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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Broadband capacity; expands existing pilot program, municipal broadband authorities."
+description: "Pilot program for broadband capacity; municipalbroadband authorities. Expands the existing broadband pilotprogram to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-ownedbroadband authorities in order to provide broadband service to unservedareas of the Commonwealth."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1334"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1334 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John S. Edwards"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-01-12"
+last_action: "2021-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d7f163d-9cf6-4c77-a905-aa892f40fc7e"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1334"
+source_hash: "5a07634c84ddbfaf899b6947f940dde7ec06f9e90b366249da615f716d53dcb1"
+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 SB 1334 (2021) — Broadband capacity; expands existing pilot program, municipal broadband authorities.
+
+Pilot program for broadband capacity; municipalbroadband authorities. Expands the existing broadband pilotprogram to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-ownedbroadband authorities in order to provide broadband service to unservedareas of the Commonwealth.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0357** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0357)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101476D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1334)
+3. **SB1334ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1334ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 1-N) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John S. Edwards — primary (person)
+- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101476D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-19** Impact statement from SCC (SB1334)
+- **2021-01-25** Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce
+- **2021-02-11** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-21** Impact statement from SCC (SB1334ER)
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
+- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 357 (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/8d7f163d-9cf6-4c77-a905-aa892f40fc7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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