---
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: "SB 1255"
citation: "Virginia SB 1255 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank M. Ruff, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-05"
last_action: "2019-02-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7f2a048-e656-44da-be1d-a21bba6a4dbf"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1255"
source_hash: "23dcbb254a0f97f930aadee9d98f76991dc8b4b63657e04ece65f0142d731868"
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 SB 1255 (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 (CHAP0001)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0001)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1255ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1255ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102500D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1255)

## Votes

- Passed House — **83–16** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate — **35–5** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Frank W. Wagner — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Richard L. Saslaw — cosponsor (person)
- Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102500D `introduction`
- **2019-01-05** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-05** Introduced bill reprinted 19102500D
- **2019-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Passed House (83-Y 16-N) `passage`
- **2019-01-29** Enrolled
- **2019-01-29** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-01-29** Signed by President
- **2019-01-30** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on January 30, 2019
- **2019-01-30** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 6, 2019
- **2019-02-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1 (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/d7f2a048-e656-44da-be1d-a21bba6a4dbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).