---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Resources Authority; community development and housing projects."
description: "Virginia Resources Authority; community development and housing projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1401"
citation: "Virginia SB 1401 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lewis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9885a8e3-97d2-4744-a29c-f34e848d4827"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1401"
source_hash: "050522dd5472ac0c7ec5f37f4639df704c44ebda20a2ed0d5e69af237b2ed157"
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 1401 (2023) — Virginia Resources Authority; community development and housing projects.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0441** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0441)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103834D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1401)
3. **SB1401ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1401ER)
4. **SB1401S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1401S1)

## Votes

- Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103834D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB1401)
- **2023-01-24** Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Rereferred to General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-01** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Committee substitute printed 23105058D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Substitute bill reprinted 23105058D-S1
- **2023-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB1401S1)
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 23105058D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1401S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Reported from General Laws (22-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 (SB1401ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB1401ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9885a8e3-97d2-4744-a29c-f34e848d4827`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).