---
type: "Bill"
title: "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); eligibility."
description: "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); eligibility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2005"
citation: "Virginia HB 2005 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lashrecse D. Aird"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abdfc808-398e-468d-bb1a-06238fc8f334"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2005"
source_hash: "6c3c875171129edeaf60cff81a1c45a0ec9c1561a959c5d34bea764ce75da681"
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 2005 (2019) — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); eligibility.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0376)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2005ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2005ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101798D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2005)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **92–7** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101798D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2019-01-22** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 7-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 376 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abdfc808-398e-468d-bb1a-06238fc8f334`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).