---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia-Taiwan Trade Office; Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to establish."
description: "Virginia-Taiwan Trade Office; Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to establish."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1208"
citation: "Virginia SB 1208 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reeves"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/019fe14f-ce1d-4b1f-84b0-aeebcc1e043f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1208"
source_hash: "f29248c746671c5647c92706c35b764f7b452ba340b125ed9a52c41d04a9c1ba"
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 1208 (2023) — Virginia-Taiwan Trade Office; Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority to establish.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0637** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0637)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23105130D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1208S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 23106087D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1208S2)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103365D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1208)
5. **SB1208ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1208ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (12-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Reeves — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103365D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Rereferred to Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-23** Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (12-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Committee substitute printed 23105130D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-23** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB1208S1)
- **2023-02-01** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-01** Committee substitute printed 23106087D-S2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB1208S2)
- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** Commerce and Labor Committee substitute rejected 23105130D-S1
- **2023-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 23106087D-S2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1208S2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Reported from Rules (18-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-17** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-22** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1208ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB1208ER)
- **2023-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 637 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0637)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/019fe14f-ce1d-4b1f-84b0-aeebcc1e043f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).