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type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Compensation, Commission on; increases membership, powers and duties."
description: "Commission on Unemployment Compensation; membership; compensation; powers and duties. Adds two nonlegislative citizen members to the membership of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation and transfers the powers and duties of the subcommittee on unemployment insurance, which is removed by the bill, to the Commission. The bill provides that existing nonlegislative members of the subcommittee on unemployment compensation shall serve as the two nonlegislative citizen members added to the Commission until July 1, 2026, and thereafter, one such member shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and one by the Senate Committee on Rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 878"
citation: "Virginia SB 878 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-03"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a3f0efd-7b32-44f3-9ea0-7d32063d7afd"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB878"
source_hash: "d8ea839429ef129d04ca20dcc0119c37ec286ecee664cba12767a099c5860795"
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 878 (2025) — Unemployment Compensation, Commission on; increases membership, powers and duties.
Commission on Unemployment Compensation; membership; compensation; powers and duties. Adds two nonlegislative citizen members to the membership of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation and transfers the powers and duties of the subcommittee on unemployment insurance, which is removed by the bill, to the Commission. The bill provides that existing nonlegislative members of the subcommittee on unemployment compensation shall serve as the two nonlegislative citizen members added to the Commission until July 1, 2026, and thereafter, one such member shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates and one by the Senate Committee on Rules.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013690.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077676.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066760.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (60-Y 38-N) — **6038** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules (17-Y 0-N) — **170** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100833D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB878)
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-20** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Rules (17-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20** Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed House (60-Y 38-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB878ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB878)
- **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** Approved by Governor-Chapter 592 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a3f0efd-7b32-44f3-9ea0-7d32063d7afd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).