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type: "Bill"
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title: "Environmental Justice, Virginia Council on; established."
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description: "Virginia Council on Environmental Justice; established. Establishes the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice, consisting of 24 members, to advise the Governor and provide recommendations intended to protect vulnerable communities from disproportionate impacts of pollution and provide such communities meaningful involvement in the decision-making process. The bill provides that 18 members of the Council are appointed by the Governor and six are specified Cabinet Secretaries. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2023."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 1042"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1042 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Charniele L. Herring"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2020-01-07"
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last_action: "2020-03-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c21c6e51-9b83-4928-b40f-a1cdfec6c7ec"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1042"
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source_hash: "c2bd64a7f5efcc6a0cfae45e859f8951fdd0c8e916f7d2d9363aa1ee875cef9a"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1042 (2020) — Environmental Justice, Virginia Council on; established.
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Virginia Council on Environmental Justice; established. Establishes the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice, consisting of 24 members, to advise the Governor and provide recommendations intended to protect vulnerable communities from disproportionate impacts of pollution and provide such communities meaningful involvement in the decision-making process. The bill provides that 18 members of the Council are appointed by the Governor and six are specified Cabinet Secretaries. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2023.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0113)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0113)
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2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1042ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1042ER)
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3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1042H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1042H1)
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4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1042)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1042)
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## Votes
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- Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) — **25–15** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N) — **54–43** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N) — **10–5** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — **6–2** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from General Laws with substitute (15-Y 7-N) — **15–7** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)
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- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104846D `introduction`
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- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-15** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Adminstrative Process `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB1042)
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- **2020-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
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- **2020-01-28** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
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- **2020-01-28** Committee substitute printed 20106374D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2020-01-28** Reported from General Laws with substitute (15-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 20106374D-H1
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- **2020-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1042H1
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- **2020-02-03** Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-02-03** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N)
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- **2020-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2020-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB1042H1)
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- **2020-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) `passage`
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- **2020-02-20** Enrolled
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- **2020-02-20** Signed by Speaker
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- **2020-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (HB1042ER)
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- **2020-02-21** Signed by President
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- **2020-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2020
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- **2020-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 3, 2020
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- **2020-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 113 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c21c6e51-9b83-4928-b40f-a1cdfec6c7ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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