---
type: "Bill"
title: "Individuals with developmental disabilities; financial flexibility, report."
description: "Individuals with developmental disabilities; financial flexibility, report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 945"
citation: "Virginia SB 945 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Suetterlein"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e3efc9a-341b-42cd-9274-5142c4f6ae98"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB945"
source_hash: "be5c083a3d1493d620dc66fd7a7ab3cb47a7252e9e3378aebbbd86bb8215a01c"
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 945 (2023) — Individuals with developmental disabilities; financial flexibility, report.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0702** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0702)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103672D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB945)
3. **SB945ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB945ER)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Suetterlein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103672D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB945)
- **2023-01-31** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-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 (SB945ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB945ER)
- **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`
- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 702 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0702)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e3efc9a-341b-42cd-9274-5142c4f6ae98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).