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type: "Bill"
title: "Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information about cases."
description: "Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residential or day program, service or facility licensed or operated by any agency of the Commonwealth, school, or summer camp currently required to report an outbreak of a communicable disease to the Department available to the public on a website maintained by the Department. Such information shall include the name of the place at which the outbreak has occurred and the number of confirmed cases of and deaths resulting from such communicable disease reported by each such place. This bill contains an emergency clause. This bill incorporates SB 5026 and SB 5105 and is identical to HB 5048."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020specialI"
identifier: "SB 5081"
citation: "Virginia SB 5081 (2020specialI)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-08-17"
last_action: "2020-10-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d78c5fda-6c2d-4204-a2e9-9ea76a6db49b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+SB5081"
source_hash: "4fa56ac1e02284f8f6f178e5069c2838ff867c37086eb0c7081c4a33a2241cfd"
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 5081 (2020specialI) — Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information about cases.
Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residential or day program, service or facility licensed or operated by any agency of the Commonwealth, school, or summer camp currently required to report an outbreak of a communicable disease to the Department available to the public on a website maintained by the Department. Such information shall include the name of the place at which the outbreak has occurred and the number of confirmed cases of and deaths resulting from such communicable disease reported by each such place. This bill contains an emergency clause. This bill incorporates SB 5026 and SB 5105 and is identical to HB 5048.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+CHAP0024)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB5081ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5081ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB5081ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5081)
4. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB5081ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5081ES1)
5. **SB5081S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5081S1)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (34-Y 0-N) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Agreed To (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate acceded to request (34-Y 2-N) — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- House amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N) — **0–38** (fail) · upper
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-08-17** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200802D `introduction`
- **2020-08-17** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-19** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-08-19** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-08-19** Committee substitute printed 20200886D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-08-19** Incorporates SB5026 (Newman)
- **2020-08-19** Incorporates SB5105 (Suetterlein)
- **2020-08-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-08-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-08-26** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-08-26** Committee substitute agreed to 20200886D-S1
- **2020-08-26** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-08-26** Amendment by Senator Barker agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-26** Emergency clause added
- **2020-08-26** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB5081ES1
- **2020-08-26** Printed as engrossed 20200886D-ES1
- **2020-08-27** Read third time and passed Senate (34-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-08-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB5081ES1)
- **2020-09-17** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-09-17** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-09-17** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2020-09-17** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-17** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-09-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-09-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-09-25** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-09-25** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-09-25** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-09-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-10-02** House amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N)
- **2020-10-07** House insisted on amendment
- **2020-10-07** House requested conference committee
- **2020-10-07** Senate acceded to request (34-Y 2-N)
- **2020-10-07** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2020-10-07** Conferees appointed by House
- **2020-10-12** Amended by conference committee
- **2020-10-14** Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-10-14** VOTE: Agreed To (97-Y 0-N)
- **2020-10-14** Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- **2020-10-16** Enrolled
- **2020-10-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB5081ER)
- **2020-10-16** Signed by President
- **2020-10-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-10-21** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
- **2020-10-21** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
- **2020-10-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 24 (effective 10/28/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d78c5fda-6c2d-4204-a2e9-9ea76a6db49b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).