Commonwealth's biennial appropriations; changing to begin in odd-numbered years.
Summary
Changing the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations to begin in odd-numbered years. Provides that the Commonwealth's biennial appropriations start on July 1 of odd-numbered years beginning with the biennial appropriation act for the period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2025. The bill requires that the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, would not be a part of any biennial appropriation act (i.e., it would be a single-year transitional budget).
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Jan 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2020
Last action Mar 3, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Jan 24, 2020
How they voted
38–1
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Jan 24, 2020
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
1
Committee
4
Feb 13, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Jan 24, 2020
Senate · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N)
Jan 21, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N)
Jan 8, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Moved from Finance to Finance and Appropriations due to a change of the committee name
Jan 7, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
Jan 7, 2020
Senate · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101477D
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Ryan McDougle
RRepublican
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