Virginia 2023, 1st Special Session Status: Enacted

SB 1291 — False emergency communication to emergency personnel; false information, penalties, report.

Last action — Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House of Delegates
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 10, 2023. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Glenn Youngkin (Republican) on March 16, 2023.

Prognosis

Advancing 36% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • Failed a recorded vote

    Failed 6 recorded votes so far — a real headwind.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)

  2. Approved by Governor-Chapter 23 (effective 7/1/23)

  3. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023

  4. Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023

  5. Signed by President

  6. Signed by Speaker

  7. Impact statement from DPB (SB1291ER)

  8. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1291ER)

  9. Enrolled

  10. VOTE: Passage (88-Y 8-N)

  11. Passed House (88-Y 8-N)

  12. Read third time

  13. Read second time

  14. Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 3-N)

  15. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

  16. Read first time

  17. Placed on Calendar

  18. Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)

  19. Impact statement from DPB (SB1291S1)

  20. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1291S1

  21. Committee substitute agreed to 23105682D-S1

  22. Reading of substitute waived

  23. Read second time

  24. Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)

  25. Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)

  26. Impact statement from VCSC (SB1291S1)

  27. Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations

  28. Committee substitute printed 23105682D-S1

  29. Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 2-N)

  30. Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

  31. Impact statement from DPB (SB1291)

  32. Impact statement from VCSC (SB1291)

  33. Referred to Committee on the Judiciary

  34. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103560D

Sponsorship breakdown

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0 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 148 not signed on

Sponsors (0)

None.

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (148)

148 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Subjects

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