---
type: "Bill"
title: "Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund; created."
description: "Creates the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund. A qualified e-commerce company that makes a capital investment of at least $2 billion in a major headquarters facility in Arlington County and that creates at least 25,000 new full-time jobs with an average annual wage of $150,000 will be eligible for up to $550 million in grants from the Fund. A qualified company may also be eligible for an additional $200 million in grants for creating an additional 12,850 new full-time jobs. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2356"
citation: "Virginia HB 2356 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Chris Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8417634-e6ac-4b07-808d-baaa6a8a8d9b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2356"
source_hash: "fba4dfe783b2c2aca124453a2f69473026e958d85c002d8be16fa0cd92accde9"
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 2356 (2019) — Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund; created.

Creates the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund. A qualified e-commerce company that makes a capital investment of at least $2 billion in a major headquarters facility in Arlington County and that creates at least 25,000 new full-time jobs with an average annual wage of $150,000 will be eligible for up to $550 million in grants from the Fund. A qualified company may also be eligible for an additional $200 million in grants for creating an additional 12,850 new full-time jobs. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0482)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0482)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2356ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2356ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102501D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2356)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **85–14** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **33–5** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- S. Chris Jones — primary (person)
- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Frank W. Wagner - Resigned 5/8 — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102501D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Assigned App. sub: Special Subcommittee on Amazon `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Passed by for the day
- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House (85-Y 14-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 482 (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/c8417634-e6ac-4b07-808d-baaa6a8a8d9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).