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type: "Bill"
title: "Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday."
description: "Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. This bill is identical to SB 601."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 108"
citation: "Virginia HB 108 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph C. Lindsey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-12-13"
last_action: "2020-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe74458b-026d-4290-abc7-4abf66baafc9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB108"
source_hash: "b5219da0679797de170cd49b3ca1646492388a95ad811fa9b19100a49c332095"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 108 (2020) — Legal holidays; Election Day, removes Lee-Jackson Day as state holiday.
Legal holidays; Lee-Jackson Day; Election Day. Designates Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. This bill is identical to SB 601.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0417)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0417)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB108ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB108ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB108)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB108)
## Votes
- Reported from Rules (14-Y 1-N) — **141** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) — **2119** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 42-N) — **5442** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules (13-Y 5-N) — **135** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Joseph C. Lindsey — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-12-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101370D `introduction`
- **2019-12-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB108)
- **2020-01-31** Reported from Rules (13-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** Read third time and passed House (55-Y 42-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-06** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 42-N)
- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-07** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Rules (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Enrolled
- **2020-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (HB108ER)
- **2020-03-03** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 417 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe74458b-026d-4290-abc7-4abf66baafc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).