---
type: "Bill"
title: "Inmate workforces; eligibility for voluntary participation."
description: "Inmate workforces; eligibility for voluntary participation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1935"
citation: "Virginia HB 1935 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Prisons and Other Methods of Correction", "Sheriffs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher E. Collins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-06"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2522f544-0169-419c-819c-887312a6e0e3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1935"
source_hash: "e3c216fb0e762de14daaf5376b1b7ffef3fdeb77873822254d6c61d6f7e82e8f"
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 1935 (2019) — Inmate workforces; eligibility for voluntary participation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0199)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0199)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1935AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1935)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1935ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1935ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102630D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1935)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102630D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1935E)

## Votes

- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102630D `introduction`
- **2019-01-06** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned MPPS sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-23** Engrossed by House as amended HB1935E
- **2019-01-23** Printed as engrossed 19102630D-E
- **2019-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-01-24** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-25** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2522f544-0169-419c-819c-887312a6e0e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).