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2021 SESSION
HB 1978 Legislative Staff Development Fund; created, effective date.
Introduced by: David A. Reid | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Legislative Staff Development Fund. Establishes the Legislative Staff Development Fund (Fund) to encourage and support the professional development of legislative staff. The bill defines "legislative staff" as salaried staff of a member of the House of Delegates, Senate of Virginia, or the Division of Legislative Services. The bill increases the annual lobbyist registration fee for for-profit entities from $100 to $400 and directs the $300 increase to be deposited into the Fund for the purposes described in the bill. Under the bill, any moneys remaining in the Fund at the end of each fiscal year that have not been expended for the purposes described in the bill shall revert to the general fund and be used exclusively to fund the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council. The bill has a delayed effective date of May 1, 2022.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101025D pdf | impact statement
- 01/22/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103175D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21103175D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/11/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101025D
- 01/11/21 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/22/21 House: Reported from Rules with substitute (13-Y 5-N)
- 01/22/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103175D-H1
- 01/22/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/22/21 House: Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government
- 01/26/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/27/21 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (11-Y 7-N)
- 01/28/21 House: Read first time
- 01/29/21 House: Read second time
- 01/29/21 House: Committee on Rules substitute agreed to 21103175D-H1
- 01/29/21 House: Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
- 01/29/21 House: Amendments by Delegate Reid agreed to
- 01/29/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB1978EH1
- 01/29/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21103175D-EH1
- 02/01/21 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N)
- 02/01/21 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
- 02/02/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rules (15-Y 0-N)