---
type: "Bill"
title: "Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund; created."
description: "Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund; creation. Creates the Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible truck manufacturer that makes a capital investment of at least $397 million at a facility in Pulaski County and creates at least 777 new full-time jobs at the facility. The eligible truck manufacturer would be eligible for an aggregate of $16.5 million in grants paid out over a 10-year period if it meets such performance parameters. This bill is identical to HB 1361."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 611"
citation: "Virginia SB 611 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19e76552-0dfa-4f58-af31-7823f5edf84d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB611"
source_hash: "5ca3485424ce1f393a63dfda7633108a9aba2189d939ffa01e598933dc5a2905"
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 611 (2020) — Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund; created.

Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund; creation. Creates the Truck Manufacturing Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible truck manufacturer that makes a capital investment of at least $397 million at a facility in Pulaski County and creates at least 777 new full-time jobs at the facility. The eligible truck manufacturer would be eligible for an aggregate of $16.5 million in grants paid out over a 10-year period if it meets such performance parameters. This bill is identical to HB 1361.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0604)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0604)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB611ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB611ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB611)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB611)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Referred from Labor and Commerce — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (89-Y 8-N) — **88–8** (pass) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102801D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB611)
- **2020-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Referred from Labor and Commerce
- **2020-02-18** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-21** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-02-26** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2020-02-26** Passed House with amendment (89-Y 8-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** VOTE: Passage (89-Y 8-N)
- **2020-02-28** House amendment agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-05** Enrolled
- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB611ER)
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 604 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19e76552-0dfa-4f58-af31-7823f5edf84d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).