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SB98Introduced in the Senate

Emergency management; work group to evaluate existing needs in the Commonwealth, report.

Passed

Introduced by William Stanley, District 7

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; evaluation of emergency management needs in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to evaluate existing emergency management needs, analyze sustainability of current funding of such needs, and review alternative funding models for such needs in other states, and to report the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the House Committees on Appropriations and General Laws and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and General Laws and Technology on or before October 1, 2026. This bill is identical to HB 169.

Where it stands

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570)

April 13, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

5 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) · February 26, 2026

97

Yes

0

No

2

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each delegate voted

DelegateDistrictVote
Patrick Hope1Yes
Adele McClure2Yes
Alfonso Lopez3Yes
Charniele Herring4Yes
Kirk McPike5Yes
Richard Sullivan6Yes
Karen Keys-Gamarra7Yes
Irene Shin8Yes
Karrie Delaney9Yes
Dan Helmer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100061D

  2. Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology

  3. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB98)

  4. Senate committee offered

  5. Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

  6. Committee substitute printed 26107045D-S1

  7. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB98)

  8. Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

  9. Rules suspended

  10. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  11. Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

  12. Read second time

  13. General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to

  14. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  15. Rules suspended

  16. Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)

  17. Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (38-Y 0-N 0-A)

  18. Placed on Calendar

  19. Read first time

  20. Referred to Committee on Appropriations

  21. Assigned HAPP sub: Transportation & Public Safety

  22. Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)

  23. Read second time

  24. Passed by for the day

  25. Read third time

  26. Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)

  27. Enrolled

  28. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB98ER)

  29. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB98)

  30. Signed by Speaker

  31. Signed by President

  32. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026

  33. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  34. Approved by Governor-Chapter 570 (effective 7/1/2026)

  35. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0570)

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