---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local workforce development boards; career pathways for opportunity youth, report."
description: "Local workforce development boards; career pathways for opportunity youth, report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2726"
citation: "Virginia HB 2726 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthew James - Resigned 5/19"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c164cd78-1188-4942-b2fa-c333f46184ec"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2726"
source_hash: "4cd28e78e37cf00e234d7f84928b4edf948a0a74bc60142ce547879ab0e1d506"
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 2726 (2019) — Local workforce development boards; career pathways for opportunity youth, report.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0593)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0593)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2726ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2726ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104701D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2726)

## Votes

- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 19104701D `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `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 593 (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/c164cd78-1188-4942-b2fa-c333f46184ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).