---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long-Term Employment Support and Extended Employment Services; assisting persons with disabilities."
description: "Requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to administer Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services to assist individuals with disabilities with maintaining employment. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 916"
citation: "Virginia HB 916 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Persons with Disabilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/379d6386-da21-43d9-ba41-ab3ee6fad64a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB916"
source_hash: "ee9a01dde2b1d134e7291cfba4e8f33e7a4413ae0c6786a3199f5e8828ed7b7d"
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 916 (2018) — Long-Term Employment Support and Extended Employment Services; assisting persons with disabilities.

Requires the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to administer Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services to assist individuals with disabilities with maintaining employment. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB916ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB916ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105477D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB916H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103528D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB916)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
- Brenda L. Pogge — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103528D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Committee substitute agreed to 18105477D-H1
- **2018-02-05** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB916H1
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-07** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 243 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/379d6386-da21-43d9-ba41-ab3ee6fad64a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).