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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1992: Emergency Management; Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security et al., to evaluate needs.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1992 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Emergency Management; Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security et al., to evaluate needs. Primary sponsor: Alex Askew (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (February 12, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security; work group; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to study existing emergency management needs and analyze sustainability of current funding, among other things, and to report the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology on or before October 1, 2025.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Alex AskewPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse95

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  2. Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  3. Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
  4. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  5. Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
  6. Engrossed by House - committee substitute
  7. Appropriations Substitute agreed to
  8. Read second time and engrossed
  9. Read first time
  10. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1992)
  11. Committee substitute printed 25105568D-H1
  12. Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)

Showing 12 most recent of 17 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source