---
type: "Bill"
title: "STEM+C Competition Team Grant Program; established."
description: "STEM+C Competition Team Grant Program and Fund;established. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering,Mathematics, and Computing (STEM+C) Competition Team Grant Programand Fund to encourage interest in STEM+C-related subject areas andsupport STEM+C-related extracurricular team-building activities inpublic schools in the Commonwealth by providing grants to qualifiedschools, as defined in the bill, for use in establishing or supportingSTEM+C competition teams."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "Virginia SB 5 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-11-20"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46ce911b-ea4d-46eb-b68e-96e62dbb1465"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB5"
source_hash: "6d66a92f5c35d389af4690b58b8d71b9fd09827623dd37dca076c0f0fe931a99"
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 5 (2024) — STEM+C Competition Team Grant Program; established.

STEM+C Competition Team Grant Program and Fund;established. Establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering,Mathematics, and Computing (STEM+C) Competition Team Grant Programand Fund to encourage interest in STEM+C-related subject areas andsupport STEM+C-related extracurricular team-building activities inpublic schools in the Commonwealth by providing grants to qualifiedschools, as defined in the bill, for use in establishing or supportingSTEM+C competition teams.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0151** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0151)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24108265D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB5H1)
3. **SB5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB5)
4. **SB5ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB5ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
- Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-20** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100492D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-11-20** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-20** Introduced bill reprinted 24100492D
- **2024-01-11** Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-11** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB5)
- **2024-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Committee substitute printed 24108265D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB5H1)
- **2024-02-28** Passed by temporarily
- **2024-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Committee substitute agreed to 24108265D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB5H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-01** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-03-01** Title replaced 24108265D-H1
- **2024-03-06** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-06** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB5ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB5ER)
- **2024-03-06** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 151 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46ce911b-ea4d-46eb-b68e-96e62dbb1465`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).