SB98
Emergency management; work group to evaluate existing needs in the Commonwealth, report.
Status:
In House
Latest Action:
Feb. 18, 2026
House: Assigned HAPP sub: Transportation & Public Safety
Chief Patron:
Bill Stanley (R)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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, review alternative funding models for such needs in other states, and to report the work group's findings and recommendations to the Chairs ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 12/31/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100061D
- 12/31/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/22/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB98)
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/05/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26107045D-S1
- 02/06/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB98)
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/18/2026 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/18/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/18/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/18/2026 - House: Assigned HAPP sub: Transportation & Public Safety
