---
type: "Bill"
title: "Broadband capacity; expands existing pilot program, municipal broadband authorities."
description: "Pilot program for broadband capacity; municipalbroadband authorities. Expands the existing broadband pilotprogram to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-ownedbroadband authorities in order to provide broadband service to unservedareas of the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1334"
citation: "Virginia SB 1334 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John S. Edwards"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d7f163d-9cf6-4c77-a905-aa892f40fc7e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1334"
source_hash: "5a07634c84ddbfaf899b6947f940dde7ec06f9e90b366249da615f716d53dcb1"
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 1334 (2021) — Broadband capacity; expands existing pilot program, municipal broadband authorities.

Pilot program for broadband capacity; municipalbroadband authorities. Expands the existing broadband pilotprogram to allow for the participation of municipalities and government-ownedbroadband authorities in order to provide broadband service to unservedareas of the Commonwealth.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0357** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0357)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101476D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1334)
3. **SB1334ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1334ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 1-N) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John S. Edwards — primary (person)
- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101476D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Impact statement from SCC (SB1334)
- **2021-01-25** Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce
- **2021-02-11** Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-21** Impact statement from SCC (SB1334ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 357 (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/8d7f163d-9cf6-4c77-a905-aa892f40fc7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).