---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nuclear Education Grant Fund and Program; established."
description: "Nuclear Education Grant Fund and Program; established."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1779"
citation: "Virginia HB 1779 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["O'Quinn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5f54578-6822-4eda-9a0b-29335dbed08f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1779"
source_hash: "38b3d11480300cd25fac4493ef51c261db357996317b2391bde7a2d4e2b2bdf6"
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 1779 (2023) — Nuclear Education Grant Fund and Program; established.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0508** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0508)
2. **HB1779ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1779ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102502D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1779)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 3-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- O'Quinn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102502D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB1779)
- **2023-01-25** Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Assigned App. sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-30** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 6-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-03** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1779ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1779ER)
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 508 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0508)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5f54578-6822-4eda-9a0b-29335dbed08f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).