Virginia Senate Bill 1755 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 21 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Board of Housing and Community Development; Uniform Statewide Building Code; Statewide Fire Prevention Code; safety and security measures for schools; active shooter or hostile threats. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to convene stakeholders representing entities that enforce the Uniform Statewide Building Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code and other law-enforcement organizations to develop proposals for changes to each such code for submission to the Board of Housing and Community Development. Such proposals shall have the goal of assisting in the provision of safety and security measures for the Commonwealth's public or private elementary and secondary schools and public or private institutions of higher education for active shooter or hostile threats. The review conducted by the stakeholders shall include the examination of (i) locking devices, (ii) barricade devices, and (iii) other safety measures that may be utilized in an active shooter or hostile threat situation that occurs in any classroom or other area where students are located for a finite period of time.

USBC and SFPC; changes to Codes for safety measures for schools.

Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]

2019-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-14 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-21		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0723)
2019-03-21		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-04		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-04	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-02-22	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-22	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-22	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1755ER)
2019-02-22	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-19	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-19	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2019-02-19	House	Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
2019-02-19	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-19	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2019-02-19	House	Read third time
2019-02-18	House	Read second time
2019-02-14	House	Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2019-02-06	House	Read first time
2019-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1755S1
2019-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19105991D-S1
2019-01-31	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-01-31	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-30	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-28	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19105991D-S1
2019-01-28	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2019-01-18	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2019-01-18	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 19100912D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1755
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1755+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1755S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1755ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0723+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S12V0088+SB1755
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0248SB1755+SB1755
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0278SB1755+SB1755
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H11V0278+SB1755
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV2967+SB1755
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3010+SB1755