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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1326: Core emergency management functions; DEM to study reliance on federal grants.

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

SB 1326 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Core emergency management functions; DEM to study reliance on federal grants. Primary sponsor: Russet Perry (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Department of Emergency Management; work groups related to the Commonwealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic; report. Directs the Department of Emergency Management to convene work groups to (i) study the reliance of the Commonwealth and its localities on federal grants for core emergency management functions, (ii) study and develop a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework to take effect during a disaster for which a state of emergency has been declared, and (iii) study and develop solutions to address breaks in technology continuity among communities across the Commonwealth during emergencies. The bill directs each work group to complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 30, 2025. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Pandemic Response and Preparedness in the Commonwealth. This bill incorporates SB 1325.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Russet PerryPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate31
Danica RoemCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30

“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. Tabled in Rules (18-Y 0-N)
  2. Referred to Committee on Rules
  3. Read first time
  4. Placed on Calendar
  5. Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  6. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  7. Rules suspended
  8. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
  9. Rules Substitute agreed to
  10. Reading of substitute waived
  11. Read second time
  12. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1326)

Showing 12 most recent of 21 actions. Full history

Sources

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