---
type: "Bill"
title: "Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; created and established, report."
description: "Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fundand Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled,Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial assistance from the Fund to certain low-income and middle-income Virginia students who are enrolled in an educational program at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher educationthat leads to an occupation in a certain high-demand field. The billcontains provisions for student eligibility, financial assistanceaward amounts, and data reporting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1405"
citation: "Virginia SB 1405 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard L. Saslaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a656ac19-cbed-4e7b-bbe4-822456bb6e03"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1405"
source_hash: "73917fbb1b5b088573d556d996b98b6e04443d7aae24c24d6f858a03d93ffa00"
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 1405 (2021) — Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; created and established, report.

Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fundand Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled,Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial assistance from the Fund to certain low-income and middle-income Virginia students who are enrolled in an educational program at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher educationthat leads to an occupation in a certain high-demand field. The billcontains provisions for student eligibility, financial assistanceaward amounts, and data reporting.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0398** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0398)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102963D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1405)
3. **SB1405ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1405ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N) — **92–7** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Education — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Richard L. Saslaw — primary (person)
- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102963D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB1405)
- **2021-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Education
- **2021-02-10** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed House (93-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-15** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N)
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1405ER)
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
- **2021-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor-Chapter 398 (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/a656ac19-cbed-4e7b-bbe4-822456bb6e03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).