---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; members to have small business lending experience."
description: "Virginia Small Business Financing Authority;Board of Directors; membership; small business lending experience.Requires at least five of the nine citizen members of the VirginiaSmall Business Financing Authority to have experience in small businesslending. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Auditand Review Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1830"
citation: "Virginia HB 1830 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0834b7e0-3487-41a1-a83a-2d8e281b5825"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1830"
source_hash: "008e9254c97ec919723949c1d2d975ed1d3a69a92307808ad1202051073aca56"
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 1830 (2021) — Virginia Small Business Financing Authority; members to have small business lending experience.

Virginia Small Business Financing Authority;Board of Directors; membership; small business lending experience.Requires at least five of the nine citizen members of the VirginiaSmall Business Financing Authority to have experience in small businesslending. This bill is a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Auditand Review Commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0011** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0011)
2. **HB1830ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1830ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101296D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1830)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101296D `introduction`
- **2021-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-12** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1830)
- **2021-01-19** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-22** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-25** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1830ER)
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2021
- **2021-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 26, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (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/0834b7e0-3487-41a1-a83a-2d8e281b5825`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).