---
type: "Bill"
title: "Va. Investment Performance Grant/Va. Economic Development Incentive Grant Programs; reauthorization."
description: "Va. Investment Performance Grant/Va. Economic Development Incentive Grant Programs; reauthorization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2021"
citation: "Virginia HB 2021 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew James - Resigned 5/19"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23e744c2-1677-4726-a93b-92a99e99233b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2021"
source_hash: "5866d96beeafc3679e98c3fca5ff4ba5150dc9eb113eb0672015a1fd61a380c4"
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 2021 (2019) — Va. Investment Performance Grant/Va. Economic Development Incentive Grant Programs; reauthorization.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0032)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0032)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2021ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2021ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102074D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2021)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Steve E. Heretick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102074D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled
- **2019-02-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-11** Signed by President
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
- **2019-02-12** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 32 (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/23e744c2-1677-4726-a93b-92a99e99233b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).