---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small Business Investment Grant Fund; changes to Fund."
description: "Small Business Investment Grant Fund; changes to Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1968"
citation: "Virginia HB 1968 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a1e7a73-969a-4a23-a5ff-d065096f1891"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1968"
source_hash: "a0a2064a66231ba422172ac9e22e37e061bcee1a39aa0bd5603c7de5212f2ee6"
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 1968 (2017) — Small Business Investment Grant Fund; changes to Fund.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0383)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0383)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1968ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1968ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101272D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1968)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101272D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 383 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a1e7a73-969a-4a23-a5ff-d065096f1891`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).