---
type: "Bill"
title: "Semiconductor Manufacturing Grant Fund; created."
description: "Semiconductor Manufacturing Grant Fund; created."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2180"
citation: "Virginia HB 2180 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4d9ef16-e970-433f-9824-1d71c38f6ffd"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2180"
source_hash: "ab9a2374dd55dd2db907768322625e0ad8c9d1454fe4a18c41d74d889211f861"
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 2180 (2019) — Semiconductor Manufacturing Grant Fund; created.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0034)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2180ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2180ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102237D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2180)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **91–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nick Rush — primary (person)
- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102237D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** 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 (91-Y 5-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 34 (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/c4d9ef16-e970-433f-9824-1d71c38f6ffd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).