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+type: "Bill"
+title: "African American cemeteries and graves; appropriations DHR."
+description: "African American cemeteries and graves; appropriations DHR."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2244"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2244 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cordoza"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf893d17-317e-4ea2-8667-2ebddf8c7737"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2244"
+source_hash: "7b741dcd1842eab72411fba83cb6db383b328b73393d2e99b673cb64c3d0a9a6"
+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 2244 (2023) — African American cemeteries and graves; appropriations DHR.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0095** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0095)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23105334D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2244H1)
+3. **HB2244ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2244ER)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101293D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2244)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cordoza — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101293D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB2244)
+- **2023-01-18** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB2244)
+- **2023-01-25** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-25** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-25** Committee substitute printed 23105334D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2244H1)
+- **2023-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 23105334D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2244H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-31** VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-02-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2244ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB2244ER)
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 95 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf893d17-317e-4ea2-8667-2ebddf8c7737`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+