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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans."
+description: "Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires stateagencies to establish and maintain a comprehensive diversity, equity,and inclusion strategic plan in coordination with the Governor's Directorof Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1993"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1993 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Q. Askew"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2021-01-11"
+last_action: "2021-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfe7f194-27f1-4dcf-863f-065aac99613d"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1993"
+source_hash: "b761c27a8323aeb2d379da04f76c2db768e9b70cd9f8f0efe530a61daec9ba02"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1993 (2021) — State agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans.
+
+Duties of agencies and their appointing authorities; diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plans. Requires stateagencies to establish and maintain a comprehensive diversity, equity,and inclusion strategic plan in coordination with the Governor's Directorof Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0168** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0168)
+2. **HB1993ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1993ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102795D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1993)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (26-Y 13-N) — **26–13** (pass) · upper
+- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N) — **54–44** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws (13-Y 9-N) — **13–9** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — **6–2** (pass) · lower
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (11-Y 2-N 1-A) — **11–2** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N 1-A) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) — **24–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Q. Askew — primary (person)
+- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
+- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
+- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Don L. Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
+- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
+- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
+- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102795D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB1993)
+- **2021-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
+- **2021-01-26** Reported from General Laws (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed House (55-Y 44-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-29** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 44-N)
+- **2021-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2021-02-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-10** Reported from General Laws and Technology (11-Y 2-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-10** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-18** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-18** Passed Senate (26-Y 13-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1993ER)
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
+- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 168 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfe7f194-27f1-4dcf-863f-065aac99613d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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