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type: "Bill"
title: "Public school buildings; school board shall maintain water mgmt. program to prevent Legionnaires'."
description: "Public school buildings; testing for Legionellabacteria; review; report. Requires each school board to testeach public school building in the local school division for thepresence of Legionella bacteria at such regular intervals as theschool board deems necessary to maintain the health and decency ofsuch buildings. The bill requires the Department of Education tomake recommendations for the frequency of testing for the presence of Legionella bacteria in public school buildings and to notifyeach local school board of its recommendations no later than September1, 2020. The bill also requires each public elementary and secondaryschool to maintain files of its Legionella bacteria test resultsand make such files available for review and the division superintendentto report such results to the Department of Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 410"
citation: "Virginia SB 410 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ghazala F. Hashmi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 13
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/087ef9c9-2a64-4988-97f9-1512b9e83084"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB410"
source_hash: "a59449e36e937cde931ceb3313411634d17efe063cbe48f27649d866ba5bd551"
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 SB 410 (2020) — Public school buildings; school board shall maintain water mgmt. program to prevent Legionnaires'.
Public school buildings; testing for Legionellabacteria; review; report. Requires each school board to testeach public school building in the local school division for thepresence of Legionella bacteria at such regular intervals as theschool board deems necessary to maintain the health and decency ofsuch buildings. The bill requires the Department of Education tomake recommendations for the frequency of testing for the presence of Legionella bacteria in public school buildings and to notifyeach local school board of its recommendations no later than September1, 2020. The bill also requires each public elementary and secondaryschool to maintain files of its Legionella bacteria test resultsand make such files available for review and the division superintendentto report such results to the Department of Health.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0776)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB410ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB410ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB410)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB410)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB410S1)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB410S1)
## Votes
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — **53** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 5-N) — **155** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendments (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (88-Y 9-N) — **879** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104248D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Impact statement from DPB (SB410)
- **2020-01-30** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Committee substitute printed 20106036D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-30** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB410S1)
- **2020-02-06** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-11** Committee substitute agreed to 20106036D-S1
- **2020-02-11** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB410S1
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-11** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- **2020-02-17** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2020-02-19** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Education with amendments (15-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-28** Reported from Appropriations with amendments (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Committee on Education amendments agreed to
- **2020-03-04** Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
- **2020-03-04** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-03-04** Passed House with amendments (88-Y 9-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** VOTE: Passage (88-Y 9-N)
- **2020-03-05** House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled
- **2020-03-12** Impact statement from DPB (SB410ER)
- **2020-03-12** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-17** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
- **2020-03-17** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 776 (effective - see bill) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/087ef9c9-2a64-4988-97f9-1512b9e83084`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).