appointed as follows: two former members of the Senate of Virginia and four former members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Joint Rules Committee, and five nonlegislative citizen members, with the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the House Minority Leader, and the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders each appointing one such member. Any adjustments made to salaries, expense allowances, or other emoluments or benefits enacted in a budget bill based upon the recommendation of the Commission shall not be effective until January 1 of the year immediately following the general election for all members of the General Assembly.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance and Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
7. House Amendments (committee substitute) — source
8. Rules Amendment (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed House with amendments (64-Y 34-N) — 64–34 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Adopt Governor's Recommendation R — 18–22 (fail) · upper
• Reported from Rules with amendment(s) (14-Y 4-N) — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• House Amendments agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N) — 37–2 (pass) · upper
• Passed House with amendments (Y-58 N-39 A-0) — 58–39 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (18-Y 22-N) — 18–22 (fail) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N 1-A) — 37–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
• Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102988D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1219)
• 2025-01-17 Reported from Rules and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (36-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-27 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-28 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-01-28 Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-28 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-01-28 Printed as engrossed 25102988D-E
• 2025-01-29 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1219)
• 2025-01-30 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Rules with amendment(s) (14-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Rules Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-20 Passed House with amendments (64-Y 34-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-20 Passed House with amendments (Y-58 N-39 A-0) passage
• 2025-02-20 House Amendments agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1219ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1219)
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (SB1219S1)
• 2025-03-25 Governor's substitute printed (SB1219S1)
• 2025-04-02 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (18-Y 22-N) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 687 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0687)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cfa002a0-b28b-461c-8c96-8b4cb0217899. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).